Frankenstein Island (1981)

[bunniefuu]

(Morse code beeping)

- [Man On Radio] Hey, Triggy boy.

I think we're going to
have some help up here.

There's three more balloons coming.

- [Triggy On Radio] Yeah,
I just talked to 'em

on the other channel.

Hope we have better luck than me and Ed.

- [Man On Radio] We haven't
spotted anything down there.

Did you feel that wind gust?

- [Triggy On Radio] Feel it?

I got twisted 110 degrees!

- [Man On Radio] Hey, will you guys

stop your complaining?

This wind's small potatoes
compared with what

got under Doc and those guys
trying to cross the ocean.

Their last radio contact sounded
like they'd hit a tornado.

- [Triggy On Radio] When'd you ever hear

of a tornado at sea?

- [Man On Radio] Well,
that's what Doc called it.

Sounded like his balloon
was being torn apart.

Whatever the number, it got
him real good and surrounded.

- [Triggy On Radio] Surrounded?

- [Man On Radio] The water, man.

The ocean.

Any way you shake it,
those poor guys wound up

either on it, in it, or under it.

(dramatic music)

(tense music)

- Look at this land.

I said, look at this land!

This is solid land.

The same old variety land that sustains

even the weakest mortal.

But it is not the promised land.

No.

Get on your knees, you sinner.

And pray that you've been
saved from a watery grave.

Don't forget the devil is demoralizing,

debased, and dehydrating.

And you.

You are a sinner.

That is what you are.

Hey!

- Oh, man.

Watch where you're falling.

Doc!

Doc.

- Huh?

- I'm hurt.

- Where?

It's all right.

If it wasn't, I wouldn't be able to...

I told you to grab my medical bag.

- Well, I had it, Doc,
but it slipped away.

I had Melvin by the tail.

- I guess we all panicked a little.

All right, don't use it for a while,

but try to keep it working.

- Hey, Doc.

You know, if we could find some dry wood,

we could light a fire.

Or maybe we could build a raft.

But how are we gonna make
it over these bluffs, huh?

(suspenseful music)

(Melvin barks)

Well, we've got plenty
of wood for a raft here.

- Yeah.

Dead trees are buoyant, too.

- This reminds me of
Quail Gardens in Philly.

(grunting)
(tone pulsing)

- What's the matter?

- My arm!

- Help him.

- 30 pound weight or something.

- Pull him up.

- Come on, Doc.

Get me out of this.

- I'm trying to.

Okay?

- Holy cow.

Look at this.

(suspenseful music)

- Hey!

Melvin.

(laughs)

- We crashed in a balloon, you know?

Over the ocean.

You know, a balloon?

- Well, we were blown
off course, actually.

And we were miles out there and...

Where are we?

- You are pretty.

- Oh. (laughs)

Well, my name is Curtis
and this is Paul Hadley.

And this is Mark and that's Dino.

Paul Hadley, we call him Doc
because he's, you know, uh.

(coughing)

- Come with us.

- What about your friend there?

- Come with us.

(suspenseful music)

- [Mark] Mm-hmm.

- Melvin!

Melvin!

- Dino, let's go eat.

- Look.

That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

- Yeah.

Come on.

They're ready to feed us.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

(rhythmic drumming)

- Oh, punishment's over, huh?

- Not punishment.

Initiation.

- Initiation.

I was initiated one time
at the Greyhound Lodge

during one of the worst
tornadoes that Kansas City.

(grunting)
(tone pulsing)

- Not again.

Get him up.

- It's my whole side.

- All right.

Relax, relax.

Try to work the hand.

Work it, work it, work it.

- It's never acted this way.

- It's okay?

- Yeah.

- All right?

Come on, walk.

- Okay, let's go.

Come on.

(suspenseful music)

- Hey.

What is this here?

- We're falling behind.

(girl screaming)

(dramatic music)

(electricity zaps)

- I'll fix that clown.

- Let him go.

- Hey, what happened?

- Just another attempt by
Zyrid to take one of us off.

