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00:08:55I applaud you, Wainwright.
00:08:57You are in the tradition of Houdini and Blackstone before you.
00:09:00I am not a magician.
00:09:02Indeed, you are not.
00:09:04You are a pretender among a coven of pretenders.
00:09:08And you are rude, sir, wherever you are.
00:09:11Excuse me.
00:09:12I have been excusing you all evening, Wainwright.
00:09:15You and your feeble trickery, mere illusion, child's play.
00:09:22You need a lesson in manners, my friend.
00:09:25We are not friends.
00:09:34Mr. Wainwright, that was fascinating.
00:09:36Absolutely fascinating.
00:09:38It was more than mere fascination, my dear.
00:09:41Please, please, I need to talk to you.
00:09:44You were resisting my hypnosis.
00:09:46I could feel it.
00:09:47I know, and I'm sorry.
00:09:49Can't we try again?
00:09:50I've got a lot on my mind.
00:09:51I'm sorry, not now.
00:09:52But it's my mother.
00:09:54That's why we're here.
00:09:55Please.
00:09:56I'm afraid that I am here for a purpose also.
00:09:59Perhaps some other time.
00:10:01But...
00:10:03Well, what do you think now, Elliot?
00:10:05Are you still intrigued with our little society of the occult here?
00:10:09Is that man Wainwright?
00:10:11Fascinating gentleman, don't you think?
00:10:14No charlatan, I can assure you.
00:10:17His new book will silence all the daughters once and for all.
00:10:21This is no mere folly, Elliot.
00:10:24Be certain before you join us.
00:10:26Do you think it could really help?
00:10:28She's haunted by the memory of her mother even more than I.
00:10:32The wonders of the supernatural are at your disposal, Elliot.
00:10:35They always have been.
00:10:37Now, you're a skeptic.
00:10:39If you could train yourself to deliver your spirit, to submit to greater powers,
00:10:44the whole world would open to you.
00:10:46If you feel the spirit power generated here tonight, it's all about us.
00:10:51It pervades our very presence now.
00:10:56Look at the digital lights.
00:10:59Hmm? Hmm?
00:11:02Don't be absurd.
00:11:04Your feeble gods and superstitions are useless here.
00:11:08You said you'd help.
00:11:10And I will, Stephen.
00:11:12Once we give Wainwright's book a proper send-off.
00:11:16Now, if you'll excuse me.
00:11:20You all right, dear?
00:11:22We're wasting our time, Father. No one here really cares.
00:11:25Be patient, Steph.
00:11:26Stanley Radcliffe is one of my best friends, and he said he'd help.
00:11:29I'm not that old fool.
00:11:30All he cares about is occultism and his weird little circle of friends.
00:11:33Stephanie!
00:11:34Oh, I'm sorry, Father, but it's true.
00:11:36What good is the supernatural if it doesn't work for you?
00:11:40I'm sorry. I just can't help it.
00:11:42I'm trying to help, Stephanie.
00:11:44My mother didn't just die, and you know that as well as I do.
00:11:47She was young and vital.
00:11:50And I've got to know, Father.
00:11:52And I'm gonna find out with or without your help.
00:11:55I have some ideas of my own I'm going to pursue.
00:12:03My daughter, she's...
00:12:04An excitable young woman.
00:12:06Ever since her mother died.
00:12:08They were very close.
00:12:10Maybe if she hadn't been away at college at the time...
00:12:14Oh, excuse me.
00:12:15You were Dr. Gregorio.
00:12:17Radcliffe's been telling me about you. Stephen Elliott.
00:12:20Unlike our enterprising young author, I deal not in illusion, nor am I a magician.
00:12:24I'll leave that to Wainwright and his Fingali fixation.
00:12:28Your daughter's a fine young woman.
00:12:31I deal in psychiatry, Mr. Elliott.
00:12:34I'm in the book.
00:12:36Anatole Gregorio.
00:12:38And when you've finished subjecting your daughter to these charlatans...
00:12:42You might consider providing professional help.
00:12:45That is, if you care as much about her as you say you do.
00:12:49She does need care.
00:12:55Oh, I'm sorry.
00:12:57Oh, how clumsy of me.
00:13:00Well, it wasn't deliberate.
00:13:04I feel your eyes punishing me.
00:13:07I don't punish.
00:13:09Well, I need another drink.
00:13:11Would you join me?
00:13:13I don't drink.
00:13:15Very well.
00:13:17I'll go get another drink.
00:13:20Would you join me?
00:13:22I don't drink.
00:13:24Very well.
00:13:25Just trying to make amends.
00:13:27Perhaps another time.
00:13:33I enjoyed your book, Dr. Wainwright.
00:13:35Well, thank you very much.
00:13:37You know, you even look like Sfingali.
00:13:40Yes, many people have said that.
00:13:43Excuse me.
00:13:45Won't you join me at the bar for a moment?
00:13:47Well, thank you very much. It'd be my pleasure.
00:13:49Excuse me.
00:13:55There's one question I meant to ask you.
00:13:59Tell me, how do I know that you're really the second Sfingali?
00:14:04You saw my demonstrations.
