The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972) Movie Script

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(jaunty music and clapping)
(eerie orchestral music)
(ominous orchestral music)
(yelling)
(screaming)
Malcolm.
That no-good bastard!
It serves him right!
He was told not to wander off!
You get back there, get back!
(ominous orchestral music)
What are you yelling at me for,
it's not my fault he got out.
Monica, you go wake up Pa and tell him
I'll be with him in a minute.
He's already been awake
for about an hour now.
Don't just stand
there, right this minute,
go and tell him I'll
be with him as soon as
I put something on Malcolm's burns.
Stop that!
See that?
That girl's completely out of control,
you'd better do something with her.
Why didn't you, I don't
need to do everything myself.
(yelling in pain)
Put something on Malcolm's
poor burns and then
I'll come in later and give him a shot of
some of Papa's morphine.
I've got to see Papa.
Oh and put his leg irons on so
that he won't get out again.
I bet Monica let him out of his chains,
What makes you say that?
Well she was in here
not half an hour ago.
We'll just have to keep
her away from Malcolm.
I don't know why she hates him so much.
Monica hates everything and everybody,
she's just one big hate.
And it's all Pa's fault.
It's not all Pa's fault.
It's all our fault, we've all spoiled her
since the day she was born.
Pa thinks the sun rises and sets on her.
Maybe he does, but
don't blame it all on him.
Pa?
Pa, are you here?
Over here, sweetie, I'm over here.
Now what are you doing up?
Didn't I tell you not to get
out of bed 'til after sundown?
How could I rest with all
the uproar in the house?
What happened to Malcolm.
He got out of his chains and those boys
got after him again.
How could he get out of his chains?
Mortimer thinks Monica let him out.
Now why should she do a thing like that?
She's always picking on him.
Every time something happens to Malcolm,
Monica gets the blame, now why is that?
Well she usually is to blame.
I'm sick and tired of hearing Monica
blamed for everything.
Well I'm sick and tired
of hearing you defending
everything she does.
She's always been your
favorite, ever since Mama died.
Monica's my baby, she's
always been my baby.
If you don't like it then
get out of the house.
(coughing)
Pa!
Monica!
Monica!
Well don't just stand there,
come and help me with Pa!
All you do is fight with him again.
He wouldn't have these
attacks if you wouldn't
fight with him all the time.
If it weren't for you,
there wouldn't be fighting
half the time.
Yeah that's right, blame it on me,
you always have to blame it on me.
You let Malcolm out of his cage.
Who said I did?
It was Mortimer, wasn't it?
Tell the truth, it was you, wasn't it?
Let go of me!
It was you, wasn't it?
I don't have to tell you anything!
You'll be back below, you hear me?
You go to hell!
Don't you dare speak
to me like that again.
I'll tell Papa on you.
And you just wait and see if I don't!
(sinister music)
You alright, Papa?
Going to be alright, just keep quiet.
Here, Malcolm, drink this.
How bad is it?
He'll be alright in a few days.
Did you talk to Papa?
Yes.
Well what did he say?
Well what do you think he said?
He said the same old
things he always says.
Did you get the morphine for Malcolm?
No, I forgot.
But I will after lunch.
Papa had another of his attacks.
Well how did that happen?
Well I started shouting
at him about Monica
and then he got angry with me and
then he had one of his attacks.
Well what did you have
to make him angry for?
Can't you talk to him
without making him angry?
Now I know it's all my fault...
I mean you know the
condition his heart is in.
I mean what the hell did you
have to make him angry for?
Well now don't you start.
Had a bad enough day
without you picking on me.
Try to do the best I can for
this family and all but...
Now don't, Phoebe, don't
don't, it's alright, stop it.
I'm sorry.
I'll brighten up.
I must have been building
up to that cry for days.
It's alright.
Lunch will be ready in a few minutes.
Oh, where do you think
we ought to put Diana
when she arrives?
We'll put her in the old master bedroom,
that should be alright.
I hope she's not too upset at Monica
taking her old room.
Well if she is, it's just too bad.
We can't be quibbling
about things like that
when we've got more important
things to worry about.
I wonder what he's like.
Who?
Her husband.
Well I'd forgotten all about him.
I wonder if Papa will
ever come 'round about him.
I'll make a bet with you on that.
What's that?
You wash the dishes
three weeks if I'm right.
I don't know, depends what it is.
I bet they'll take no
more than two days here
and then find somewhere else to live.
It's a deal.
Did Papa finish all his food?
No, he didn't eat very much.