- Zyrid?

- He tries this often, but
he's programed to weaken.

- But who is he?

- Part of a ship's crew.

Normal until they experimented on him.

- Until they experimented.

(laughing)

- You kiddos got a little problem, huh?

- I've warned you before.

You're going to be very
sorry if you don't stop this.

- Hey, hey, now.

You just take it easy.

We ain't responsible
for every little thing

that happens to ya, huh?

- Oh, no.

- You should be thankful
for the mirrors we brought.

- Yeah.

- I'll be thankful and you be careful.

(laughing)

- I suggest we get on our horses

and get out of here right now.

- Well, there's no question
they're deep into witchcraft,

so that might throw your
travel plans into reverse.

- Hey, they like us.

They're not gonna.

- Hey, look.

I don't want to press it.

- They didn't seem to care in the least

about that phenomenon with your arm.

- Oh, I got that figured.

It's when you mix a
particular place, not here,

but on the outside, that's
when the power hits you.

- The power?

- Yeah, it's sort of built in.

It's like telepathy.

- Telepathy?

- No, no, no, no.

It is like telepathy.

- What are you talking about?

- Come on, come on.

I'm gonna show you.

How's it going?

- Oh, pretty good, Curt.

- Did Dino ever tell you
about his football days?

- Football?

- [Curtis] Like the time
he scored three touchdowns.

- Against Miami.

(grunting)

- Here, let me help you.

Come here.

Stand up.

- Well?

(Melvin barking)

So watch what you say.

- If I can't ask about...

What can I ask about?

(laughing)

- Anything you want.

We got no secrets here.

We got no secrets here, have we?

- I think you'll find just the
opposite if you come with us.

- Come where?

- Not far.

Where the valleys rise to the sun.

- Okay.

(laughing)

(suspenseful music)

- You'll not be going there.

Not yet.

(laughing)

- I'll make some arrangements.

Get you an invitation up to the house.

- Invitation?

- It may take a while, may not.

(laughing)

- Do they think we're
crazy enough to eat this?

- It's probably all right.

- The other tray.

- [Doc] Hello.

- Who are you?

- I'd like to ask the same thing.

We're about as startled as you are.

- How did you get here?

- We were ballooning.

We were trying to break
a long distance record.

We came here.

- No!

Don't say where.

Shh.

You never say where.

- [Curtis] Yeah, we know about that.

It took us a while, but we found out.

- My name is Jayson.

I'm Clay Jayson.

Would you like some?

I come from...

It doesn't matter where I come from.

- How long have you been here?

- How long?

- Yeah.

- Have I been here?

How long?

Uh, how long?

Um.

Uh, 17.

This is the 17th year.

- 17th year?

- I was a captain on a schooner.

There was a storm.

The biggest storm I ever saw.

With huge waves and flung
everybody overboard.

And I clung.

I clung to a reef.

They're all gone.

All the others, they're all gone.

- You've been alone here for 17 years?

(wood clatters)

- They're all gone.

And in the deafening roar,

in monstrous surf, I saw Lenore.

My wife Lenore.

Mr. Poe.

Mr. Edgar Allen Poe had me in mind.

Do you believe that?

- [Doc] Why are you in this cell?

What have you done?

- What have I done?

What did I do?

Here, I'll show you.

Look.

No!

No!

It's too hideous.

I have given red corpuscles
enough to fill a frigate.

And they, they keep me alive

so the supply will never drop off.

Do you understand?

- You're a...

You're a donor?

- That's a good one.

Donor, yes.

It's something like that.

- I don't know who we're gonna run into,

or how many they're gonna be,

but I don't want to end up in a cell.

Do you know where I can find a
g*n or where I can steal one?

(door opening)

(tense music)

- While many demon ghosts go by,

I pray my dead Lenore shall lie

forever with unopened eye.

- This man must be
sedated from time to time.

He's dangerous.

- He didn't seem that way to me.

- When you've been around
here as long as I have,

you can start giving out opinions.

Don't concern yourself with him.

