Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973)

[bunniefuu]

[Bell tolling]


- Thanks.
- All right, let's get out of here.

Hello.

Excuse me, but does anybody here
speak English?

Hello.

Could you tell me where
the church is, please?

Chris.

I'm Peter.

I didn't expect you to get here
this quickly.
I made it as fast as I could.

Oh, don't feel badly about that.
It's because you're a stranger here.

I've been here over a year and they
still consider me an outsider.

They don't have to worry about me.

I'll be out of here as soon as I
say my goodbyes.

Thanks.
- Tired, huh?
- I'll rest later.

I'd like to see where my father died, first.

- Those look kind of like totem poles.
- Yeah, kind of.

- To ward off evil spirits?
- That's right.

Looks like my father chose the right
island to study primitive culture.

Is the graveyard next to the, uh,
church, up here?
Yes.

You must be tired.
Got a room set for you at the inn.
I'd rather stay in the, uh, rectory,
in father's room.

My father really loved this church,
didn't he?

Among other things.

He was restoring it when he died.

- Where is your sister?
- We'll meet her later.

Why don't you change and I'll take
you down to where your father is.


Your father was a fine man.
Really fine.

You probably knew him better
than I did.

Don't feel badly. He understood.

He used to say how he was digging
into the past like an old snoop.
While you were building into
the future.

He was very proud of you.

Your father was getting into paganism,
heathenism and all the other things
this island once went in for.
Probably still does.

I just can't understand how he
got k*lled like that.

Like I told you in the letter,
I don't know.

He just wasn't a careless man.

We didn't even know that your
father had found this place.

An old ruin hat's been buried
six hundred years.
The tomb itself is over
seven hundred years old.

He's under that?

There was no way to get him out.

I mean we tried,
but we couldn't budge it.

Must weigh tons.

The only thing I've been
able to figure out
is that these supports were old and
about to give away
and your father brushed against
one of them.

What was he doing under there?

I don't know.
We never knew about this tomb.
And there's a maze of tunnels
coming in and out of here.

How do you know about them?

Why do they keep it a secret
from everyone?

I'm afraid that's something
we'll never know.

And there's nothing we can do.

We can bury him.

I'm not going to leave him here.

This is the heraldry of the Dauphin.
Louis VII chose it for his bride.
- Was this island ever French?
- No.

But King Louis touched down here once,
in the middle of the Second Crusade.

During the Thirteenth Century.

As a matter of fact,
that's why I'm here.

I'm writing an historical novel
about that crusade.

- Naneo?
-"I remain"...it implies forever.

Hannah, 1269...

For the sake of the dead and
the welfare of the living...
might this tomb remain untouched
and its occupant undisturbed...
until the time of Christ.
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost...
By order of his Majesty, King Louis VII.

You know Hannah was supposed to
have been quite a beauty.

The reason King Louis had brought
her along in the crusade
was so that they could get married
in the Holy Land.
After he conquered the heathens.

What is that animal next to her
supposed to represent?

That's a werewolf.

Do you mean that she was supposed
to have been a vampire?

So goes the myth.

Oh, I see, I see.
Vampires are never supposed to die
so she's in that tomb fangs and all,
ready to go after seven hundred years!
Unless someone put a stake through her heart.
Our only hope, according to my sister.

We have very few facts.
The fewer the facts the harder it is
to dispel superstition.

Tell me the facts you do know.

How do you separate fact from fantasy?

Anyway, the story goes like this...
King Louis left Leon for the Crusades
with twenty thousand strong.
At sea there was a terrible storm.
And the ship carrying the King's
young bride, Hannah
crashed on this island.
The King was frantic over the lost ship
and his lost bride.
He searched and searched
until he found the wreckage here.

The wise men think he must
have come ashore.
Because in those days this was known
as 'Vampire Island'.

But the King overrode their fears
and objections
and landed with his men.
He was a little too late.
When he finally found his lost crew
they had all become vampires.

And Hannah?

I see! And people actually believed a
thing like this look place!
- Oh, yes.
- And so did your father.

No way!
There was never a man with a
greater belief in science.
His faith was unshakable.
This has nothing to do with faith
or science.
He studied and watched and...
Come on, Mary, you sound like you're
beginning to believe that stuff yourself.
It's written in that book.
Signed by the King's personal mark.
They found vampires.
And the King ordered his crusaders
to k*ll all of them.
Ah, yeah.