00:14:06Oh, yes, your demonstration was very persuasive.
00:14:11After all, those tricks could have been performed by any competent magician.
00:14:15It was mere illusion.
00:14:16I find the fact that my publisher has not read my book highly insulting.
00:14:21But of course I haven't read your book.
00:14:24If you'll forgive me for not using your stage name, Dr. Wainwright,
00:14:28let me remind you that before you entered this business of illusions,
00:14:32you were famous as a brilliant university scholar.
00:14:35That's why we bought your manuscript.
00:14:38For one talent does not imply the other.
00:14:40Many brilliant scholars are useless fools.
00:14:42So are many authors.
00:14:45I believe in my psychic powers.
00:14:48I do not doubt your psychic powers, Sfingali.
00:14:52It's the character of Dr. Wainwright that raises a certain difficult question.
00:14:59The reason that Sfingali chose me for his incarnation and manifestation
00:15:03are clearly outlined in my book, copies of which, thanks to you,
00:15:07are appearing in any bookstore in this country if you'll excuse me, Sir Stephen.
00:15:12Just a minute, Dr. Wainwright.
00:15:16If you are really the second Sfingali,
00:15:20then you'll remember who I am.
00:15:23The blood of the road.
00:15:40And no one's been fooled.
00:15:44Dr. Wainwright, everyone has been fooled.
00:15:49Except me.
00:15:52Me.
00:15:56What do you want?
00:16:04There's no way that anybody can not know if it's obvious to you.
00:16:08It's obvious to everybody else.
00:16:12I'm telling you.
00:16:16No one imagines that you're really Sfingali.
00:16:19Everyone thinks it's a conventional publicity stunt.
00:16:22A man writes a book about reincarnation, of course he claims to be reincarnated himself.
00:16:27Especially in the case of a character as strong as Sfingali.
00:16:35They all think it's a gimmick that we created to add a little charm and glamour to a scholarly treatise.
00:16:41A scholarly treatise, by the way, that's a bestseller.
00:16:45It's the clearest proof to me that everyone has been fooled.
00:16:52Enjoy the show, Dr. Wainwright.
00:17:13All the time.
00:17:17Why?
00:17:18Life gave him a small brain and a big appetite.
00:17:24He thinks it's the other way around.
00:17:28Who is he?
00:17:31Roland's the manager of this club.
00:17:34Although he'll take what he can get on the side.
00:17:38Because he's a pimp at heart, he thinks everybody's that way.
00:17:43You know, he even takes money from poor Bobo.
00:17:47Bobo?
00:17:49The magician?
00:17:51What's wrong with Bobo?
00:17:53Bobo can't hear and he can't speak.
00:17:56The way he expresses himself is through his magic tricks.
00:18:01Don't you think that's fantastic?
00:18:04Bobo lies with his magic.
00:18:06Ladies and gentlemen, Bobo, the magician.
00:18:12Now, ladies and gentlemen, the beautiful butterfly, Noel.
00:18:37Let's have it.
00:19:00What about a man who doesn't have to lie to get what he wants?
00:19:04I don't follow what you mean.
00:19:08Suppose that there was a man who could make you do whatever he wanted you to.
00:19:13Like a hypnotist.
00:19:15Is that possible?
00:19:16No.
00:19:18You'd have to be willing.
00:19:21I mean, a hypnotist can't make you do what you don't want to do.
00:19:28Although...
00:19:31I do believe that a certain kind of man has power over women.
00:19:37Wife being what it is, I'm certain this happens all the time.
00:19:41To be swept off her feet by the look in a man's eyes, is that a young girl's fantasy?
00:19:46No.
00:19:48That's an old man's fantasy.
00:19:59I guess it's everybody's fantasy.
00:20:22I'm here.
00:20:27I want a life.
00:20:31We need a pure soul.
00:20:34She'll do.
00:20:39How much time do I have?
00:20:41Seven days.
00:21:04I'm sorry, Mr. Wainwright.
00:21:23I don't mean to intrude, but I really have to see you.
00:21:26I see no one without an appointment, especially at this hour.
00:21:29Please, don't ask me to leave.
00:21:31There is no one else.
00:21:33At least hear me.
00:21:35With your knowledge of Svengali and his mental powers,
00:21:38and after watching you this evening,
00:21:41I just know you can reunite us.
00:21:43Bring us together somehow, my mother and I.
00:21:46I can feel it.
00:21:48Can't you?
00:21:51Perhaps.
00:21:53Just for a few moments.
00:22:08Tell me about your mother.
00:22:11She was the picture of health, Mr. Wainwright.
00:22:14She couldn't just die.
00:22:15She was full of life.
00:22:18Tell me what you think happened.
00:22:22Well, there was a peaceful smile on her face when her body was found.
00:22:26But she died violently.
00:22:27I know that, Mr. Wainwright.
00:22:29Why else would I have these terrible nightmares about her dying?
00:22:33What do you expect from me?
00:22:35If you could reunite us in some way,
00:22:39just so I could be sure my mother rests in peace.
00:22:45I have no power.
00:22:47That wasn't me this evening.
00:22:49Then Svengali, or whoever it is you call upon.