Our request for your
invitation has been granted.

- My best brandy.

The oldest in stock.

I'm Sheila Frankenstein.

- How do you do?

- Actually, it's von Helsing.

I don't prefer my married name.

- I'm Dr. Hadley.

This is Curt Ryan, and Dino, Markie.

- Keep this away from Jocko.

He wouldn't appreciate it.

- Jocko won't seek the brandy.

Not when there's rum around.

- [Doc] That's quite a
famous name you have.

- Oh, it has my deepest reverence.

- Is there any relationship
between you and, um?

- Oh, yes.

Dr. Frankenstein, my
great-great grandfather.

He originated everything on the island.

Including that power
which paralyzes the arm.

Frankenstein set many forces in action.

And in doing so, created his own law.

He still enforces it by
channeling through my husband.

- Your husband?

- Please, understand that
everything is open here.

There's nothing I wish
in any way to be hidden.

So I'll be boldly specific.

My husband was an integral part

of the Frankenstein experiments.

In the early days, the two
of them traveled far beyond

man's understanding of life and death.

So very far that an unbreakable bond

was formed between them.

It endures today with one
dead and the other alive.

Through their communication,

Dr. Frankenstein still
controls this island.

- He's pretty happy about you fellows.

- Even though he's dead?

- Being dead's no problem.

It's just the opposite.

What do you think was pulling
you here, your own free will?

- Hey, remember my mentioning to you

when the balloon was twisting?

The wind was bringing
on a different effect.

It seemed like we were
caught in some kind of power.

(laughing)

- It's true.

Your arrival is an omen.

- Yes, an omen.

- The girls like you and that
demands your helping them.

- You want us to help the girls?

- Perhaps some of you can
serve to impregnate them

in order to ensure future generations.

(laughing)

- We have accommodations,
facilities, a social life.

And you fellas have
stepped right inside of it.

- Yes, well.

I think we better get back on the track

of finding some kind of transportation.

I don't mean to seem ungrateful,

but we'd better get on
with what we have to do.

- I'm afraid that any
such action is entirely

in the hands of my husband.

- [Mark] Where is he?

- You'll see him.

Our guests will need a good night's sleep.

Unlock the rooms by the lab.

- Yes, of course.

(tense music)

- Aside.

Aside.

Your presence doesn't bother this one.

He's balanced quite well.

They're all programmed
to be perfect guards,

but some are unpredictable.

- What's happened to them?

- They've gone through
some elaborate changes.

- Caused by what?

- The quest of science.

- If they're unpredictable,
couldn't that lead to violence?

- Sometimes beyond tolerance.

In such cases, a g*n is useless

because they have no bloodstream.

They have to be literally cut
in half with a machine g*n.

They do fine, except for the eyes.

They've been using a local narcotic

which causes optic problems.

They've become severely
sensitive to light.

- [Doc] This is marvelous.

- Try it.

You'll be in for a surprise.

- I can't believe the
reading on this meter.

Our best researchers haven't dreamt

of anything even close to this.

How'd you work it out?

- Well, I didn't.

This island was originally chosen,

not simply because of its barrier bluffs,

but because it was once a landing site

for men and women of a
superior civilization.

(machine beeping)

- Nice little item.

A brain?

- Are you saying that aliens
landed here some time ago?

- Yeah, aliens.

That explains it about the girls.

- The girls are direct descendants.

Although their blood is mixed
with that of our own people.

- [Curtis] And some are more
on one side than the other.

- My husband has been bed
ridden for a long time.

This is my husband Dr. von Helsing.

The assistant to Frankenstein.

(machine beeping)

(tone pulsing)

(electricity zapping)

- I have the power.

The power of the Golden Thread.

Let the devils move.

(rhythmic drumming)

- O disciple of the 12 Lions.

Ye shall have the power.

The power shall be yours.

The power.

The power.

The power.

The power.

(tone pulsing)

- Look at that.

Holy cow.

They're the most beautiful
vegetables I've ever seen.

- Well, part of it's in the original soil.

