INT. THE CAPTIVES' APARTMENT - DAY
A key rattles in the door lock outside.
Lyle pops up his head, hair mussed, behind the back of the
couch, to look anxiously toward the door.
Lyle and Katy both jump up from some loveplay on the couch,
straightening their clothes and hair, as the door is being
opened.
Thug #1 roughly brings in Dorian, while Thug #2 strides over
to the wall hanging, which is back on the wall.
Yolanda enters, prances over to Lyle. Thug #3 waits by the
door. Thug #2 yanks the hanging from the wall and begins
gathering it up.
Yolanda touches Lyle's face.
YOLANDA
We'll be back for you soon. After
the sunset.
There is contempt in Lyle's eyes. Yolanda glances at Katy
with disdain, smiles at Dorian.
Yolanda turns, sashays toward the door.
YOLANDA (cont'd)
That is when La Fiesta begins.
Thug #2, heading out with the wall hanging, pauses by Dorian
to taunt him:
THUG #2
Du brauchst nicht dieser
Wandteppich. (You don't need
this wall hanging.)
Thug #2 proceeds out with his fellow thugs and Yolanda.
As the captives are being locked in:
DORIAN
He's here. I met him.
KATY
Dracula?
Dorian begins worriedly pacing.
DORIAN
Yeah. Quincey. Whatever his name
is. King of the Vampires. What
are we going to do? "Tonight's the
night," he said. Tonight he gets
his blood, and I'm the one with all
the little red cells. They're
having a feast, and I'm the fatted
calf.
LYLE
What's that make me and Katy, the
Worchestershire sauce?
Dorian sits down, begins rubbing his brow.
DORIAN
Sorry, Lyle. Katy. We're all
in this together. Have I got a
headache! I always get a headache
like this when I get too much
blood in me.
Lyle and Katy seem to wish Dorian hadn't said that.
EXT. THE SUNSET
A dying red glow on the horizon.
INT. CAPTIVES' APARTMENT - NIGHT
Dorian, Katy, and Lyle sit close together, holding hands, on
the couch. They're awaiting their fate, scared, their eyes
on the darkness outside.
DORIAN
Katy, tell me a story.
LYLE
Tell us both one.
Katy thinks, then,
KATY
Once upon a time there were three
people being held captive in a
castle by vampires. And they knew
there was no escape. So you know
what they did? The three of them
sat down close together on a couch,
just like this, and they wished
with all their might that they were
somewhere far away from that
castle. And lo and behold -
LYLE
(interrupting)
What kind of story is that? You
think we can wish our way out of
this?
KATY
Okay, smartie, let's hear you make
one up.
LYLE
At a time like this?
(then)
Okay. One time there was this
perfectly good decent guy, who had
never done one evil thing in his
life, who suddenly found himself
being held in a castle by vampires.
And he kept asking himself, "Why
me?" And there was simply no
logical answer. And -
KATY
(interrupting)
This guy was all by himself? There
were no other captives with him?
LYLE
Of course there were. There was a
young woman, whom he loved. And
there was a little boy, who had all
these little red cells.
The rattle of a key. The door opens, and Vlad steps in,
thugs waiting outside.
VLAD
You are invited . . . to our feast.
It's the last thing they wanted to hear.
INT. THE FEAST - NIGHT
Murtala begins ceremonially burning herbs in the flame of a
charcoal brazier. He chants:
MURTALA
Hear me, O Terrible and Invisible
God . . .
It is a scene not of feasting but of ritual magic, with most
of the hall in darkness.
Dorian sits, arms and feet bound to his low-backed chair, in
a magic circle drawn on the floor. (Maybe a spotlight is on
him.)
Behind Dorian is darkness. Ranged before him, in a great
semicircle, watching from the shadows, are the 50 or so
vampires seen earlier at the Bucket o' Blood.
Murtala, in priestly red robe and jewelry, continues his
chant by the brazier:
MURTALA (cont'd)
. . . and make all the spirits of
heaven, of earth, below earth, on
land and in water, now subject to
me!
Lyle and Katy stand off to the side, hands bound behind their
backs, grimly watching. They are flanked by Thugs #1 and #2.
Bogdan, bejeweled, in his Grand Boyar robe, steps to Thug
#1's side and whispers:
BOGDAN
Where is Jukes with the goblet?
Thug #1 shrugs that he doesn't know.
BOGDAN (cont'd)
Go get him.
Before Thug #1 can go, Bogdan hears:
JUKES
Grand Boyar, sir.