00:22:55I'd gladly trade places with her.
00:22:59Look into my eyes.
00:23:02Deep into my eyes.
00:23:06Deeper.
00:23:09Think of nothing but my voice.
00:23:12Yes.
00:23:14Svengali hears you, my dear.
00:23:18This time you will pay attention.
00:23:21Yes.
00:23:23Anyone so willing to trade places with the dead,
00:23:27you must find a place for such selflessness.
00:23:31Yes.
00:23:32Deeper.
00:23:35I want you to visualize your mother.
00:23:39Everything that's happening.
00:23:41Tell me exactly what you're seeing.
00:23:43Her face.
00:23:45Tell me what you're seeing.
00:23:48Her face.
00:23:53It's becoming pale.
00:23:56Drawn.
00:23:59Shock-wise.
00:24:04And her blood.
00:24:06Her blood.
00:24:07Her blood is being drained from her.
00:24:10Go on.
00:24:13She's making noises.
00:24:16Like she's in agony.
00:24:18Oh, no, don't.
00:24:22That sounds awful.
00:24:28She's faceless.
00:24:32And now she's limp.
00:24:35Like this.
00:24:38Someone must pay for this, Stephanie.
00:24:41Yes.
00:24:42The deeds of fiends must be paid for in kind.
00:24:46It will obey only the will of Svengali.
00:24:50And you will not doubt his power ever again, will you, Stephanie?
00:24:55No, Svengali.
00:24:57Then Stephanie will punish the enemies of Svengali as well.
00:25:02Yes.
00:25:41Oh, no.
00:26:11Oh, no.
00:26:41Oh, no.
00:27:11Oh, no.
00:27:41Oh, no.
00:28:11Oh, no.
00:28:41Oh, no.
00:29:11Oh, no.
00:29:41Oh, no.
00:30:11Oh, no.
00:30:41Oh, no.
00:30:44Oh, no.
00:30:47Oh, no.
00:30:50Oh, no.
00:30:53Oh, no.
00:30:56Oh, no.
00:30:59Oh, no.
00:31:02Oh, no.
00:31:05Oh, no.
00:31:08Oh, no.
00:31:38Oh, no.
00:31:41Oh, no.
00:31:44Oh, no.
00:31:47Oh, no.
00:31:50Blessed be the name of Satan, king of the universe.
00:31:56Blessed be the seven-horned beast.
00:32:01Blessed be all his incarnations of evil.
00:32:25Stephanie, for heaven's sakes, what are you doing?
00:32:32Stephanie, darling. Stephanie, darling.
00:32:35Damn yourself.
00:32:36Stephanie, what are you saying?
00:32:38Damn yourself.
00:32:39Darling, what are you saying?
00:32:41Damn yourself.
00:32:43Stephanie.
00:32:50God, what's happening?
00:32:52Stephanie.
00:32:54Stephanie, darling.
00:33:01Effective instruments of persuasion, wouldn't you say?
00:33:06They were used at Loudun.
00:33:08You know, to exorcise the devils of Loudun.
00:33:13Huxley wrote a book on it.
00:33:17Seems the good sisters were consumed with lust.
00:33:20Rushilu, in turn, had the local padre burned at the stake.
00:33:26Similar to that one over there.
00:33:29It originated during the first crusade.
00:33:32Hadley.
00:33:34Hadley, this is grisly.
00:33:35This is hardly the place for a meeting.
00:33:37Especially since the way Stephanie's been acting.
00:33:40So you say.
00:33:42Sounds like your daughter had a genuine flair for the dramatic.
00:33:47No doubt something she inherited from Valerie.
00:33:51Touché, Hadley.
00:33:53But neither my wife nor my daughter are a joking matter.
00:33:57These last few months have been too bizarre.
00:33:59Ever since Valerie was buried.
00:34:01Your wife died long before that, my friend.
00:34:04She was preparing for death.
00:34:06From what you told me, she gave you every sign and you ignored it.
00:34:10Just as you're ignoring the same signs.
00:34:13Oh, Stephanie.
00:34:15I'm not interested in your supernatural speculations.
00:34:18My daughter's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
00:34:20And so...
00:34:27No need to be harsh, Elliot.
00:34:29Merely trying to help.
00:34:33I'm sorry.
00:34:36We just haven't been ourselves these last few months.
00:34:39Hadley.
00:34:41Hadley.
00:34:42Stephanie seems possessed.
00:34:45The memory of her mother is tormenting her beyond reason.
00:34:48Possession, you say.
00:34:52Something we might be able to deal with.
00:34:56Hadley.
00:34:57Let's get out of here.
00:34:59Elliot.
00:35:01We're in the company of sorcerers.
00:35:03Wizards, diviners.
00:35:05Shamans of the highest order.
00:35:07Can't you feel them?
00:35:08Trolls are eyes, man.
00:35:09They're amongst us.
00:35:11Hadley, for God's sake.
00:35:13Gods.
00:35:14Damn your soul, Elliot.
00:35:17I speak to you of immortality and you speak to me of gods.
00:35:20It's blasphemy.
00:35:22Where's the adventure in your soul?
00:35:25You see these torches?