But mostly it's due to
the nutrient compounds.

(laughing)

- Wow.

- Growth is so rapid, we
have to filter the sun.

- Really?

- Wow.

- Oh, well.

I'll let you show yourselves around now.

I'm due at the lab.

I'll be integrating
some unusual blood types

if you care to observe.

- Oh, yes.

I'd like to very much.

I think, perhaps, later
on if it's all right.

- Well, if you like
sports, they're over there.

- Oh, sports?

(laughing)

- Up, sport!

Come on, mate!

We go to the sport.

(growling)

(laughing)

Hold it, mates.

Hold it.

(laughing)

Hey, listen.

(laughing)

Gotta do it real slow and
steady to keep 'em embalmed.

(laughing)

- Hey, Jocko.

How'd you lose the eye?

- How'd I lose me eye?

- Yeah.

How'd you lose your eye?

- How did I lose me eye?

This is all they left of it, neighbor.

Get out of me way, mate.

(dramatic music)

(growling)

(grunting)

(Jocko laughs)

- [Mark] Hey, Jayson.

- Oh, Guy Devere, hast thou no tear?

Weep now when evermore.

See on yon drear and rigid beer.

Lo lies, my love.

Lenore.

- Jayson?

How do you feel, Jayson?

- Oh, yes.

Let the burial rights be read.

A funeral song be sung.

A dirge for her,

the doubly dead.

In that she died so young, so young.

- [Mark] Hey, Jayson.

Jayson.

- So young.

- [Mark] Hey, Jayson.

Don't you remember us?

We wanna help you.

- Jayson, do you feel numbness anywhere?

- In that she died so young.

- Look, I think the best bet

is to find out what the drug is.

If she'll tell me that,

I might be able to find
what I need in the lab.

- Yeah.

We better start building that raft.

- Hey, Melvin.

Been behaving yourself?

He been giving you much trouble?

- Not at all.

- I really appreciate you.

I mean, you've really been a big help.

- I love him.

- Well.

- [Mark] Dino, we're gonna
check out the cave openings,

you check out the beach, okay?

- Can you put Melvin inside for a while?

- Sure.

- You can come down to the ocean with me.

Help me collect some driftwood.

(machine beeping)

- It's good.

Good.

Exceptionally strong.

- I don't dare hope that
it will remain that way.

- Dr. Frankenstein is considering
a new plan I've worked up.

We're most optimistic about it.

- You know, when I hear
you casually mention

communicating with Dr. Frankenstein,

communicating with a dead man,

I don't know quite how to take it.

- It's not quite so
bizarre as you might think.

It's fact.

But my husband's the one who communicates.

I can get through only rarely.

I could in this case
because this particular plan

has great bearing on our future.

It promises that my husband

will be out of this bed permanently.

- When you learn of the incredible
capabilities of the mind,

you will realize how many
things fall within it.

Like the power that's
used to control the one

who attacks those girls out there.

They can only produce inferior offspring,

so a power source has been set up

which in time weakens him.

And the others you have seen, the guards,

they have no bloodstream
because they need none.

They live on psychic energy.

Dr. Frankenstein and I
learned of these things

early in our research.

- You keep referring to
work with Dr. Frankenstein.

But in the framework of time,
how can that possibly be?

- Good god, man.

Didn't she tell you?

I'm almost 200 years old.

- We know we stopped
your work and everything,

and like, we really do appreciate it.

- All right, girls.

Now here's what we want you to do.

I want you to go down to the
woods and find some logs.

Some straight logs.

You get 'em and you bring 'em back here.

Now, I want to examine them
before we go down to the beach.

Oh, and I want a few of you
to start weaving some rope.

Use the kind that supports
the roof of that hut.

That should be good
enough, don't you think?

- Yeah.

See, none of us have
ever made a raft before.

- Oh, come on, Curt.

I wouldn't worry about that.

This raft is gonna be seaworthy,

and good and strong like any ship.

(tense music)

- [Doc] There, hold that point.

Part of it's holding, but
the oscillator is slow.