So when the Knights held the pointed
stake to the last vampire's heart...
Hannah's... about to thrust it in
and slay her...
the King wept and stopped the
knight from the m*rder.
Even now he was too much in love
with his queen to see her put to death.

So he ordered a great tomb built
in which to inter her.

Hannah screamed for pity.
For her it would be a living death.

But the King's orders were followed.
She was
buried alive...
and forever in the marble tomb.

Well I'm going to move that tomb.
And I'm going to bury my father.


[Latch noise]

[Noise sounds again]

[Noise rattles]

[Laughter]

- Wait!
- Where is he!
- Where's who?
- The man! The man who was here!
Take it easy now.
Who'?
Come on to my room...
come to my room!

[Mad laughing]


I swear to you, he was right there.
He was right there.

You think I'm imaging things.

- Am I?
- Mary's ghost stories.
Sometimes they get to me too.

Especially on an empty stomach and
after a long trip and no sleep.

Here.

- You all right'?
- Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks.
Okay then, why don't you try and
get some sleep?
Goodnight.

Pete...
I don't know, I just...

I saw my father's face.

I know.

Sometimes I think I see it myself.


- Morning.
- Oh, hi.

I hope I didn't wake you up too early
this morning with all this banging...
but I had to get these hooks ready
for the men to go to work.
That's all right.
Come on, Hussein.

- Have you a nice cup of coffee?
- You bet.
Morning.

Oh, excuse me.

Morning.

They're crazy about you.
They'll like you better when they
get to know you.
- Yeah.
- Mmm.
Why don't you stick around about
twenty years?
Give them the chance.

You know, it's quite a little set-up
you got here.

Well, fishing is the life blood
of this island.

It was your father's idea to lure the
islanders here by

Providing them with a shop to make
all of the necessary equipment.

They had the know how,
I helped them out.

I kind of a jack of all trades.

And so while I was banging away
at fishing gear, he got to know them.
Sort of like the neighbourhood
barber shop.

Exactly.
I guess he was also the local judge,
doctor and marriage counselor?

You got the picture.

Hey, where's Mary work?
The school's right around the
corner there.
[Singing A-B-Cs]

Very good.

On tomorrows geography test,
I will expect you to know
the names and shapes of every
major island in the Mediterranean.

And since we live so close, all the
countries between here and India.

And now I want you to remember, that
anyone that I find playing in the cemetery
will spend the whole day in the corner.
Just like Arthur.

Okay, school's out.

Hi.

Well, I don't know...
must be my boyish charm.
Every time I run into one of the locals
I just seem to turn them all off.

Look, teacher, could you just answer
me one question...
What are you doing here?

Teaching school.
And that's what brought you to
this miserable island.
I had a few weeks off.
I caught up to Peter, here.
I liked it and I stayed.
Travelled halfway around the world
just to teach in this little room, right?

Why not'?
Peter's the only family I have.
Your father was a good friend.
Darwin and vampires!
Hell of a combination.

What was my father after that
scares you so much'?

You are frightened, aren't you?

Yes. I'm frightened.
Of vampires?
I've learned not to scoff at unnatural
things that seem unanswerable.

There may be answers even if
I don't know what they are.

What are the answers?

You wouldn't believe them.

Do you think my father was starting to
believe in this garbage?

- He was starting to.
- And you'?

That doesn't matter.
It matters plenty because you're
damned-near accusing him of paganism.
Or worse!
Look, I'm not accusing him of anything.
I'm just telling you that you're
meddling where you have no right.
Burying my father isn't meddling.

I warned you.

I can't do anything more.


- Do you think you'll be able to lift it?
- Well see.
It's about four tons of marble.
Do you think you can round up
some strong backs to give me a hand?

I'm not going to be anxious.
I'm going to need some help.

I'll get them for you.
Good. Oh, I'll need enough lumber
for scaffolds...
I'll need rocks and timbers to
reinforce the foundation.
Now what are my chances for that?
That part of it I'll guarantee.
Okay, is there anything on this island
heavier than davits?
I've got a really strong hoist
to lift this thing.

What are you doing?
I'm breaking the seal.

- You can't!
- Well, it's too heavy otherwise.
This tomb must weigh three tons.

We've got to move it in
two sections.