00:35:28Relics of the Druids who burned them 3,500 years ago.
00:35:33At Stonehenge.
00:35:35A sect that worshipped the sun by day.
00:35:38And lit up the skies at night in homage to the pagan spirit.
00:35:42Beelzebub.
00:35:44Azazel.
00:35:45Abaddon.
00:35:46Mephisto.
00:35:48Belial.
00:35:49Elbis.
00:35:51All the messengers of his satanic majesty.
00:35:56Prepare yourself for the visitation of demons.
00:35:59Elliot.
00:36:01We must purge your doubt.
00:36:04Not only yours.
00:36:06But those of your bewitched daughter as well.
00:36:22What do you do?
00:36:25You really want to know?
00:36:28I'm a magician.
00:36:32But that's not important.
00:36:34The important thing is that you and I have lunch tomorrow.
00:36:39Hey, Shelby, come on.
00:36:41I want to get home.
00:36:47Okay.
00:36:51Okay.
00:37:03Okay.
00:37:04Tomorrow.
00:37:07No tricks.
00:37:09No tricks.
00:37:18Wow.
00:37:22How did you do that?
00:37:24Tomorrow.
00:37:46Steph.
00:37:49Mother, talk to me from the rivers of eternity.
00:37:55Call to me as I call to you.
00:38:01Guide my soul so that I might join you.
00:38:07Speak to me.
00:38:20From the springs of fire.
00:38:29I instruct you.
00:38:34Leave me alone.
00:38:41Tread not this path.
00:38:47For it will destroy you.
00:38:54Leave this black magic.
00:39:02Leave me be.
00:39:10Stephanie.
00:39:18And I just didn't know who else to turn to, Doctor.
00:39:22It could be demonic possession, but that's not really my specialty, Mr. Elliot.
00:39:26Without the girl to examine.
00:39:28But I didn't want to move her. I was afraid to.
00:39:30I've been trying to think this thing out all night.
00:39:32I don't know whether to have her committed or what.
00:39:34It's just about light outside, and I was just about to go to sleep.
00:39:38Time doesn't exist for me, Doctor.
00:39:40You must leave. I insist.
00:39:44But, Doctor, you said you'd help just the other evening.
00:39:46But at a reasonable hour.
00:39:48But, Doctor, you must help me. Money's no object.
00:39:50I'll pay you anything that you like.
00:39:52I'd sell my very soul.
00:39:54Doctor, please.
00:39:56Stephanie's the only thing I have.
00:39:58She's the only thing I have left.
00:40:00Only her life means something to me.
00:40:02Please, I just want to see her happy once again.
00:40:04You see that Stephanie contacts me.
00:40:07Oh, thank God.
00:40:09You will help her.
00:40:11I've never been an advocate of psychiatry.
00:40:13I've never had a need to.
00:40:15But I just didn't know where else to turn.
00:40:17I'll make no promises, understand?
00:40:19Now, you must leave.
00:40:21I hope you don't think I've been rude.
00:40:23But I've been under such strain and such stress.
00:40:25Thank you, Doctor.
00:40:27Thanks, a premature.
00:40:29Now, you must leave.
00:40:31Of course, Doctor. Thank you.
00:40:33Thank you. Good night, Doctor.
00:40:39Good night.
00:41:09Good night.
00:41:29What sort of people come here?
00:41:32The rich, the very rich, and the unemployed.
00:41:35The unemployed?
00:41:37The artists.
00:41:40Svengali.
00:41:42Sir Stephen.
00:41:44Won't you join us?
00:41:46If I wouldn't be intruding.
00:41:50Sir Stephen, Mrs. Troby.
00:41:53Oh, I remember you from the club.
00:41:56Why did you call him Svengali?
00:41:58It's an old joke.
00:42:00I wrote a book on Svengali, and Stephen is my publisher.
00:42:03Oh.
00:42:06I enjoyed your dance.
00:42:08Tell me, what do you think about up there, huh?
00:42:13Gosh, I don't really think about anything.
00:42:15You know, it's just a job.
00:42:19I'm giving a party Saturday night.
00:42:21I hope you can both come.
00:42:24Wow, that would be wonderful.
00:42:26It's my birthday, and I have the day off.
00:42:30That is, if it's all right with you, John.
00:42:33I'm certain it's all right with Svengali.
00:42:39Excuse me. I'll be right back.
00:42:48What do you want with her?
00:42:58I must pass on to another incarnation.
00:43:04That's how it must be.
00:43:10But why her?
00:43:14Why is she so special?
00:43:16If you want a soul, let me get you a soul.
00:43:18Do you realize that if you don't follow my commands,
00:43:21your incarnation as John Wainwright will be canceled?
00:43:26I'm sorry.
00:43:29Please excuse the indiscretion.
00:43:31If you want her soul, she'll have it.
00:43:33What's wrong with you, Svengali?
00:43:36Are you beginning to feel emotional?
00:43:40Are you falling in love with this girl?
00:43:48I've been having difficulties with Dr. Wainwright.
00:43:51Difficulties? Of what sort?
00:43:56He's trying to reemerge.