(machine beeping)

- It's steady at 1,800 volts.

It should peak at about 40,000.

- Those carriers are
pretty close together.

They could be acting as a transformer.

- Yes, of corse.

Of course, it could be.

(coughing)

- [Doc] What is it?

- Just the usual.

I'm afraid continual life has
its continual ups and downs.

- His pulse has weakened considerably.

- He'll have to go back into trance

for at least three hours.

- Couldn't that be dangerous
with the voltage unsteady?

- Only the peak is fluctuating.

Indeed, I need them quite badly.

- There's something else in all this.

Something much more important

than anything you've seen so far.

Dr. Frankenstein sends
power from the other realm.

- Power?

- One that can accomplish great things.

Dr. Frankenstein, before he died,

perfected a very startling theory

which utilizes an
intermediary, a human brain,

which is a connecting
link for transmission.

- The brain is kept alive by low voltage?

- It stays on an expanded threshold.

A super-nourished state.

- How can any of us forget
the great contribution he made

by creating a human life?

Even though it was a monster.

- Yes.

Whatever happened to that creation?

- In the years...

Throughout the years the mind
of the monster never developed

though his strength never ceased.

The strength paralleled
his great urge to destroy.

We had to chain him to
the reef, underwater,

beneath the grotto.

(suspenseful music)

- Hey, you know what I'd like to do?

Grab all the air I can
and dive under the rock.

- To where?

- The ocean.

The water's salty.

That's where it's from.

Boy, I wish I had some scuba gear.

- When we pass this spot,
we keep right on going.

- Yeah?

Why's that?

- I can't say.

It's...

I can't say.

- (laughs) You know, that's
what I like about you.

You never keep any secrets.

Hey.

That looks like a form down there.

A human.

Wow, there goes my imagination.

- O disciple of the Golden Thread.

The power ye seek shall be given.

It shall be given.

The power.

The power.

The power.

The power.

(tense music)

(tone pulsing)

(electricity zapping)

O Celeste of the heavens.

O horse within the light.

I call for decrees in the
tradition we perpetuated.

(tone warbling)

- Looks like he can't move a muscle.

- [Mark] Hey, Jayson.

Jayson, listen to me.

Come on, Jayson.

Open your eyes.

We want to help you, but
you've got to help us.

Come on, Jayson.

He was better before.

(tones pulsing)

- It's not necessary to eavesdrop.

- Oh, you surprised us.

- I would expect I had.

That'll do.

- We're just looking for Doc.

We thought maybe.

- Follow me.

(electricity zapping)

(machine beeping)

- Is he all right?

- Yeah, fine.

- The raft's almost finished.

- [Doc] Hmm?

- The raft.

By tonight it'll be
loaded and ready to go.

- Wait a minute.

- You know, Jayson feels bad.

Looks bad.

Did you find anything to help him with?

- To what?

- Jayson, to help him.

(gasps)

- If this were dropped,

we'd lose much more
than you could imagine.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Must your friends be here
at this particular time?

I think they're taking advantage.

- Yes.

Yes, you're right.

Now, look, Mark.

It would be better if you wait outside.

What I mean is, wait until tomorrow.

We're in the middle here of
something very important.

- Other things are important, too.

- Look, I'm talking about life.

Do you here me?

Life.

We may be on the verge of discovering

the very factor that animates it.

Have you any idea what that means?

No, you wouldn't.

You'd never understand.

- Oh, I wouldn't, huh?

- Mark, come back tomorrow.

Please.

- Sure.

- Bring her over here.

- She's the daughter of a strong woman

with a parallel link to pure alien.

- With her blood available,

I don't know why you didn't
do this a long time ago.

- Well, transfusing animal
blood with that of a human

never seemed promising.

In light of my husband's changes,

the possibility was
never really considered.

- Go get the animals.

- [Mark] Hello.

- Let's take a rest.

Spread out.

- What's the matter, something wrong?

- Leone is missing.

- Oh.

- We found the tracks and one
set go deep into the ground.