You know why, don't you?
You mean Diana.
Well if she were coming home alone,
it would be alright.
She had no right to go
and get married like that
without telling us beforehand.
Well it's done and there's
nothing we can do about it.
She promised Papa she'd come
back and take care of him.
The only reason he let her
go to that medical school
in Scotland so she'd come back
and take care of him properly.
She's a liar and a cheat.
I hate her.
Now I don't want any more out of you.
Another word and you'll go to your room.
What time are they coming?
Well the letter said today or tomorrow
by the afternoon train but, I
know it's going to be today.
You know how I'm always
right when I get a feeling
about something like that.
Well you weren't right
about Pa letting her
go off and get married like that.
I said I didn't want any more from you.
Now I'm warning you, Monica.
He's a painter, you
know, he paints pictures.
Is he any good at them?
According to Diana he is.
Hasn't sold anything.
You didn't have to tell her she could
bring him here to live.
She'll be here about an hour,
she'll want her old room back.
Go to your room.
Now what should I do?
I said go to your room.
You're always picking on me.
I mean it's alright for
you to say something,
but as soon as I...
Monica, they won't be
gone if you don't stop.
Well alright.
It's not going to be
very pleasant around here
for a while, you know that, don't you?
Has it ever been so
long as you can remember?
Come to think of it, no.
(howling and crashing)
Damn it, she let him out again.
If she doesn't stop torturing him,
we'll have to start locking
her in her room like Malcolm.
Oh I've missed you all terribly.
Where's Papa, is everything alright?
Well aren't you going to introduce us?
Oh, dreadfully sorry, I forgot.
Mortimer, Phoebe, this
is my husband, Gerald.
Where's Monica?
She's somewhere around.
She's still mad at me then?
Have you ever known her when
she wasn't mad at something?
I thought maybe these few
years of not seeing each other
she would have grown up.
Oh as long as Papa keeps
letting her have her own way
she's never going to grow up.
Has Papa really been alright?
More or less.
But he needs more of his
shots now than he used to.
Well, how was medical school?
Did you like everything in Scotland?
Wait a minute, one
question at a time, please.
School was hell.
You know, it's not easy for a
woman in an all-male school.
You have to be exactly right
about what you're going to say
before you say it.
Did I like living in
Scotland, well yes and no.
I hated it at first, until I met Gerald.
And then he made everything
alright after that.
Everything was just fine then.
Isn't he handsome?
How did you ever put
up with her as a child?
She must have been impossible.
We're all impossible, that's
part of the Mooney charm.
Has Papa said any
more about my marriage?
Oh here we are standing around talking
when you two should be unpacking.
You must be exhausted.
We'll show you to your room.
I'll go and see Papa
first, and break the ice.
Good to have you back.
(knocking)
Come in, Phoebe.
How did you know it was me, Papa?
When you've been with this
family as long as I have,
I know every move before you do.
They're here, aren't they?
Yes, Papa.
And he's very handsome.
I don't give a damn about
him, how does she look?
Happy.
You want me to accept him, don't you?
Well I'm not going to.
Diana isn't the same as the rest of us.
I think maybe it would
work, if we only gave it
half a chance.
I tell you, it will not
work, believe me, Phoebe,
it will not work.
You're not going to
give it a chance, though,
are you, Papa?
You're just so stubborn,
you won't even give it
half a chance.
That has nothing to do with it.
We can not afford to take a chance.
Well I think you ought to see them.
I'll go send them in here.
I don't want them in here.
As long as he's in this
house, I won't speak to him
and that's final.
You'll see Diana, though, won't you?
Does Diana want to see me?
What do you think, Papa?
I'll see my daughter any time.
You're wrong, Papa.
I'll go send Diana in.
Happy?
I don't know yet.
Everything will work out, you'll see.
We should have stayed in Scotland.
Every time I think about it, I wonder how
you ever could have talked me into
come to live with your family.
We couldn't afford to stay
in Scotland, you know that.
I'd have got a job.
And give up your career as
an artist, I won't hear of it.
At least with a job,
I'd be a better husband.
You're a fine artist
and a great husband.
I love you very much.
Can you imagine what it would
be like in years to come
if you'd given up your one
love of life, your painting?
And how I'd always feel guilty about it?
No Papa has lots of money,
he can well afford to
put us up for a while.
I gave half my life to looking after him.
While Phoebe looked after the rest of us,
I ended up looking after Papa.
I don't think it's asking
too much of a favor, do you?
(clapping)
That was a beautiful speech, Diana.