00:43:58You know, if he reemerges, Svengali is finished forever.
00:44:03Not just Svengali.
00:44:06It's my last chance, too.
00:44:11The reason Wainwright is reemerging is because we are losing psychic energy.
00:44:16The only thing that can save us
00:44:19is an aggressive incorporation of a new psychic energy source.
00:44:24That's why we need that girl.
00:44:28What is she?
00:44:30She is a unique and unusual soul.
00:44:37We've been looking for someone like her for over 60 years.
00:44:40In fact, you were reincarnated just to bring her to us.
00:44:49Oh, and a new soul.
00:44:52Oh, what an intriguing place.
00:44:55I suspected as much.
00:44:57I knew you were one of us, Doctor.
00:45:00You know, no one at Radcliffe seems to know who you are.
00:45:03But I said that's one interesting man.
00:45:06Why, he radiates mystery and feelings of the occult
00:45:10while the rest of us merely flirt with the supernatural.
00:45:13And then Radcliffe said...
00:45:15Radcliffe is a fool.
00:45:17May I get you a glass of wine?
00:45:19Whatever you're having, Doctor.
00:45:29Your place really is spooky, Doctor.
00:45:41It's as though I were decorated by the devil.
00:45:50What's in here?
00:45:52Something forbidden and positively naughty, I'll bet.
00:46:03Yes, my dear.
00:46:05Positively naughty.
00:46:20Why, Doctor, you are wicked.
00:46:24I should have known.
00:46:27I've always wanted to make love in a coffin.
00:46:30You sly devil.
00:46:33I'll bet you knew all along.
00:46:38I'm sorry, Doctor.
00:46:40I'm sorry.
00:46:42I'm sorry.
00:46:44I'm sorry.
00:46:46You knew all along.
00:47:17No.
00:47:43I love you.
00:47:47And you...
00:47:49Do you live with somebody?
00:47:51No.
00:47:53Hiya, wanna party?
00:47:55Get in the car.
00:48:08Tell me, my dear, what would you do for $100 you wouldn't do for $20?
00:48:17Touch... Touch me.
00:48:20Oh, please.
00:48:23Do you like me?
00:48:25You know?
00:48:27Yes.
00:48:29Oh, I want...
00:48:32Touch me, please.
00:48:34Please.
00:48:36Is she satisfactory?
00:48:39After this initiation ceremony, we will find some uses for her.
00:48:45Where did you find her?
00:48:47What does it matter? Is this what's going to happen to Truby?
00:48:52Are you in love with her?
00:48:56You must not let your emotions interfere with the performance of your duty.
00:49:04What makes Truby so attractive to you?
00:49:09She has a beautiful soul.
00:49:11A rare and vital presence.
00:49:13I realize that by falling in love I risk my entire existence.
00:49:17But this is not the ordinary love for mere physical beauty.
00:49:21I am enamored with the soul of a sinner.
00:49:25We are losing power.
00:49:28Don't you understand that you cannot let this happen?
00:49:34Deliver Truby.
00:49:37You must watch over her.
00:49:41Don't use your power unless it is absolutely necessary.
00:49:50This is destroying me.
00:49:54No!
00:49:57No!
00:50:23Truby?
00:50:32No!
00:50:35No!
00:50:38No!
00:50:41No!
00:50:42We must have Truby.
00:50:44I thought that was fully understood, Wainwright.
00:50:47This is totally unnecessary to subject Truby to such torture.
00:50:51You are like a fool.
00:50:54You and I both know our own existence is at stake.
00:50:57Immortality, man.
00:51:00For God's sake.
00:51:02You don't understand the seriousness of this.
00:51:05Without the sacrifice of Truby we all perish.
00:51:08It's taken 60 years of searching for us to arrive at this point.
00:51:13Why else do you think Svengali's spirit has been reincarnated?
00:51:17Why else do you think we woo you, Wainwright?
00:51:21Or is it Svengali?
00:51:24I never know who is in control.
00:51:28Are you going to be all right?
00:51:30I'm fine, you old fool.
00:51:33Yes.
00:51:35That's more like it.
00:51:37Once Truby has paid our debt, you can have anyone you like.
00:51:42Stephanie would be perfect.
00:51:44Of course.
00:51:46She needs a strong, disciplined influence.
00:51:50A father's nothing more than a wimp.
00:51:53I can see Gregorio's already interested.
00:51:59I see you're easily distracted.
00:52:02All a part of your illness, I'm sure.
00:52:05That'll soon be behind you.
00:52:11You haven't said why you're here.
00:52:13Because of your condition, I expected to meet with you tomorrow as your father arranged.
00:52:18I'm not really sure why I'm here.
00:52:22Well, it's time you went home.
00:52:24I want you well rested for our little visit tomorrow.
00:52:28Besides, these people and their so-called power over the magic is non-existent.
00:52:35Ah, you're looking better already, my dear.
00:52:41Either your father is an alarmist, or you have found the medicine here among us, Stephanie.
00:52:47Leaving so early, Doctor?
00:52:50The ceremonies have barely started.
00:52:53I see soldier on our intimate little enclave.
00:52:57Just mysterious enough to arouse your curiosity, I should think.