Jukes arrives, fairly drunk, with a fancy goblet. Bogdan
takes the goblet, glances in it, looks hard at Jukes.
BOGDAN
Is it going to work?
JUKES
I most fervently hope so.
Bogdan moves off with the goblet. Jukes is now standing by
Lyle, Thug #1 is behind them.
During all this, Murtala's incantation continues:
MURTALA
Thee I invoke, O Iduna, in the name
of Odin, of Thor, of Loki, of
Balder, of Freya; thee I invoke, O
Iduna, in the name of Vithar, of
Nanna, of Tyr, in the name of all
gods of Gladsheim and Vingolf. I
invoke thee, O Iduna, to be with us
now in thy spirit.
Bogdan, moving to his mark as leader of the ritual, hands the
goblet to Murtala in passing.
Facing the vampire audience, Bogdan gestures with an
outstretched arm toward the darkness behind him.
BOGDAN
Arise, O Voivode, come forth,
mighty Boyar, for the spirit of
Iduna is with us!
During this, bound Dorian sits helpless, sweating in fear, in
his chair.
BOGDAN (cont'd)
Arise, O scion of Vlad Tepes, brave
Prince of Wallachia, who broke the
Hungarian yoke . . .
Now Dracula can dimly be seen, in tuxedo and scarlet- lined
black cape, coming forth from a thronelike chair in the
darkness.
BOGDAN (cont'd)
. . . who crossed the Danube to
beat the Turk on the Turk's own
ground, who with the blood of the
Huns, of Attila himself, in his
veins, did vanquish the Magyar,
the Lombard, the Saxon . . .
Lyle speaks quietly to Jukes:
LYLE
Now we meet him, eh? Hail to the
Prince of Darkness.
JUKES
You would call him that. That's
always the way. We vampires always
get a bad rap.
During this and under it:
BOGDAN
. . . thou whose place is the place
of all honor in the Order Eternal
of Walpurgisnacht.
Dracula, emerged from the darkness, is moving toward waiting
Bogdan.
BOGDAN (cont'd)
Again we humbly welcome thee,
Prince of Wallachia, scion of the
Dragon, O Voivode of Voivodes!
The dialogue of Katy, Lyle, and Jukes, quietly spoken, will
OVERLAP Bogdan's speech:
BOGDAN (cont'd)
There is new blood and old,
O Voivode, in our temple this
evening. Such new blood may
enrich, or such new blood may
dilute, the old blood, tried
and true, of our order. The
judgment, O Voivode, is yours.
Jukes, amiable drunk that he is, seems eager to make Lyle see
the light:
JUKES
We're not so bad. You'll see.
This is our good deed for the year.
LYLE
Good deed? Okay, Doc, I give up:
What good deed?
As Jukes gestures off toward Dracula:
JUKES
It's there, in the drink.
Bogdan, receiving the goblet from Murtala, hands it to
Dracula.
BOGDAN
Drink now of this blood - the old,
tried and true - of the Order
Eternal.
Dracula drinks.
JUKES
There, you see? It's coating his
teeth. Which will soon be in
Dorian.
LYLE
You call that a good deed? Tell
Dorian that.
JUKES
We can't. That's the trouble.
We have to be appropriately evil,
like the vampires we are, or he
might stop believing. We could
hardly have that, now could we?
This seems to start wheels turning in Lyle's head.
As Dracula, wiping his mouth, hands the cup back to Bogdan:
BOGDAN
Pass judgment, O Voivode, if new
blood is to now be commingled.
Dracula burps.
DRACULA
Let new blood be commingled.
Bogdan returns the cup to Murtala.
BOGDAN
Let new blood be commingled.
DRACULA
There's nothing like blood.
The truth is beginning to dawn on Lyle.
LYLE
Katy, I think you were right.
JUKES
(quietly, to Lyle)
The boy must be injected -
Lyle is thinking, not listening to Jukes.
KATY
About what?
JUKES
- for our good deed to work.
LYLE
(eagerly, to Katy)
Wishing our way out of this. That's
how we got in!
KATY
What?
LYLE
You heard him. They've got to keep
Dorian believing - in vampires!
Dracula and Bogdan move toward terrified Dorian.
DRACULA
Whose blood have you brought me?
BOGDAN
The blood of three mortals, O
Voivode.
LYLE
The Vortex. It's like a whirlpool,
yeah - of belief!
Dorian's terror is mounting, as Dracula puts a bony hand on
Dorian's shoulder.