It's too bad there wasn't any one truth
and society to it.
Hello, I'm Monica, the
middle sister, the bitch.
The one they always talk
about behind her back.
I see you're still sneaking about,
listening at keyholes.
The door was wide open.
And with a voice as loud as
yours, it's not difficult
to be heard, unless
you're deaf, of course.
And the only dummy running
around here is Malcolm.
Oh you mean you haven't met
our youngest brother, Malcolm?
Hasn't Diana told you everything
about our fantastic family?
You haven't changed one
little bit, have you, Monica?
None of the family has, including you.
I see you're still pretending
to be the great one.
Now listen, don't listen
to everything she tells you
or you're going to be very sorry.
I don't think we're
too interested in your
paranoid rantings.
Well she's a bit smarter
now that she's graduated
from medical school.
I think you'd better go.
You see she made a deal with Papa
that when she finished medical school,
she'd help him with his experiments.
But she didn't keep her promise
to that old man in there.
She only thought of herself,
her future, her happiness.
She didn't think of the
future of our family,
like she was supposed to.
She always thinks of herself.
I've had enough out of you!
Take your hands off me!
You haven't heard about the
Mooneys yet have you, Gerald?
Well I'm warning you,
you'd better find out now!
You'd better find out now, Gerald!
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm
terribly sorry about that.
Well I finally met your sister Monica.
She has a few problems, doesn't she?
Now I know why I love you so much.
That fabulous sense of humor.
You can't survive life without it,
I discovered that years ago.
I told you I had a very strange family.
I knew you were a
master of understatement,
your talent goes beyond that.
Who's Malcolm?
I should have told you about him before.
Yes I think you should have.
It's not easy to talk about him.
I don't want you ever
to feel there's something
you can't tell me.
It's telling each other everything
that makes our love strong.
So that no one person
or thing can destroy it.
I love you so much.
Tell me about Malcolm.
There really isn't very much to tell.
He's a year older than me,
and he's not quite normal.
He's almost animal like.
We don't know how it happened.
The genes got mixed up at conception
and he never developed into a normal baby.
When he was a youngster,
we used to have to
keep him locked up in a room.
He has the instincts of an animal.
Oh he's not dangerous
or anything like that,
but to this day, we keep
him locked in a room.
Are there any more
secrets you should tell me?
No.
Let me tell you some
things about the family.
Phoebe's the eldest.
She's 39 and she's been
almost like a mother to us.
Mortimer's the next in line, he's 29,
then Monica, who's 25, and Malcolm's 23.
Finally, there's me.
As you know, I've just become 21.
That's why I couldn't marry you
last year when you asked me.
Papa wouldn't have allowed
it, and I had to wait
to come of age in order
to give my consent.
Well why does Monica hate you so?
My Mama died in childbirth having me.
She and Papa had only
been married for a year.
Monica's always been
jealous of Papa's love
for me and my Mama.
You see, all of this estate
and a large sum of money
is to be legally divided when Papa dies.
Monica's the only one of the family
who doesn't think I should
have as much as the rest
because I have a different Mama to her.
You see, a very strange thing happened
when Monica was born.
When her mama was in bed
right after having Monica,
she was poisoned.
To this day, no one knows who did it.
Well you have a strange
family there, haven't you?
I should have told you more about them
before we were married.
But I was afraid of losing
you, and I couldn't stand that.
You never asked me before we were married,
and I thought it would be
alright to tel you afterwards.
Are you angry with me for
not telling you sooner?
Well now that we're having
a truth day with each other,
perhaps I should tell you a
few things about my background.
My father deserted my
mother when I was five.
Two years later, he was arrested
for raping and murdering
a six-year-old girl.
He was hanged at Portsmouth.
And left hanging on display
for all to see as lesson.
He hung there for two weeks,
until his body became so hideous,
they had to cut it down
for health reasons.
He was buried in an unmarked grave
in the yard of an insane asylum.
And two weeks later, my mother
died of grief and shame.
I was shipped off to an
orphanage in Scotland.
The nuns there had it in for
me because of my background.
They punished me often for
the whole orphanage to see.
They would strip me, tie
me between two posts,
and beat me.
I never made any friends there.
Probably thought I was
just like my father.
When I finally became 18,
they set me free in society.
Years later, I was lucky
enough to meet you.
That's why those first two
years we were living together,
I couldn't show you any love.
My God, I love you so much.
I don't want you ever to
think about that again.
Oh.
I'm very sorry to have
come in on you like that,
I assure you it won't happen again.