00:53:01Her imagination is what created her problem, Radcliffe.
00:53:04A highly active one.
00:53:06I think it's time the patient took her imagination home and put it to bed.
00:53:10Don't be absurd. You're defeating our own purposes.
00:53:14I promised Elliot we would do everything we could
00:53:18to exercise whatever it is that's tormenting this poor child.
00:53:22The time is almost at hand.
00:53:25Come, Stephanie.
00:53:27Observe the altar.
00:53:29Observe the altar.
00:53:30Remove your hand, please.
00:53:33This woman is under my care, Radcliffe.
00:53:37Now.
00:53:38Don't abuse my hospitality, Doctor.
00:53:41You're exhausting my patience, as you always do.
00:53:45You are a guest here.
00:53:47This child needs treatment that only the purest magic can provide.
00:53:53I'm the leader of these proceedings.
00:53:56This enclave was organized for the patronization of his satanic majesty
00:54:01and for no other reason.
00:54:04You'll have to continue your futile experiments in psychiatry elsewhere.
00:54:13This is the domain of the demon god.
00:54:16No other shall celebrate in spirit
00:54:21or exercise their...
00:54:24their...
00:54:27Good evening, Radcliffe.
00:54:32Good evening.
00:54:44I don't know that I want to go.
00:54:47No one asked you what you wanted.
00:54:49You're still under that fool's insignificant power.
00:54:52I'm about to show you what real power is.
00:54:55Everlasting power.
00:54:58I'm sorry.
00:55:17Why do you want to be reunited with your mother?
00:55:19She may not want to meet with you.
00:55:21Oh, but she will.
00:55:23Be so sure.
00:55:25At last she's free.
00:55:27She's no longer enslaved by her limited existence.
00:55:31But her death, it was so gruesome.
00:55:34Yeah.
00:55:36I'm sure she left this particular world joyfully.
00:55:40Death can be a rapturous release.
00:55:45If only that were true.
00:55:48You still doubt me.
00:55:52Very well.
00:55:54You may ask her for yourself.
00:55:59You are joking.
00:56:07I promised your father I would rid you of your suspicions
00:56:10and bring you peace.
00:56:17Mother?
00:56:19Hello, dear.
00:56:23You look pale, drawn.
00:56:27You should be home resting.
00:56:31What are you doing here?
00:56:33If you knew how I worried.
00:56:36I'm under the doctor's care.
00:56:40You need never worry again.
00:56:46Now, now.
00:56:49I know how you feel.
00:56:54No, stay where you are.
00:57:00Why is she here?
00:57:03Mother, my God.
00:57:06Get her out of here.
00:57:08There's no need for jealousy, Valerie.
00:57:11Not among us.
00:57:13I've been waiting for you, Gregorio.
00:57:19Mother, what's happened to you?
00:57:22Get out of here.
00:57:24Mother, why are you being so cruel?
00:57:27Leave us.
00:57:30Gregorio belongs to me.
00:57:35Valerie?
00:57:43I hate violence.
00:57:45It's so unnecessary.
00:57:49I can save you from dreadful experiences like that.
00:57:53Forever.
00:57:56That's not mine.
00:57:59I assure you, it is.
00:58:19I love you.
00:58:25Mother.
00:58:46Your pain gives me pleasure.
00:58:51Your terror becomes my happiness.
00:58:56I delight in your misery.
00:59:00Who are you?
00:59:03What is this place?
00:59:07Don't ask questions. I'll tell you what you need to know.
00:59:14Let me go.
00:59:17When you understand what's in store for you here...
00:59:20...you'll consider yourself extremely fortunate.
00:59:24We're interested in people like you who are extremely sensitive.
00:59:30People who are passionate.
00:59:34Now, you chose to be a prostitute.
00:59:37Now I make my living.
00:59:40Well, now, you won't have to lie anymore.
00:59:44We've given you the gift of compulsion to obey.
00:59:50For the first time in your life, you'll act truthfully.
00:59:56What will become of me?
01:00:00You'll exist at your outer limits.
01:00:04You're completely free to be and say and do anything you want.
01:00:13It's consistent with your desire to be entirely slave.
01:00:24The privilege of a very few to become a sensual object.
01:00:34Kiss my feet.
01:00:42You were right, Sir Stephen.
01:00:45I'm glad I was brought here.
01:00:48I feel a lot better about the direction my life has taken.
01:00:52I'm sure of myself now.
01:00:55I now know that I'm gone.
01:00:58I feel alive.
01:01:00I'm more whole than you.
01:01:04Your pleasure is my pain.
01:01:08My misery is your happiness.
01:01:20Life itself is so strong that it defies the bounds of petty logic and mere causality.
01:01:28Human life can transcend the individual and partake of the universe through an intense crystallization of form.
01:01:36And that is how reincarnation is possible.
01:01:39If the spirit is strong.
01:01:41What makes the spirit strong?
01:01:45The incorporation of other souls.
01:01:52A human sacrifice.
01:01:56I've heard about such things.
01:01:59But you don't mean to say that they go on today.
01:02:02I mean that's murder.
01:02:07Murder.