- Oh.

- I'm sorry, Myra.

- Let's just follow the tracks.

- Why, sure.
- It's no use.

- Wait a minute, we can help.

The three of us can.

- There's nothing that can be done.

Not now.

Two sets of tracks means he won't weaken

the way he does when he's alone.

That happens when they want
one of us for an experiment.

- Oh.

Hey, wait a minute.

I'll tell you what we'll do.

Tonight, when it gets dark,

we'll go back there
together, all of us, okay?

(crying)

- This kind of thing happen very often?

- Sometimes.

- Well, you've gotta set
up some kind of protection.

You know, like deep pits in
the ground covered with grass.

- Yes, but.

(subdued music)

- Come on.

Maybe we'll be able to bring her back.

- We won't.

- There.

Now you've been adopted into the tribe.

- [Girl] He was a long time ago.

Adopted.

I'm going to miss him.

- He's gonna miss you.

He's gonna miss you very much.

(laughing)

- Did you touch...

Touch the bottle?

- I hardly have time, but, well.

(yells)

- Mate, mate.

Now, mate.

- Wasn't a bad drink.

By the way, don't lag behind
on that embalming powder.

Twice an hour, she said.

Until the autopsy.

- Embalming powder.

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- All right.

- I can, mate.

(laughing)

Make room for the bottle.

(laughing)

- I don't know how many
more of these they want,

but I'm not gonna chase any
more like I did this one.

- Oh, laddy.

You're just sorry
because this is a bummer.

You wanted him for Sunday dinner.

(laughing)

(machine beeping)

- Wish we could've saved her.

- How's the pulse?

- Strong.

- Let's increase the voltage.

- No, no, no.

I think it's high enough.

- What do you think?

- Uh, no.

No more.

- No more animals will be needed.

I'll let you know if there's a change.

Take this girl's body out.

- His eyes are fluttering.

Break out the secondary coil.

(tone pulsing)

Good.

All right.

Ease the primary back between 18 and 20.

Slowly.

Very slowly.

Good, good.

Is it at 18?

- 22.

21.

20.

19.

- Okay, full power.

All of it.

(tense music)

That's enough!

Easy now.

Relax.

- Try some water.

(sighs)

- There.

How do you feel?

- Strong.

Very much so.

- [Doc] Good.

- We've done it.

I think we've really done it.

- Done what?

- Found a blood supply that'll hold.

If it sustains the way I think
it will, it'll be permanent.

Why, you've never balanced
as quickly as this.

- What may I ask did you transfuse?

- We funneled fresh
hematitis by one quarter pint

for every full one received
from one of your alien girls.

- Animal blood?

Are you saying that you
gave me animal blood?

- With a slow entry rate,

the body itself h*m* the two types.

- Whose idea was this?

- Well, mine.

I thought that.

- You thought?

If you'd really thought you
would have looked in my journals

and found out that we
had tried this concept

before you were born.

It almost ended me.

- [Doc] We'll drain it immediately.

- I'll need type A.

That means the captain Jayson.

You'll have to start
the transfusion slowly.

Don't rush.

But gradually pick up
time as you progress.

- The 12 rang.

The Golden Thread.

Ye shall have its power.

Its power.

Its power.

Its power.

♪ I know where the four winds blow ♪

♪ And the good always goes ♪

♪ But when the ship sinks ♪

♪ There's no place to go ♪

(laughs)

What?

- O disciples, the power awaits you.

Ye will have all that ye wish.

All that ye wish.

I give the power of the thread.

(tense music)

(screaming)

- Get down.

- I couldn't see in the lab,
but I heard them talking.

They've got Jayson there, all right.

They're taking his blood.

- Down.

That's the fourth one I've seen tonight.

- Don't they cut down on the night shift?

- Cut down is right and
I'm gonna do the cutting.

- Come again?

- Machine g*ns.

Remember what she said?

The only to handle these
guys is with machine g*ns.

- Yeah.

Cut 'em right down the middle.

Got a couple on ya?