You see I have a bad habit of checking on
Malcolm and Monica that way and I'm
afraid I just forget about
other people's privacy.
Darling, you shouldn't
have to apologize to us.
Papa wants to see you, he's in his room.
Good.
You see, I told you
everything would be alright.
Diana,
I'm afraid he only wants to see you.
He hasn't changed, then?
Oh I'm sorry, Gerald.
But he'll come 'round in time, you'll see.
(knocking)
Come in, Diana.
Hello, Papa.
You haven't kept your promise to me.
I fell in love, Papa,
there was nothing I could do.
You mean that he means
more to you than I do?
I love you both the same,
but in different ways.
You have absolutely no right to marry,
you know that as well as I do.
I am a woman.
I have a woman's desires, I
have as much right to marry
as any other woman.
You are not, you are
not an ordinary woman.
You are playing with fire.
Haven't you understood
anything I've ever told you
all these years?
But you know there's a slight chance...
It is too slight a
chance to take, look at me.
Because of my age and my health,
I decided to send you to
medical school in Scotland
so that you would be able to help me
carry on with my experiments.
You know how important
those experiments are
to the family's existence.
If I die tomorrow, there'll be no one
to carry on those experiments except you.
That was the reason for letting you go.
Our family's like no other
family, don't you know.
It's not the same with
me as with the others.
My Mama was healthy.
But I wasn't.
We don't know that it might work out,
the marriage of yours.
I could have only let you marry him
after we'd done exhaustive tests.
I'm willing to take the chance.
Regardless of the outcome?
Yes.
I can't allow it.
It would be too dangerous.
There's nothing you can do about it.
I am of age, and I can
make my own decisions now.
There is just one thing, you
could always get a divorce.
No, Papa, I will not give up Gerald.
I need him and he needs me.
You know our family life
hasn't always been easy.
But I'm going to make up for all that
with my love of Gerald.
You're talking to your Papa, Diana.
Remember, I know you better
than you know yourself.
Ever since you were a little girl,
you thought only of yourself.
You really were...
That's not true, don't say that!
Will you let me finish?
You've always been very selfish.
Come to think of it, the
Mooneys are a selfish lot.
But we need that selfishness
in order to exist.
When we think of the family continuing,
we must think not of ourselves,
but of the family as a whole.
We're the last of the Mooneys,
and we must protect our heritage.
Society doesn't accept
us because of what we are
and so we're an enemy of society
and we must protect ourselves
by being self-sufficient.
That's where you come in.
If I die tomorrow, there will be only you
to continue my experiments.
Without those experiments, the
family would become extinct.
Papa, I'm not going to leave you.
Gerald will stay here with
us, and things will be
the same as they've always been.
It cannot be as it was.
Why?
Because we do not know if
we can start a new bloodline.
We must do extensive tests.
Then perhaps you can get married.
But Papa, I already am...
You're the only one in the
family who can get married
because of your mother.
You are very beautiful
Diana, just like her.
Oh no, that's not going to work anymore.
What do you mean?
You know damn well what I mean.
All my life you've used my
mother mixed with cheap sentiment
to get your own way.
Well it won't work anymore.
That is not true.
While I've been away, I've
put two and two together
and I've come up with the
answers to just about everything
to do with this family.
But the most important
thing is the way you've
maneuvered me about Mama.
Well it's not going to work anymore.
Gerald and I are married, and
I intend to keep it that way.
I want to have children, he's
going to give them to me.
Don't say such things.
You don't know what you're doing.
It would be disastrous.
There is nothing you can do about it.
I'll throw you and your
precious husband out of the house.
Then where would you be with no income
and no roof over your head?
Don't be so melodramatic,
Papa, you know damn bloody well
you need me, because
without me this family
doesn't have a hope in hell of surviving.
So don't let's make empty
threats we don't mean.
Get out of here, get out of here.
That's another of your
tricks, pretending to get angry
and lose your temper to get your own way.
Well that's not going to work either.
Oh Papa,
please, listen to me.
Just learn to live with
the idea of my marriage
and everything will work out, you'll see.
It will not work out,
this family is cursed.
Don't be a stubborn little fool,
you don't know what you're doing.
This family is doomed if you... (coughing)
Phoebe!
Phoebe, come quickly!
Papa's had one of his
attacks, help me with him!
This is the second time today.
He had one with me earlier this morning
before you arrived.
Where is it?
It's here on the side
table, I'll give it to you.
As much as this?
How long has that been?
Well over the past year I've had to
increase it gradually all along.