01:02:09Well, murder is a very hard term to define.
01:02:12People who are participating in a sacrifice don't look upon it as murder.
01:02:17Merely part of a process.
01:02:21At least that's my understanding of it.
01:02:27I really don't understand these things too well.
01:02:30Besides, I've got things a lot more important on my mind than reincarnation.
01:02:38What do you mean?
01:02:39Something wrong?
01:02:44You know, it's like this.
01:02:46You meet a guy.
01:02:48He seems nice.
01:02:50And then later you discover that deep, deep down inside he's a weirdo.
01:02:55Or a Frankenstein.
01:02:58You have a nice time with him.
01:03:01He buys you dinner.
01:03:04He takes you home.
01:03:06Then he expects you to treat him like your husband or your lover.
01:03:10And when you don't, he starts to grow fangs like Dracula.
01:03:17Or looking at you like, like Svengali.
01:03:25What do you want with me anyway?
01:03:29I need your soul.
01:03:37I gotta go.
01:03:39Time for work.
01:05:24Keys.
01:05:43Where's my keys?
01:05:51Where's my keys?
01:06:21My keys.
01:06:43My keys.
01:07:11My keys.
01:07:35My keys.
01:08:02My keys.
01:08:26Oh, Lord.
01:08:44No.
01:09:06What are you wearing?
01:09:08Do you like it?
01:09:14You're a very beautiful woman.
01:09:20You're a beautiful man.
01:09:23Roses are my favorite flower.
01:09:27I kind of thought they might be.
01:09:38I'm gonna have to leave.
01:09:42Shelby, you're gonna have to leave right now.
01:09:45Jeremy, could you come in here immediately?
01:09:48Please, don't ask me why.
01:09:50Just, you have to leave now.
01:09:52Jeremy!
01:09:54I'll get in touch with you tomorrow.
01:09:56Or at the club.
01:09:57Wait for my phone call.
01:09:58Jeremy, could you please escort this young lady home now, immediately?
01:10:02Thank you very much.
01:10:03Good night, Trudy.
01:10:04Good night, Trudy.
01:10:06I like that.
01:10:35Deja vu or lapses of memory followed by headaches
01:10:38are sometimes indications of possession by reincarnated spirits.
01:10:52Superconscious knowledge can overpower the spirit of the beast.
01:10:56To exercise, become conscious of the spirit's weakness.
01:11:00Notice the attraction your body has to things which your mind does not.
01:11:04It means that an alien soul is using your body.
01:11:07It means that an alien soul is using your body.
01:11:10To reverse the process, to gain control of the alien soul,
01:11:13use the weaknesses and desires of the alien soul.
01:11:42Deja vu or lapses of memory followed by headaches
01:11:52are sometimes indications of possession by reincarnated spirits.
01:12:01Superconscious knowledge can overpower the spirit of the beast.
01:12:05To exercise, become conscious of the spirit's weakness.
01:12:35To reverse the process, to gain control of the alien soul,
01:12:38use the weaknesses and desires of the alien soul.
01:13:08Deja vu or lapses of memory followed by headaches
01:13:37I've exorcised him. It worked. It worked.
01:13:56Put that away.
01:13:59You can't kill me.
01:14:01You'd only be killing yourself.
01:14:04Don't be a fool.
01:14:11What do you want with Truby, Svitvali?
01:14:17Truby is a goddess.
01:14:19An eternal energy source.
01:14:23She's a link between this life and the next.
01:14:28This is incredible.
01:14:32I'm sorry for you, Dr. Wainwright,
01:14:35but she must die in order that we live.
01:14:40Who's we?
01:14:42We are the Society of the Bleeding Rose,
01:14:46or as you innocent fools call us,
01:14:50the evil ones.
01:14:53But you don't understand that what's evil for one is good for another.
01:15:01I won't let you get away with this, Svitvali. I know too much.
01:15:07Your rational powers are nothing compared to ours, Dr. Wainwright.
01:15:16We've had the knowledge of centuries, centuries before your so-called rational thought was ever invented.
01:15:27I'm free of you now, Svitvali.
01:15:29Not for long.
01:15:46What do you mean you're responsible for Roland's death?
01:15:50You hypnotized him?
01:15:53Really, John, that sounds incredible.
01:15:57I'm sorry.
01:15:59I'm sorry.
01:16:01I'm sorry.
01:16:03I'm sorry.
01:16:05I'm sorry.
01:16:07I'm sorry.
01:16:09I'm sorry.
01:16:11I'm sorry.
01:16:13I'm sorry.
01:16:15That sounds incredible.
01:16:17You?
01:16:18Look, Truby, I don't have much time.
01:16:20Very soon it's going to be dangerous for you to be with me.
01:16:25This is going to sound strange, but...
01:16:30I'm going to try to kill you.
01:16:35John, you must be freaking out.
01:16:39Have you been dropping something?
01:16:44I'm trying to detach myself from nature.
01:16:47But this is a very vulnerable state.
01:16:50During one of these states, I was possessed by an incarnation of Svengali, a real Svengali, a satanic incarnation.
01:17:00And they need your psychic power.
01:17:05Svengali's been sent to get you.