DRACULA
Then let us begin, that new blood
be commingled.
Lyle speaks more loudly now, but not yet disruptively:
LYLE
Get thousands to believe something -
millions -
JUKES
Every little bit helps.
LYLE
Then someone like Dorian -
JUKES
It works wonders.
As Bogdan and Dracula still concentrate on the ritual:
BOGDAN
Comes now Dorian Jarrett -
DORIAN
No . . .
LYLE
Without Dorian -
JUKES
Why, it would catastrophic.
BOGDAN
- to join us in the Order
Eternal -
Dracula begins slowly, hungrily leaning down toward Dorian's
neck.
DORIAN
No . . .
BOGDAN
- of Walpurgisnacht . . .
Lyle gets louder, with drunk Jukes caught up in Lyle's
excitement:
LYLE
(to Katy)
We helped, too, by believing,
coming here to Bran Castle -
JUKES
Indeed.
Dracula stops, his teeth only inches from Dorian's neck.
Everyone can hear Lyle now, and all the vampires have looks
of concern.
LYLE
But it's Dorian! He made the
difference!
JUKES
Bless his soul.
LYLE
He put 'em over the top!
Katy now seems to understand.
KATY
If Dorian stopped believing -
JUKES
Don't say that.
LYLE
It would put 'em out of commission!
BOGDAN
Silence him!
Yolanda, shoving two or three vampires out of the way, is
rushing toward Lyle.
LYLE
Dorian, you can stop 'em!
Thug #2 grabs Lyle, slaps a hand over Lyle's mouth.
As Dracula looks dottily confused:
BOGDAN
(to Dracula)
Go ahead!
KATY
Dorian, don't believe it!
Lyle bites Thug #2's hand, Thug #2 screams. As Thug #1 grabs
Lyle:
LYLE
(to Dorian)
Don't believe that it's happening!
As Dracula, fire in his eyes, is about to bite Dorian's neck:
DORIAN
Don't believe it?
As Yolanda sinks her teeth into Lyle's neck, Thug #1 holding
him:
LYLE
DON'T BELIEVE IT, DORIAN!! YOU CAN
STOP 'EM!!
Dr. Gross, out of nowhere, lustfully sinks his teeth into
Katy.
KATY
DON'T BELIEVE!! . . .
Dracula's teeth are sinking into Dorian's neck now, blood
pouring down.
DORIAN
NOOOO!! . . . I DON'T BELIEVE
IT!! . . . I DON'T BELIEVE THIS
IS HAPPENING!! . . .
As Dorian continues screaming, a strong howling wind bursts
into the room.
With Dracula's teeth still in Dorian, Yolanda's and Gross's
still in Lyle and Katy, the vampires all begin turning to
bright, reddish dust, spiraling clouds of it, as if in so
many whirlwinds.
DORIAN (cont'd)
I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING!! .
. . I DON'T!!
As Lyle and Katy moan, losing consciousness:
LYLE & KATY
Don't believe . . .
Swirling dust fills the room, all that's left of the
vampires, save for a few visages that float here and there,
like spirits trying to cling to reality.
Through the swirl Dorian is still screaming "I DON'T BELIEVE
THIS IS HAPPENING" but it seems far away, under the sound of
the wind.
Dorian begins falling, in slow motion, through the dust cloud
and what looks like splintering boards.
He lands in slow motion, losing consciousness, neck bleeding,
amid fallen rubble.
INT. A ROOM - THE CASTLE - DAY
Willard Jarrett hurries in from a corridor. He stops and
looks down in horror.
Part of the floor is missing, collapsed. Dorian lies,
unconscious and bleeding, on the rubble-strewn floor of the
room below this one.
WILLARD
Dorian!
EXTREME CLOSE-UP: DORIAN
somewhere else now. He begins groggily opening his eyes.
WILLARD (O.S.)
Dorian . . .
INT. A HOSPITAL ROOM - ROMANIA - DAY
Willard and Sonya are at his bedside as Dorian is awaking.
Also present is a ROMANIAN NURSE, who will linger briefly and
leave.
Dorian, neck bandaged, looks around, Willard holding his hand.
DORIAN
Where's this? Where are we?
WILLARD
In Brasov. You little bugger. You
wandered off alone, in a closed-off
part of the castle. You fell
through an old wooden floor.
DORIAN
No . . . No, wait, that - that's
not what happened.