Don't. She's in there.
Only what's left of her is.
Don't!
That's all there can be after
seven hundred years.

They're opening the tomb.

Ali, we've got to stop them
before ifs too late.
No! We should help them.
And I'm going to!
Ah, you stay here. It's enough that
those other fools went down there.

But... but... the American is a
fine engineer, and father told me.
Your father said many things.
And he's dead.
But that was an accident.
It was no accident!

She caused it.

Somehow.
But Professor Bolton explained all
about superstitions like that.
He was a stranger.
He didn't know.
And his son doesn't understand either.
What's there to understand?
You can only believe what you see.

No, Adnan.
You can know and believe without seeing.

Okay. We should be able to
raise it now.

Look, g*dd*mn it!

I don't think that there's a man here
who doesn't owe the Professor a favour.

You, lslan, when your son fell off the cliff...
And you, Ram, your Me...
He gave her medicine the whole
night to break her fever.
I mean, what kind of men are you?
Do I have to get down on my knees to
beg you to bury a man like that?

It'll be fine... keep pulling.

We're done! Tie it off.

I can't get over it,
she's perfectly preserved.
She looks alive!
It could have been a vacuum.

After seven hundred years?

It was some kind of lost
embalming rite.
You know, like they did with
the mummies.

You know what Mary said?
She said that my father was starting
to believe in vampires.
He couldn’t have believed that
stuff he he wanted.

Oh, I don't know. There's just no
logical explanation for all of this.

Your father had a saying:
"Logic comes by the cold light of dawn."


What is it, Bonnie?

Who's out there?

Bonnie?

Bonnie?

Don't you go near there.

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

- Zora. Zora, come on.
Bonnie got k*lled.
How did it happen?
The old seaman says the
vampire did it. Come on.

- Where are they?
- At the tavern. Everybody’s there.
Come on, hurry.

It was a wolf.
You're blind old man,
how do you know what it was?
I heard it.
I smelt it.
It was a wolf, I tell you.

It was a wolf, running out of that
stinking fog. It k*lled my Bonnie.

Ii came straight at me, blood
dripping from its mouth.
If he doesn't stop scaring them we're
never going to get them back to work.
[Mutters]
Abdul Hamid, listen...

You know there are no wolves
on this island.

It was a wolf from her tomb.
It was probably just a wild dog.
Your imagination is playing
tricks on you.
You fool. You freed the vampire,
and my dog lies dead to prove it.

That's a myth! A story for
old women and children.
No telling when she will find all
of the sealed vampires
and they'll go cavorting around naked
holding black mass... sucking off
little babies' blood.

Nothing evil they won't try and do.
He's got them convinced.
Why shouldn't they be?
It's the truth.
You don't believe this stupid
superstition.
Put away them college books
and get yourself some dog bane
and garlic flowers to keep that
she-wolf down.

Because I want to tell you something.
You let Hannah loose. Just give her a couple
of more days to get back her strength.
Vampire Island it was and will be again!

You started Hannah back to k*lling.
We can't forgive you that.
That tomb's got to be sealed back fast.
Going out as a wolf she can only
get other animals...

But soon she's strong enough to go out
on her own.

She'll be coming after us.
It's our only chance.
We've got to help.
We've got to go as fast as we can.

Now that she has blood she will be different.
You with eyes, look at her face.
You will see. You will see.


It's all right.

It's all right. He's gone.
What was he? He was horrible.

I don't know, but he's gone now.
You're safe.

You're safe.

I'd vociferate the contained room...
as there were a Devil's cult on the island...

And then after the accident there
seemed to be no escape.

- L felt all alone.
- Oh, Peter was here.

He would never believe any of it.

I did everything I could to get him to wrap
this research here and leave the island.
But he got hung up on all the myths,
as your father had.

And then when you arrived and
wanted to move the tomb.

It seemed as if an awful plan was unfolding.

As if what was happening was meant.

I mean that it was all a plan in order
to free Hannah from here tomb.

Look here, little girl, why didn't you
tell me all of this when I first got here?
You never would have believed me.

Ali said one thing,
to leave everything as it was.
To take no chances.

Are you cold?
You want to go on back in?

Can we stay a little while longer?

Li's the first time I've felt something
here in such a long time.

Do you mind?

No, I don't mind.


We send astronauts to the moon
and we've garlic flowers
to protect ourselves from vampires.