Papa said as soon as you came home,
he and you would find a way
of concentrating the formula.
You still grow it in the back garden?
Yes, but two years ago
we lost the supply of it
because of the weather, and of course
that's dwindled our supplies of it.
How frequent have his attacks been?
Two a week.
As many as that?
I'm afraid Papa isn't going to be with us
for very much longer.
That's not true.
After all these years,
Papa can't be that sick.
We must find a way of helping him,
isn't there something we can do?
No, nothing.
Papa is extremely old,
his heart can hardly
carry an ordinary day anymore.
A man's heart isn't meant to
last for as long as Papa's.
Tomorrow night is the full moon.
We shall have to put him
to sleep before it rises
or his heart won't be able to take it.
You must find some way of
prolonging his heart, you must.
You don't know what Papa means to me.
He means a lot to all of us.
No.
He means much more to me.
What do you mean by that?
I'll tell you Diana, someday.
I'll tell you, someday,
when the time is right.
I don't see why she
can't help with the dinner.
Don't expect her to help
her first day back home.
She'll help tomorrow.
Well I don't have to hold
my breath waiting to see that.
You can't think anything good, can you?
Well it's true, isn't it?
I mean have you ever
known Diana to help much
in the kitchen before?
Look, years ago we made house rules.
Diana was to look after Papa's comfort
and you and I were to
look after the meals.
Well I think we got
the shit end of the deal.
I really can't understand
why you dislike Diana so much.
It goes way back, my hatred for Diana,
it goes back to when we were all children.
I think you imagine a lot.
See there you go again,
you're always taking
her side against mine.
That's just not true.
You've got no basis for
your dislike of Diana
except jealousy.
Well that's true, too, but
that's not the main reason
I hate her.
She used to do things
when we were children
and she used to arrange
them to make it look
as though I was to blame for them.
I don't believe you, Monica.
I think you have a vivid imagination
and that you imagine a lot
of things that aren't true.
Are you calling me a liar?
Yes, I am.
Well, you were always so
busy that you couldn't see
the truth about Diana.
I'm not gonna stand here
and let you call me a liar,
I'm going to my room.
You're not going to get out
of helping me with the dinner
that way, by starting a fight.
Now you can take Malcolm his
food, and then you can go.
Now I will not have
you help my with dinner
than have you out here with
me complaining all the time.
Do I have to feed Malcolm,
why can't Mortimer do it?
It's your job.
And you'd better feed him now,
because it's well past his feeding time,
you know he only starts howling
if we start eating before he gets his.
Now then, don't start picking on him,
just give him his food and leave him be.
Alright!
(yelling)
Come on.
Come on, get your dinner.
Got some food for you, come on.
Come on.
(yelling)
(yelling)
No you don't.
(screaming)
Shut up!
Doesn't Papa eat with
the family anymore?
Papa used to eat with us all the time,
but just lately it's been
easier if he stays in his room.
Oh.
I thought maybe just tonight he would have
joined up for dinner.
Why should he?
Her doesn't like your
husband, so why should he?
[Phoebe] Now just shut
up, Monica, and eat.
Well it's true, isn't it?
How long have you been a painter.
About three years now.
Did youring any of
your paintings with you?
[Diana] We had too much
luggage, there wasn't room
to bring any of them.
They're coming by boat,
the end of this month.
[Diana] He's quite good at landscapes,
his portrait work's good too.
I should like to paint
a portrait of Monica,
she has lovely features.
Why that would be lovely.
Did you hear that, Monica?
It would be nice to
have a portrait of her.
You must all think I'm very stupid
if you think a little
flattery will win me over.
Well you're very...
Now that's not so, Monica,
I'm sure Gerald meant it
in all sincerity.
I'm sure he did, too.
And I'm also sure that
she put him up to it.
That is not true.
I wouldn't even suggest
such a thing to Gerald.
My dear sister,
I wouldn't put anything
past you, including murder.
(gasping)
Get out of here!
You go to hell, you hear me, all of you!
Just go to hell!
Tired?
A little.
Would you like a drink
before we go to bed?
Port would be nice.
To my darling.
May we always be together as one.
What's the matter?
Would you mind terribly
if I said something?
That depends on what it is.
I'm not happy here.
I think we should go away.
I think we should start
our own life on our own.
Because of Monica?
It's everything.
Such as?
I have a terrible feeling
we won't be at all happy here.
That's just because
everything hasn't been
mapped out yet.
Just give it time, and
everything will be alright.
I'll make it work.