- She wouldn't have mentioned it

if there wasn't at least one
of them around here somewhere.

Now my guess is there's one in that house.

Do you know what a machine g*n looks like?

- Um, I think so.

- Oh.

They're about this long, you know.

They sh**t b*ll*ts.

- Come on.

(suspenseful music)

- Here.

It's a machine g*n, all right.

Looks like out of Civil w*r.

- Good.

Just so it works.

- Yeah.

(dramatic music)

(screams)

- Dino!

(screams)

- I'll need more blood.

- Easy.

- I can.

- Slowly now.

Take it easy.

- What are you doing?

I didn't call for anyone else.

Take her away.

No, wait.

She'll do for the second transfusion.

- [Girl] No!

No.

- [Jayson] You are.

You are, I know it.

Oh, my god.

My god.

- What?

- Oh, God.

Oh, God.

You're the perfect image of my wife.

Of my dear, my poor Lenore.

You're the absolute image of her.

She was k*lled 17 years ago

when the ship hit the reef

and you were cushioned in my arms.

- Me?

- Cushioned in my arms
when you were three.

Only three.

Don't you remember?

- Me?

- Who sang to you?

I sang to you.

Who told you the story of the seas,

of the continents of the
world, the story of Noah?

Don't you remember?

Think, child.

Don't you?

- Yes.

- [Jayson] No, ma'am.

Please, don't do that.

- [Girl] No!

- [Jayson] No, don't do it!

Take some of mine.

More of mine.

Take mine!

Mine!

(machine g*n firing)

- Get him by the wall.

To the side.

Hurry up.

All right, everybody.

Let's get ourselves relaxed and friendly

and we'll have no problems.

Doc, they're gonna crash
that door any minute.

Get over here with us.

- I think you've lost your mind.

Better stop this nonsense
before you ruin everything.

- Oh, I've lost my mind, huh?

You know, Doc.

I always knew you were a comic.

Dino, check out the old man.

- Dino.

- Please.

If he doesn't have blood, he'll die.

- Well, whose blood would you like?

Would you like Dino's?

How about mine?

- This man worked with Dr. Frankenstein.

He's the link that can...

Look, we'll take just one
pint from each of them.

He's a great man.

Save him for science.

- You may not know it, Doc,

but that's exactly what
I'm trying to do for you.

- That door's gonna go!

(banging on door)

- What chance do you
really think you have?

- Against them?

I've cut five of 'em to pieces

and I'm just waiting for the rest.

For what it's worth, we
bolted your outside door.

Those guys are too dumb
to come in the window.

- Look, Mark.

You're doing what I expect you
to, and I know you mean well,

but this is something
out of your experience.

If you had any idea about
the science we're after,

what they're really doing,

you'd see the mistake in your thinking.

- Be careful!

Don't bump it!

- Mark, its value is more
than you can imagine.

- Look, what do you think?

Maybe it's the brain we should destroy.

(electricity zapping)

- I hear thee.

One so close, I hear.

Though as I hear, be reassured.

My response is forthcoming.

O Celeste of the heavens.

O horse within the light.

I call for a decree in the
tradition we perpetuated.

Grant upon this night, the
created one becomes full.

That he be free.

Grant that he be free.

And behest the name of
Frankenstein to endure.

(tense music)

Upon the name of the Golden
Thread, ye shall have strength.

Strength.

Strength upon the name
of the Golden Thread.

Ye shall have strength.

Ye shall have strength.

(ominous music)

(dramatic music)

- Mark, I want you to listen to me.

We've been friends a long time.

Now, you owe something to that friendship.

- No, Doc.

If you were yourself,

you wouldn't be asking me
to do anything different.

They've been feeding you
dope ever since you got here.

- You're psyched out, Doc,
and you don't know it.

- Please, I'm begging you.

Don't do this.

- Madam, I'm doing nothing.

And I might add, so are
you and your husband.

- I'll release your friend.

(dramatic music)

(growling)

(electricity zapping)

(laughing)

(tense music)

(thunder crashing)

(Melvin whimpers)

(laughing)

(thunder crashes)

- He's all right now.

