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Get them out of here!

I didn't come here to

be put on exhibition.

Come, come now.

Take it easy.

This is Dr. Edelmann.

He's come to help you.

Dr. Edelmann!

Yes.

You wanted to see me?

That's why I came to Visaria.

In the hope that

you could help me.

It's too late now.

What seems to be

your trouble, my boy?

Do you believe that

a man can be transformed

into an animal?

[Edelmann]

I believe anything can

happen in a person's mind.

[Talbot]

This is not in my mind.

Doctor,

have you ever heard

of the pentagram?

Five-pointed star.

The mark of the beast.

When the full moon rises,

I turn into a werewolf...

with only one desire

in my mind... to kill!

Listen to me, Talbot.

There's no such

thing as a werewolf.

It's a belief that exists

only in your mind.

[Growling]

Doctor, isn't there

something you can do?

Not until morning,

when this passes.

Bring him to me then.

Put him in my care,

and I'll do all I can for him.

Oh, I didn't hear you.

The doctor

will see you now.

Do you think he can help me?

He's done

some wonderful things.

Then why has he kept me

waiting here all day?

Doesn't he realize that tonight...

I'm sorry.

I know he'll do

whatever he can for me.

Good afternoon, Doctor.

Sit down, Mr. Talbot.

What have you got to tell me?

In your case, my boy,

diagnosis is extremely difficult.

But the examination you made

this morning, the X-rays.

The examination

discloses one condition,

pressure upon certain

parts of the brain.

This condition coupled

with your belief...

that the moon can bring

about a change...

accomplishes exactly that.

During the period in which

your reasoning processes

give way to self-hypnosis,

the glands which govern your

metabolism get out of control,

like a steam engine

without a balance wheel.

When this happens, the glands

generate an abnormal supply

of certain hormones.

In your case, those which

bring about the physical

transformation you experience.

But explaining it doesn't help.

What can you do

about it, operate?

A surgical operation

to enlarge the cranial cavity

is a long and dangerous one.

Then there's nothing

you can do to help me.

There might be.

Come here, my boy.

Under tropical conditions,

which we have tried

to duplicate here,

this hybrid plant,

clavaria formosa,

produces a mold which

we've been able to distill...

Well, a substance which

possesses the property...

of softening any hard structure

composed of calcium salts.

Bone, for instance.

With this medium,

it might be possible,

without surgery,

to reshape the

cranial cavity and thus

eliminate the pressure.

You can do that now?

Can you?

Unfortunately, it will take

some time to produce mold

in sufficient quantity.

[Talbot]

Tonight the moon

will be full again.

What can you do

to help me now?

Only what you did

for yourself last night.

Confine you.

No, Doctor.

No.

I can't go

through that again.

[Edelmann]

Talbot, listen.

Talbot. Talbot!

Talbot, come back!

[Edelmann]

Seigfried!

Seigfried!

There are many caves

along the coastline

here made by the tides.

There's still a chance

that he can be saved.

We must think of the

danger to Dr. Edelmann.

If Mr. Talbot has been swept

into the cave down there,

he's still under

the spell of the moon.

We must wait 'til it sets.

When it does, if he's still alive,

he'll try to destroy himself again.

That's why the doctor must time

his actions to the very moment.

If he can find him just

as the seizure passes,

and his reason returns...

Perhaps he can persuade

him to want to live.

Here we work half a night

to get this thing rigged up...

and then he says,

"We'll wait a while."

What's going on

around here anyway?

Shh, that's

Dr. Edelmann's business.

Strange business,

if you ask me.

Shh!

All right,

swing me out.

Lower away.

Easy.

All right!

I might've killed you.

Why did you

follow me down here?

To bring you back, my boy.

Back to a life of

misery and despair?

I only wanted to die.

You wanted to die,

but instead you will live...

'cause God

in his divine workings...

has lead you to the very thing

which makes help possible.

Look about you.

The temperature and humidity

down here are ideal...

for growing the

spore-producing plants.

Before the next full moon,

we should have more

than enough to help you.

I wish I could

believe that, Doctor.

You can, my boy.

But you must do your part.

You must want to live.

The Frankenstein monster.

That must be the

skeleton of Dr. Niemann...

who revitalized him years ago.

As the story goes, the villagers

drove them into the swamp...

and they went down

in the quicksand.

After all these years,

the mud has brought them here.

He's still alive.

He's indestructible.

Frankenstein's creation

is man's challenge to the

laws of life and death.

Doctor!

Dr. Edelmann!

Doctor, look here.

There must be a way

out of here into the castle.

[Edelmann]

History mentions

an old torture chamber.

But its entrance

was sealed up years ago.

[Edelmann]

He was made bit by bit,

piece by piece.

The undying monster.

The triumphant climax

of Frankenstein's genius.

The heart that Frankenstein

gave him never died.

The spark of life is still

there waiting to be revived.

Dr. Edelmann, this thing

destroyed Frankenstein.

It's brought death to all

who have tried to follow

in his footsteps.

Is that poor creature

responsible for what he is?

It's a thing of violence

to whom death would be

a merciful release.

Can man sit in judgment

over life and death?

The evil he creates,

he can also destroy.

That would be murder.

Think what

you're doing, Doctor.

To bring him back again

would unleash worse than

murder upon humanity.

That helpless body

is man's responsibility.

Man's responsibility

is to his fellow man.

Perhaps you're right, Nina.

Frankenstein's monster

must never wreak havoc again.

##["Moonlight Sonata"]

##

Baron.

I didn't hear you come in.

Please go on.

##

You like it?

It breathes the

spirit of the night.

They played it the evening

we met at the concert.

I'd forgotten...

until I saw you again.

Perhaps I wanted

you to remember.

##

##[Haunting Music]

I've never heard this music

before, yet I'm playing it.

You're creating it...

for me.

It frightens me.

It's beautiful.

It's the music of the world

from which I come.

It makes me see

strange things.

People who are dead,

yet they're alive.

Mine is a world

without material needs.

It calls to me,

but I'm afraid.

The fear will pass as the music

becomes fixed in your mind.

It will make you

long to be there.

##[Peaceful Music]

##["Moonlight Sonata"]

Why do you stop?

Play the music again.

There's something

Dr. Edelmann...

told me to do.

Roll up your sleeve,

please, Baron.

The music will

come to you again.

My world is waiting for you.

Forsake the cross so that

you can join me there.

Your world is

coming closer to me.

But I'm afraid.

It is a world without fear.

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