It takes more than you
to make something work out,
it takes everyone involved.
Papa will come around
in time, he has to.
That's just the point,
he shouldn't have to.
They should be rid of us
and everyone's concerned,
can't you see that?
It's all Monica's fault.
It's not Monica's fault, it's my fault.
How can you say such a thing?
It's my fault for
letting you persuade me
to come and live with your family.
We should have stayed in
Scotland, I could have got a job.
I thought we'd already settled that.
In your mind, maybe.
You're that unhappy, then?
There's something wrong
here, I don't like it.
It's your imagination.
(howling)
What's that?
It's only Malcolm.
Why is he howling like that?
I told you why, because he's not normal.
He's always howled like that
when the moon is becoming full,
ever since I can remember.
It will be worse tomorrow.
Why?
Because tomorrow night is a full moon.
I think we'd better get ready for bed.
(howling)
There he goes again.
He sounds as though he were king.
We should have had him committed
to an institution long ago.
Well why didn't you?
Because Papa didn't want anyone to...
What do you mean by that?
I mean he didn't want anyone to know
about Malcolm's condition.
That's not what you
meant, now tell the truth.
I don't have to tell you anything.
Oh Gerald, I'm sorry, I didn't mean...
This is exactly what I meant when I said
we couldn't be happy here.
But we're bound to argue,
all married people argue.
This goes deeper than that.
This place isn't conducive to happiness.
Now that is complete and utter nonsense.
Is it?
Something tells me my feelings are right.
Look,
we've both had a long day
and we're both very tired.
Let's just go to bed.
Which side of the bed
would you like to sleep on?
It doesn't matter.
Well then I'll take the outside,
just in case something happens to Papa.
Oh, I forgot the lamp.
(howling)
I must talk to Papa about Malcolm.
[Gerald] Diana.
[Diana] Yes?
[Gerald] I love you.
Very, very much.
(breathing heavily)
(sinister music)
(chicken squawking)
Diana, wake up.
What is it, what's the matter?
I don't know, come see for yourself.
(eerie music)
I should think it would be
much easier on the whole family
if he'd be committed to an institution.
Papa and I decided
not to a long time ago.
Malcolm's alright if he's
left with his animals.
If I asked for your help in
something, would you help me?
That would depend upon what it is.
I want Diana to go
back to Scotland with me.
That would be impossible.
Well why would it be?
Diana belongs here, taking care of Papa.
Well why don't you
and Mortimer or Monica
take care of him?
Because we haven't got the
training to take care of him,
Diana haa.
Training, what training?
Papa exists only because
of the formula he discovered
when he was a doctor.
Diana was sent to Scotland
to study for four years
so that she could continue
with Papa's experiments.
But what about our life
together, Diana and me?
Don't we have as much
right to a life together?
[Phoebe] When you married
Diana, you, without knowing it,
gave up your freedom.
I don't agree with your
family's way of thinking.
[Phoebe] I think the
best thing for you to do
would be to divorce...
That would make you all
very happy, wouldn't it?
[Phoebe] No, but it would
solve a lot of problems.
Diana and I are leaving
here, we don't belong here.
You don't.
I'm telling her tonight.
We'll leave within the next few days.
If she won't come with me,
then I'll go by myself.
If Diana loves me as
much as I think she does,
she'll come with me.
Diana will never leave
the needs of her family.
She is destined to devote
her life to caring for them
and she will never desert them.
I don't believe you.
It's true.
Oh Gerald, if you were wise,
you would think of leaving her.
Do you all hate me so much?
Nothing to do with you.
Could have been anyone.
Just that Diana had simply
no right even to think
of getting married.
What do you mean she had no right,
she has as much right as anyone.
Gerald, for heaven's sake,
go, before it's too late.
What are you trying to tell me?
I've already said too much.
I'm just sick and
tired of this damn talk.
Diana and I are staying married.
We're leaving here as soon as possible
and neither you nor
anyone else will stop us.
(humming)
You look happy.
I am very happy.
You know, I don't remember
being this happy since,
well, since we were children.
I like to see you happy.
You're a good brother to me.
I love you the most next to Papa.
You love Gerald, don't you?
Very much.
You know, I believe the way you do.
You mean about giving
the marriage a try?
Yes.
It's almost as if you
were reading my mind.
I think it can work, I'm sure it can.
Well I mean you are
different from the rest of us.
That's what I keep telling Papa,
but he won't listen to me.
Oh Papa's always got old
ideas and superstitions.
There's a chance he's right.