How do you feel, Doc?

- Like I've been asleep.

(laughs)

- We've lost far too much time.

Get the girl ready for the transfusion.

- Whoa, I didn't promise
anything about that.

- You certainly implied it.

You indicated that if my husband
would cooperate, you'd see.

- Wait a minute.

Wait, wait.

I'm the correct blood type.

I'll donate two pints.

(door clatters)

(dramatic music)

- It's jammed!

(grunting)

(gasping)

(Melvin barking)

(growling)

(glass shatters)

(tone pulses)

(shelf clattering)

- The brain, it's going to be destroyed.

- Don't worry.

If the brain is damaged,

another one will activate in seconds.

The power will start again.

A backup brain was hidden
years ago just in case.

- Now's your chance to go.

- Go?

- Take the raft and go.

Now you have a chance,
but only for a minute.

- What are you talking about?

- I overheard them discussing it.

When the brain was
damaged, the power stopped.

But there's another
brain hidden somewhere.

It'll activate any minute and
they'll all be strong again.

- She's right.

We could bring back help.

- [Dino] Come on.

We're getting out.

- He can't move.

It's impossible.

He's barely alive.

- [Dino] Then you come.

- I can't.

He's my father.

- [Doc] Dino, come on.

We've gotta go.

Dino, come on.

- [Dino] We'll come back for ya.

We'll come back for ya.

- The thing just got
more and more fantastic

as the situations were developing.

You see, at first, I thought
we were in the hands of people

that would understand
and give us some help.

- It's hard to believe with all
that sophisticated equipment

that they wouldn't try
some kind of radio contact.

- It became obvious that
everything about them

was out of step.

And you must realize that
we had no alternative

except to keep our heads and
look for every opportunity.

- And you didn't pull that
one off very well neither.

- I know, but.

- Colonel, what I'd like to know is

who has jurisdiction
over something like this?

- Nobody.

It's a friendly island.

- [Mark] Oh, that's wonderful.

- Now, when you say that a
man is being held prisoner

and he might be an American.

Now, if you're mistaken in that,

that could bring about
some kind of embarrassment.

- Oh, there's no mistake.

I only wish there was.

- Tell you very frankly.

If I didn't know I was hearing
this from the horse's mouth,

I'd check my communications
for a big hole somewhere.

- You're just gonna have
to see it for yourself.

- See for myself?

- [Doc] Mm-hmm.

- Colonel, I'm very sorry,

but I realize that this
sounds like it's a, uh.

- Paperback, huh?

- Well.

- I cannot brush off the reality

of that raft that you were on.

Those logs are tangible.

Obviously, rooted to the ground.

- And the ground is there,
just like I told you.

And if it hadn't been for those logs,

we wouldn't have gotten any place.

And believe me, that's
something I'm very thankful for.

- So much has happened, really,

that the mind can't catalog it.

But the one thing on top
is we gotta get back there

and without losing any more time.

- Get an okay from Manila this afternoon.

(dramatic music)

- What the?

- I don't know why, but
the girls' huts are gone.

They were right there.

- Come on.

- Melvin?

Melvin!

- I don't believe it.

(dramatic music)

- Well?

- The house, the laboratory.

They've completely disappeared.

- Disappeared?

- Holy cow.

- So that's your story.

The house was there, but
it's not there any more.

- Right.

- Well, we might as well wrap this up

as quickly as possible.

- Wait a minute.

You're not gonna leave us.

Just walk away from it?

- Just walk away.

It's clear you hallucinated
the whole thing.

- Hallucinated?

(subdued music)

- Hallucinated.

- All four of us.

- That's ridiculous.

How can all four of us
hallucinate the same thing?

- Aw, it's nuts.

Now, answer me, Doc.

How can four grown men,
four different minds,

go through all of this and
it just had to go up and.

(Melvin barks)

- Hey!

Melvin.

Ah.

Hey, where are you going?

- Oh.

(sweeping music)