01:17:11You're serious, aren't you?
01:17:14As soon as Svengali takes possession of me again, he's going to control you.
01:17:18There is nothing you can do about it.
01:17:22Truby, please, just get away.
01:17:25Immediately.
01:17:28Please.
01:17:31But how?
01:17:32I can feel him trying to get me again.
01:17:34I've got to get out of here.
01:17:36Look, Truby, if you ever see me again, don't look into my eyes.
01:17:43John?
01:18:06John?
01:18:37Oh, my God.
01:18:40Oh, my God.
01:19:11No need to be nervous. We'll be along in a second.
01:19:15Why is she here?
01:19:46Oh, no.
01:19:50What are you thinking about?
01:19:52My mother.
01:19:54She's always on my mind.
01:19:56Tonight will be a revelation for you.
01:19:59I'll help you achieve a new level of thought.
01:20:02Just exactly what is this mysterious rite you're taking me to?
01:20:07A sacrificial black mass.
01:20:09Black mass?
01:20:10Yes.
01:20:11Those fools who believe in the so-called powers of Satan
01:20:14summon up his strength in what they think is their time of need.
01:20:18Is that what Radcliffe's study of the occult has led him to?
01:20:22Exactly.
01:20:24Radcliffe, Sir Stephen, and your friend who thinks he's Svengali,
01:20:27are going to have to go through the same ordeal.
01:20:31I'm afraid so.
01:20:34Radcliffe, Sir Stephen, and your friend who thinks he's Svengali
01:20:37have deluded themselves into thinking that their devil worship
01:20:40can bring them eternal life.
01:20:43They're headed in the wrong direction.
01:20:45Radcliffe is really the one who controls their weak minds.
01:20:49Each one of them has a power within himself to extend his life
01:20:53or to bring about his own destruction.
01:20:55But you said it was a sacrificial mass.
01:20:58It is.
01:21:00Tonight you will bear witness to the death by sacrifice
01:21:04of a young woman named Trilby.
01:21:07A human sacrifice?
01:21:09Yes.
01:21:11And there's nothing you or anyone else can do to stop it.
01:21:30Help!
01:21:49You got me into this. You saved me.
01:21:51Because I don't want to die.
01:21:53Not like this.
01:21:55It's too late.
01:22:00Trilby!
01:22:30Trilby!
01:23:00Trilby!
01:23:30Trilby!
01:23:52Let's get on with it.
01:23:54It's almost time.
01:23:56Wait till the stroke of midnight.
01:23:59It's too late.
01:24:01She's dead, you fools.
01:24:05There is an enemy among us.
01:24:07Within this unholy circle.
01:24:14Her neck is punctured.
01:24:16The work of a vampire.
01:24:19We are doomed.
01:24:23You betrayed us.
01:24:25We shared our magic with you and now
01:24:28we must perish.
01:24:30We shared nothing.
01:24:32She was the entrance.
01:24:34I have the knowledge, the wisdom and the experience
01:24:36of centuries at my command.
01:24:46You destroyed her.
01:24:50Her sacrifice meant our eternal life.
01:24:54She was never yours, magician.
01:24:56She was mine for the taking.
01:24:58As are all of you.
01:25:26You are no match for Svengali,
01:25:29the bloodless creature.
01:25:32You will perish.
01:25:35And you will die.
01:25:38You will die.
01:25:41You will die.
01:25:43You will die.
01:25:45You will die.
01:25:47You will die.
01:25:49You will die.
01:25:51You will die.
01:25:53You will die.
01:25:55End him up.
01:26:09You didn't really expect your feeble rituals
01:26:12to be any match for me.
01:26:15You...
01:26:17will perish...
01:26:20with us.
01:26:25You...
01:26:28will perish...
01:26:31with us.
01:26:34The End
01:26:53They're dead.
01:26:55Each and every one of them.
01:26:58But how did it happen?
01:27:00Through the power of the mind.
01:27:03Just as Wainwright was convinced
01:27:05he was possessed by the spirit of Svengali,
01:27:07they all believed their time was running out.
01:27:10Even without Trilby, they were doomed.
01:27:13Their subconscious minds willed it.
01:27:18Your getting involved with them
01:27:19almost proved a fatal mistake.
01:27:22But it was only because of my mother.
01:27:25That's why I went to Wainwright.
01:27:27I thought he could help me.
01:27:30My mother and I were very close.
01:27:33And it's been difficult living without her.
01:27:36I know that.
01:27:38And you know that I'm the only one
01:27:39that can show you the way.
01:27:42Just as I was able to show you
01:27:43that your mother still lives.
01:27:46And so, what can you do for me?
01:27:48Reunite you with your mother.
01:27:50In a new and eternal form of life.
01:27:53To be the way she is?
01:27:55Yes.
01:27:56A lost soul with a life drained out of it.
01:28:00No.
01:28:03I'd rather give up my own life
01:28:05to see my mother at peace.
01:28:08But the only way I can do that
01:28:10is to destroy the creature
01:28:12who made her the way she is.
01:28:14You, Gregorio.
01:28:26THE END
01:28:56THE END
01:29:26THE END