It seems to me we haven't come very
far in the last thousand years.
You'll feel a lot worse if she
gets out tonight.
What about the wolf pan of her?
She can't get past them flowers either.
So she's beaten either way. Tomorrow we
are going to have that lid back on her.
Maybe.

She's smart. Seven hundred years smart,
and she ain't about to get sealed up again.
If she can help it.

You know this is crazy.
Crazy!

Before the moon comes up make sure
that dog bane is around Hannah's tomb.
It is the only thing that will keep
her in there.


Well... hello.

Caught in the act, huh?
Okay, I approve.
And how I approve!
Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that,
Pete, because
I want to take Mary away from this island.

Why, that's great!

Just great! I should never have
let her come in the first place.

Chris, that's not fair.
I never decided to go.
Oh, yes, you'll go.
And the sooner the better.

But who'll take care of you?

Who's going to take care of
screwball brother?
Oh, Peter, I didn't mean it to
sound like that.

Well, you see Chris.

I was a bloody genius.
Jead, Hemmingway, Mahler.
I could put them all away.
Come on, Peter.
Betwixt the word and the deed.
I mean, getting it down on paper...
something didn't connect.

I mean, I had plenty of ideas.
I saw the whole scene before it started.

Once I got into the research
I'd get hung up.

And I never wrote the book.

So what did I do?

I dropped out.

I mean I tried every scene in the book
and then some.
You name it, I did it.
I took uppers and downers
and inners and outers...
until I was blown out, spaced out,
beaten up, shot up...
and I tripped and I ripped.
I mean I shot everything but apsrin.

I blew my house down.

Thank god for Mary.

She came just in time and
dragged that kid out of there.

I feel like a reformed hooker.
I mean, man, I'm functioning now.

This island, Mary, it all straightened
out my head.
And you know something,
I'm writing good stuff now.

So, my sister, my nursemaid,
my friend
don't you think it's time you began
concentrating a bit on your own life?

Maybe Chris here's just the guy
to help you do it.

Don't you think?


My father would k*ll me if he knew
what I was doing.

Just make sure that stake is
good and sharp... or we're all dead.

Are you really going to stick
this through her heart?

I'm blind, yet I am the only one
that can see what's happening.

Sure, I'm going to k*ll her.
It's the only way to stop her.

Let's get on with it.
The men will be getting to work soon.

I was taught by Professor Bolton
that vampires were myths.
That they aren't real.

They're real enough... if you ever feel
her fangs sinking in your neck.

What do you want me to do?

All you have to do is lead me
into the tomb.
Show me where her heart is... then
make sure I drive the stake right into it.

Do really believe that Hannah
is seven hundred years old?
It doesn't make any sense.
It'll make sense if you wake up one
morning with two holes in your neck.

But what if she comes after us?
I told you to bring a cross.
Hold it over her. It's like dog bane.
Burns through her like acid.

Adnan! Adnan!
Where are you?

I'll be right with you,
I'm making a cross.
Hurry! We have no time.
We must get to the tomb before
the men get back to work.

Do you hear me?
Adnan?
I'm coming as fast as I can.

We'll be ready to seal her back up
this afternoon. You satisfied now?
Maybe.
But I don't know what she's
figuring out in there.
Well, we'll give her another couple
of hundred years to think it over.

- The rope is broken.
- No, it's been cut.


Let's take him home.
Will you men come back later?
Why?
Isn't one victim enough for you.

We may never know
what went on down there.
But we know this,
he was trying to put an end to Hannah.
He was trying to rid this island of
her and the vampire superstition
that has haunted you all
for generations!
- Now if he was right...
- He was right.
Why else is he dead?
All right, if he was right,
then the only way out
is for us to finish what he started.
How? The lid is covering her heart,
there is no way to k*ll her.
Yes there is, if we move the tomb
like we started to do!
Then we'll seal the lid back on her tight-
and forever!
We tried and failed.
We can't.
We can if every man will help.
Now I can fix that rigging.
With a little bit of muscle we can do
this job and do it quickly.

Who would do this thing to my son?

Whoever k*lled the old sailor,
and tried to carry off Mary.

Come, let us sit with our dead.

That's all well and good,
but remember there's still Hannah.
She's in back of all of this.

The k*lling won't stop until we get her
buried again and sealed up in her tomb!