WILLARD
Don't try to deny it. That's where
we found you. One of the nails cut
your little neck open. Lucky for us
you're alive.
DORIAN
What about Lyle and Katy?
WILLARD
Who?
DORIAN
Lyle and Katy. They were with me.
WILLARD
There was no one with you, Dorian.
You wandered off alone. And I hope
you've learned your lesson.
Dorian looks very confused.
EXT. A U.S. AIRPORT - DAY
A U.S. airlines jet touches down.
INT. DR. RAY'S OFFICE DOOR - DAY
The plaque reads DR. MICHAEL S. RAY, HEMATOLOGY.
OVERLAP SOUND:
RAY (V.O.)
Three weeks in a row . . .
INT. DR. RAY'S OFFICE - DAY
Dr. Ray is reporting test results to Dorian and Willard.
Dorian has quite a scar on his neck.
RAY
The hematocrit ratio continues to
hold at forty-five percent, with no
sign of increase. None.
WILLARD
But with Dorian that's unheard of.
RAY
Yes, it is.
WILLARD
What does it mean?
RAY
I don't know what it means, Mister
Jarrett. But apparently Dorian no
longer has polycythemia.
EXT. A LIMO MOVING IN TRAFFIC - DAY (TEN MINUTES LATER)
An argument is going inside the limo:
WILLARD (V.O.)
It's gone into remission, Dorian,
that's all. Let's be glad! I
don't want to hear any more about
vampires.
INT. THE LIMO - DAY
The CHAUFFEUR is driving Dorian and Willard home.
DORIAN
But Daddy, that's what happened!
WILLARD
They do not exist.
DORIAN
They had this blood doctor, see,
doing blood experiments, for a
vampire cure, and he came up with a
cure for what I had. So I got an
injection. And Dracula did the
injecting.
WILLARD
I don't believe what I'm hearing.
Why don't they give this cure to
the world? Why be so selective?
DORIAN
'Cause they can't go public, that's
why. What would happen to 'em
then? They're vampires.
WILLARD
Oh, I see. They have to keep the
lid on till they decide to come out
of the coffin.
DORIAN
Okay, don't believe me! What about
your shrink Doctor Gross? Ask him
when you see him. He was there.
WILLARD
I won't be seeing him.
DORIAN
Why not?
WILLARD
I, uh - I understand he left town.
DORIAN
About the same time we left for
Romania?
WILLARD
Just a coincidence.
DORIAN
Why did he leave?
WILLARD
Some trouble with a patient.
That's irrelevant. I'm sure he
didn't go to Romania.
DORIAN
He did too.
WILLARD
He did not. There were no vampires.
DORIAN
There were too, Daddy. And there
still are - there must be. I'm
going to prove it.
WILLARD
Where have I heard that before?
Willard turns his attention to the scenery, as if the
argument's over and he's won.
Dorian fumes in frustration, then
DORIAN'S ATLAS MAP OF ROMANIA
again fills the screen. We zero in on:
EXT. BRAN CASTLE - REESTABLISHING - DAY
Majestic in its mountain fastness.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY
A tour bus (a later model than the one seen earlier) is
approaching the castle.
On the roadside, the peasant woman, several years older now,
crosses herself as before, with a weary shake of the head, as
if to say "not again."
EXT. FRONT OF CASTLE - DAY
The tour bus pulls up and stops.
EXT. FRONT OF CASTLE - DAY (TWO MINUTES LATER)
A YOUNG WOMAN, pretty, early 20's, is among the TOURISTS who
have disembarked. She excitedly snaps a photo of the castle.
As she's readying her camera for the next photo:
YOUNG MAN (O.S.)
Some castle, eh?
She glances at the YOUNG MAN beside her. He's handsome,
early 20's, intellectual in his horn-rimmed glasses.
As she looks through her viewfinder at the castle:
YOUNG WOMAN
Yes, it certainly is.
She snaps a photo.
YOUNG MAN
Your first time here?
YOUNG WOMAN
Sure is. You've been here before?
YOUNG MAN
Once. I'm Dorian. Dorian Jarrett.
YOUNG WOMAN
Hi, Dorian. I'm Lynn, Lynn Haven.
I'm a grad student, anthropology.
I'm here to do work on the Szekler
community.
DORIAN
Yeah? I'm in English lit. I'll be
starting my thesis this fall.
LYNN
What's it on?
DORIAN
Subliminal sex in the works of Bram
Stoker. And I have this theory -
which I hope to prove - that Dracula
really existed.
LYNN
Oh really?
