House of Dracula Page #3

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.

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