But the position of our
family tree is precarious
we must be daring enough to take a chance.
Will you tell him that?
Do you think it would do any good?
You know he only hears
what he wants to hear.
That statement is true of everyone.
But if you could make him listen to you,
just for my sake.
I'll do anything to make
my favorite sister happy.
What's the matter, your hand's trembling.
I'm frightened of what could happen.
That's the first time
I've seen you frightened.
Suppose things don't
work out as we hoped.
The Mooneys will still survive.
And Gerald?
Well what can I say,
what do you want me to say?
I want to tell you something.
Something I haven't told
anyone yet, not even Gerald.
I think I know what it is.
What?
Well I want you to tell me.
Hold my hand tight.
I'm going to have a baby.
I knew it, I knew it, that's marvelous!
I knew you'd be pleased about it.
But I'm not so sure about
the rest of the family.
Oh there's nothing
they can do about it now.
It's a terrific chance I'm taking.
Well it will be worth it if it turns out
even half as good as I think it will.
I don't want anyone to know
about it, not even Gerald.
But you must tell Papa.
No.
But it might change
the whole relationship
between you and him and Gerald.
I have it all planned out in my mind.
I'll tell Papa when it's
the right time to tell him.
Everything's going to
be alright, I know it it.
I'm not so sure about that.
Why?
Gerald wants us to go away from here.
He wants me to leave this place with him.
Well that's impossible,
you need the protection
of the family.
Safety in numbers, yes.
But this family has deteriorated
more than you realize.
You don't notice the changes.
But I've been away for four
years and I notice them.
I don't think this
family stands much chance
of surviving as a whole
for very much longer.
I think we're on the verge
of destroying ourselves.
No, I don't believe that.
You don't want to believe it.
My unborn baby is the only answer.
In your brain, the Mooneys is the most
important thing of all.
But you must tell Papa.
I will, my darling, I will.
But at the right time.
Yoohoo!
Yoohoo.
Hello!
Mr. McCarver.
Mr. McCarver!
Ah, Miss Mooney, delighted to see you.
And what brings you into the city?
And on such a fine day?
It is a fine day, isn't it?
The sun is shining and
I find it terribly hot.
And it's so stuffy in here.
Couldn't you open some windows
and let in some fresh air?
Oh couldn't, never do that.
Had the windows sealed up a long time ago.
I can't stand the sunlight.
Beastly stuff, sunlight.
Oh no, that would never do.
How's your sister?
Oh she's alright, I guess.
You mean you don't know?
Well of course I know.
There are very few
things that I don't know.
Well then how is she?
Do you really care?
Well no, not really I guess.
Well then why ask?
Well it's the thing to
do, one doesn't go about
without asking how's your sister.
Manners always were a complete
waste of everyone's time.
If more people got to the point,
they wouldn't go about
cluttering up their day
with a lot of nonsense.
Now don't you agree?
I couldn't agree more.
What did you come for, my dear?
A gift, perhaps a wee gift?
Remember that little
mouse I got from you?
Oh yes, sweet little thing, how is he?
Oh it wasn't a he, it was a she.
You don't even remember.
Oh well when one brings as many little
creatures of the night
into the world as I,
one forgets a little sex now and then.
Mr. McCarver, please.
Oh, that didn't sound
at all right or proper
now did it?
I wish you wouldn't mention
those words in my presence.
An ugly slip of the tongue
I assure you, my dear.
How is she?
My sister?
She's fine.
No dear girl, the
little girl, the mouse.
Did she live up to our
greatest expectations?
Oh I love that book.
Dickens is a great
writer, don't you agree?
It died, you know.
Of course it died, died long time ago.
I read all of his books, you know.
Oh Mr. McCarver, I do wish you would
stay on one subject at a time.
It's very hot in here.
My head is swimming from the heat.
It's not very often I get
to sneak out of the house
and come into town like
this to visit with you.
Now please, let's get down to business.
Business, ah yes, delightful word.
Now what is it you wish this time?
Some more chickens or
rabbits for your brother?
Is your sister happy
with the ones that she
purchased from me?
Perhaps you would like some more.
No, they're not for
Malcolm, I've come for me.
I want some pets of my own.
You see, it gets very boring
up there in that old house
without anyone to play with.
I need some pets.
Just what did you have in mind?
Rats.
I'd like some rats.
Ah, then you have
come to the right place.
Would you like a little nip, my dear?
I suppose I could put on
the kettle for some tea,
but it's much better without anything.
Much better.
I can go the whole day now.
Are you sure you wouldn't
like a little nip my dear?