DORIAN
That's why I've come back.
INT. MAIN HALL - THE CASTLE - DAY
Ioan, who is gray now, greets the assembled tourists,
including Dorian and Lynn.
IOAN
I am Ioan. I shall be your guide
through Bran Castle. At all times
during the tour, you will kindly
stay with the group. This way,
please.
INT. A GALLERY - DAY
Dorian and Lynn are lagging behind Ioan and the others.
Their dialogue overlaps Ioan's speech, which fades away:
IOAN
During the Second World War,
Transylvania was annexed by
Hungary. Then after the war -
DORIAN
Tell me something. Being a student
of anthropology, what do you think
about collective consciousness?
LYNN
That sounds more like a subject
for psychology. I'm not even sure
what it means.
DORIAN
I wasn't sure either. Before.
LYNN
So? Why should I believe in
collective consciousness?
DORIAN
Wait till I tell ya. When I first
came here - that was, let's see . . .
As they move off, Dorian's voice fading away, the portrait of
Vlad Tepes, with the large evil eyes, is still on the wall,
and almost seems to be watching them.
INT. THE STUDY - DAY
Dorian enters from the corridor, looks around with pleased
recognition. He motions for Lynn to come in, which she does.
Dorian looks the room over, Lynn leaving the door open.
There's nice carpet on the floor, everything looks fairly
new.
DORIAN
This is it. It's different now,
but this is the room.
LYNN
What do you mean?
DORIAN
This is where I met Vlad. "Vlad
short for Vladimir."
LYNN
Dorian -
DORIAN
(interrupting)
Lynn, think about it: How many
people in the world - modern,
primitive - believe vampires may
really exist? Why, there must be
millions. And all the tourists at
the castle that day - I'll bet half
of them believed too. And here I
was - sort of the believer of
believers. And Lyle and Katy.
It all came together, here at Bran
Castle.
LYNN
I hate to say it, Dorian, but it
sounds to me like so much wishful
thinking.
DORIAN
That's what it was, in a way. It's
like mind over matter. There's a
way, yet to be fathomed, in which
what we collectively think and
believe - "we" being enough people -
can make something happen or be. I
had an experience that proves it -
if I can prove I had the experience.
Dorian looks around. He seems suddenly to remember something.
FLASHBACK - DORIAN
desperate, pressing his back to the door, then looking at his
finger, cut, dripping blood on the floor. Vlad grabs Dorian's
wrist.
BACK TO SCENE
Dorian looks down at the carpet by the doorway. He closes
the door, then kneels in front of it, to lift the edge of the
carpet and look beneath it.
LYNN
What are you doing?
DORIAN
Looking for bloodstains.
The wooden floor exposed is clean. Not a trace of a bloodstain.
DORIAN (cont'd)
They could have replaced the wood.
The door opens, hitting Dorian in the head.
Dorian gets up holding his head, Lynn comforting him, as
displeased Ioan steps into the room.
IOAN
Are you all right, sir?
DORIAN
Yes.
IOAN
You are at fault. I said "Kindly
stay with the group." What were
you doing?
Dorian and Ioan stare at each other. Dorian seems to fish
for some tell-tale reaction:
DORIAN
Looking for bloodstains.
IOAN
Bloodstains?
DORIAN
I'm Dorian Jarrett.
IOAN
How do you do. You are to come
join the others this instant.
INT. THE CORRIDOR - DAY
Ioan steps out of the study and waits. Dorian and Lynn come
out of the study and dutifully head off down the corridor,
Ioan following.
EXT. FRONT OF CASTLE - DAY
Ioan is bidding farewell to the tourists as they are exiting
the castle to head for their bus.
Ioan barely glances at Dorian and Lynn as they come out and
walk a few yards away.
DORIAN
Nothing's the same. But it
happened. I know it. Maybe
they're gone now. Maybe I
destroyed them. Forever.
But it still happened once.
IOAN
Mister Jarrett . . .
Dorian turns to find Ioan standing by him, the last tourists
heading toward the bus.
IOAN (cont'd)
May I speak with you a moment?
Ioan and Dorian step a few feet away, out of Lynn's hearing.
Ioan looks Dorian in the eye for a moment - then starts
quietly singing "Varney the Vampire."
Breaking into a smile, Dorian joins in - singing at least the
lines he remembers.
Ioan and Dorian start dancing around a little as they sing,
louder now, the tourists stopping to stare.