Mary.


Hey! You men, listen to me-
Hannah's out!
Any man who's got a family, go home.
Hannah's loose!
- How do you know?
- I saw her.
Get crucifixes, stakes...
warn everybody you see!
Ali, did you hear that?
Hannah's escaped!

Come on!
- Look, have you seen Mary?
- I haven't seen her.
Search the whole island.
- Let's go down to the beach.
- We'll search and warn everybody..

- This way, come on to the beach.
- Hurry up. Come on.

Mary!

Mary!

Mary!

Chris, are you down there?
I've been waiting for you.
Chris!

[Chanting]

For all of those faithful to you, Hannah,
life has changed my enemy.
[Chanting]
He me , oh Hannah, for you are
our all and our strength.
In you who rise from the dead
dawns our hope of resurrection.
Rise and you restore our life.
- You promise immortality.
- Oh, Peter!
[Chanting]
Mary!

Mary?

Mary?


- Peter.
- Get out!
- Come away with me, Peter.
- No.

- I shall have immortality.
- Immortality!
Happiness. That which you
already have in this life.
Rejoice in it. Live it.
Believe me...
I will not leave you.
You already have.
You've taken on a lover.
- Oh, Hannah, my life and my all.
- Peter, stop this!
- Inflame me with such love as to light up my eyes.
- Peter, listen to me.
- So that I shall never sleep in death.
- Peter, it will be like before, you and me.
I shall never die, but live.
Oh my god!
That's blasphemy!

This is a sacred temple.

Such love is the light in my eyes
so that I shall never sleep in death.
- I'll keep Chris, but stay with you.
- I shall not die but live.
- Do you understand me, Peter,
we'll always stay together.
Mary, will you mean that?

Oh, then I'm saved.
Saved from the tortures and the heaviness.
Yes, Peter. Yes, my darling.
- Come, come away with me.
- Yes.

Hannah.

Mary, do you hear that?

- It's Hannah!
- Peter, come quickly.
Mary, she's come for us.

We'll be her angels of death.

Couriers for our devil goddess.

I think we should make our rounds
hand in hand.

The only world where the love of
brother and sister is blessed.
And not cursed.

Oh, how I've worked for this day.
Struggled to set Hannah free.

You mean you k*lled Chris' father?
He would have tried to prevent my
setting her free.

- And Chris.
- Chris only helped.


Come on!

Look.

Oh Hannah...
Come to nourish our souls and
rejoice in us.
Your two faithful servants.
Who wish to be united to each
other and to you.

Forever and eternally.

[Chanting]

Come, oh Hannah, for we will delight
in your commands
which we love exceedingly.
[indistinct chanting]

It appeared...

- Look over there.
- All right.
It's so dark.
- Look down by the creek.
- All right.

Nothing.

Wait, I heard something.
What noise?

Oh my god!


k*ll me!

Put the stake in my heart.

Please!

Mine... mine is gone.

I want your blood!

I need it, please.
k*ll me!
I beg you, Adnan.

k*ll me!


Oh Hannah...

Come and inflame us with so much
love as to light up our eyes.

That we shall never sleep in death.

[Chanting]

You who have risen from the dead
to unite us in black matrimony.

Witness this most sacred proof of our
desire to join you in a better world.

Witness and receive our blood oath.

[Chanting]

Now wait a minute. Now listen.
Listen to me!

I'll stand by you.
I'll help you in any way I can
if you just let me get you and your sister
out of this place.

Just hold on.

Everything's going to be all right.

I've always been your friend,
and I want you to believe me.

Are you all right, Mary?
I don't know.
He made me drink something.

Hey!

Now I want you to stay in my room
until I get back.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to find Hannah.
She only has till dawn to get all
of the blood she needs. Now here!
Take these flowers and wrap them
around you. You'll be all right.
Go on.

There... There she is!

Hannah?

Hannah!


Hannah! Come out!

I know you're here.

You're still hungry, aren't you?

You need more blood.

Well, here I am, Hannah.
Why don't you try me?

Come on, Hannah. Come on.

There's only one more hour till sunrise
and I won't let you back in your tomb.

Chris, are you okay?
Yeah, I'm all right. Here, give me that.
Come on, we've got to find her!

This way.

Stay here. Now don't move,
whatever happens.

Look! There's someone up there.


[Screams]