Ioan and Dorian strike poses at the end of their dance, and
laugh. Then Ioan notes the tourists by the bus staring at
them.
Ioan straightens up in a dignified manner. He gives Dorian
a little pat on the back.
IOAN (cont'd)
Good to see you again.
Ioan turns and heads back into the castle.
Dorian looks happy and relieved as he steps back over to
amused but bewildered Lynn.
LYNN
And what was that supposed to mean?
DORIAN
That it's true.
In a glorious mood, Dorian offers Lynn his arm.
DORIAN (cont'd)
Would you like to have dinner this
evening?
As Lynn takes his arm:
LYNN
Yes, I would.
As they start walking toward the bus:
DORIAN
Have you tried the ciorba taranesca?
LYNN
No, I haven't.
DORIAN
It's sort of a national dish. It's
delicious.
INT. THE CASTLE - DAY
Various SHOTS devoid of people: a corridor, a suit of armor,
a stairway, the Vlad Tepes portrait, another corridor. And
lastly a closed door.
The plaque on the door reads CARETAKER.
INT. CARETAKER'S QUARTERS - DAY
Caretaker Lyle, sitting slumped in a chair, slams shut a book
entitled "Hematology," tosses it aside with disgust.
Lyle is at his wit's end. He's pale, but he hasn't aged, in
his vampiric black.
Lyle hears a tapping sound.
He looks over at the monkey in its cage.
The monkey, a little gray now, is beckoning. Lyle jumps up
with great hope, hurries over to the cage.
Through the bars the monkey hands him a little piece of
paper.
LYLE
Katy! Katy, he's got something!
Katy, in vampiric black, comes out of an adjoining room. She
hurries over, as the monkey hands Lyle a second piece of
paper.
Lyle eagerly puts the two pieces together and reads. He
reads it two times and three, Katy waiting.
KATY
Lyle, what is it?
LYLE
It's nothing!
Lyle throws away the pieces. He's distraught.
LYLE (cont'd)
At this rate we'll never find a
cure.
KATY
Give him time, Lyle.
LYLE
Time? I thought this monkey had
some smarts! He can't do
anything but peel bananas!
(to monkey)
No more bananas!
The monkey goes into a rage, starts filling the air with
little pieces of paper.
LYLE (cont'd)
You heard me! No more peeling, you
piddling primate!
The monkey is pitching a fit, squawking, rattling its cage.
Lyle moves right up to the bars.
LYLE (cont'd)
You give me a formula, you can have
a banana! Till then, no -
Through the bars the monkey grabs Lyle by the hair. Lyle
yelps, can't get free without losing his scalp:
LYLE (cont'd)
YAAAAA!! Okay, you can have a
banana! YIEE!! Katy - YAAAAA!!
As Katy is running to get one, the monkey furiously yanking
Lyle's hair, Lyle screaming:
LYLE (cont'd)
GET THIS MONKEY A BANANA!!
EXT. THE CASTLE - DAY
A black helicopter lands. As the engine stops, its blades'
wash subsiding, Ioan moves to meet a VISITOR emerging from
the chopper.
The visitor whom Ioan greets is Bogdan.
IOAN
Welcome, Grand Boyar, sir.
BOGDAN
Ioan. It is good to be back.
IOAN
You are the first to arrive this
year.
They hear a distant cry of pain (and something about "A
BANANA!") from a window high above.
IOAN (cont'd)
The caretakers, sir. The worst
we've ever had.
Bogdan starts toward the castle, then stops, as if remembering
something.
BOGDAN
Oh - by the way. Dorian Jarrett.
IOAN
He was here, sir, just a few days
ago. He believes as strongly as
ever.
Bogdan looks pleased, though not surprised.
BOGDAN
I don't know what we'd do without
him.
As Bogdan and Ioan move to enter the castle:
OVERLAP SOUND:
The opening riffs of "Varney the Vampire."
INT. THE "BUCKET O' BLOOD" - DAY
The country rock singer and band are again performing "Varney
the Vampire" for 50 or so partying vampires.
Bogdan makes eyes over drinks with - by golly, it's Dr. Ray's
vampiric nurse;
Yolanda dances with - whattaya know, it's Dr. Ray himself;
Thug #1 flirts with the vampiric maid;
Lyle, with Katy, shows something in "Hematology" to the
monkey, who rips out the page;
The former caretaker is there with her wolf;
Jukes tries his latest concoction on Dracula.
Things look "alive," if not "well," at the Vampire Vortex.
FADE OUT.
THE END
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