It's mothers milk, you know.
We, the Mooneys, don't drink alcohol.
It doesn't agree with us.
What do you drink?
If I didn't know.
What do you mean by that?
Nothing dear girl but,
I know a lot more than you think I know.
I'll just pretend I
didn't hear that remark.
Now do you want to do
business or don't you?
Where else would you go?
Well there are other
places I could deal with.
Ah but could they assure
you of the discretion
that I show you with my business?
Not in a million years.
And the Mooneys wouldn't
survive long without discretion
now would they?
For the second time, Mr. McCarver,
I don't forget that easily.
Shall I show you the little ones?
Yes please do, I don't
want Phoebe to know
I've been gone this long
or there'll be hell to pay.
Remarkable creatures, rats.
They can be very friendly
if they want to be.
On the other hand, they
can be very destructive
if they get mad.
I lost my arm to them, you know.
No, I didn't.
Oh yes, and part of my face, see?
How fascinating.
Well how did it happen?
One night, I had a little
too much mothers milk.
I fell asleep at the table here.
What I didn't know was that I hadn't
shut the cage completely.
Oh I've been here doing
experiments with grown rats.
I've discovered that
they will eat anything
that you bring them up on.
I started feeding them flesh from birth.
They know nothing else to eat.
What kind of flesh?
Oh, cats, dogs.
Anything that I can find on the street
late at night when no one is about.
And once...
I shouldn't tell you this, but
one night, I found an old lady
that had died in a doorway.
Well I couldn't just leave her there.
So I dragged her home and
gave a piece to the children.
They absolutely loved her.
They went wild with ecstasy.
But that, I'm afraid, was my undoing.
Because when I fell asleep that night,
they chewed off all of my left arm
and part of my face before I awoke.
You'd think I'd stop
drinking, wouldn't you?
For shame.
Naughty naughty.
I must have them.
How many would you like?
I'll take all of them.
All of them?
Yes, I'll take them home with me.
I'm going to miss them.
I raised them from birth.
How much are they?
Six shillings apiece.
Six shillings?
Well that's highway
robbery, I could go out and
find my own rats.
Oh not like these little darlings.
These are special, they're talented.
Well couldn't you do
better on the price?
Well, being that your family
does use up a lot of animals,
I could let you have them
for five shillings apiece.
Well that's a little better.
It's still high, but
I'll take them anyway.
By all means, please do
not tell my sister Phoebe
about this, she would
be absolutely furious.
I'll wrap them for you.
(humming)
(screaming)
(screaming)
What are you doing in here?
I told you to stay out of my room.
She was in the closet.
(???)
Found her in the closet, she was trying to
stab me with this.
Get out of here.
Why Don't you go and look in the closet?
And that, my dear sister,
is only the beginning.
You'll be sorry for this,
you'll wish you'd never done that!
Why, what are you
going to do, tell Papa?
How much good do you think that would do,
you know I'm Papa's favorite,
he'll never listen to you.
There are ways of punishing
you, I'll find a way.
You always were all mouth.
I wouldn't like to be
in your shoes tomorrow.
Why, what's tomorrow?
I feel very sorry for you, Monica.
I think you'd better go.
Why don't you and
your husband leave here,
we don't want you here.
(laughing)
Monica's a very sick girl.
I think the family ought
to do something about her.
She certainly did a
good job on my clothes.
Oh well, I just suppose I'll
have to dig up some old ones
I keep stored in the attic.
I think I'm losing my mind.
Why would you say that?
When I grabbed her arm to
stop her using this on me,
I turned around and threw her on the bed.
As she fell, she landed on this.
What's that?
[George] It's a cross my mother left me.
It's the only thing she had.
The nuns kept it and gave
it to me before I left them.
Why don't you put it away?
[George] Something strange happened
when Monica fell on it.
Oh you were just excited.
[George] You know I
didn't say it to you,
why do you say that?
Say what?
It's almost as if you knew
what I was gonna tell you.
Nonsense, what were you going to say?
When Monica fell
backwards onto the cross,
she screamed in pain as if in agony.
And at the same time, a puff of smoke
came off of her back, as if
the cross were burning her.
And then you came in.
Oh it's your imagination.
No it isn't.
Well it would have to be.
Such a thing as you're
suggesting would be impossible.
Would it?
I'm not so sure now.
I want to leave this place.
Look, you know the
house is extremely old.
I'll tell you what probably happened.
When Monica fell onto the coverlet,
a could of dust rose from it, that's all.
Phoebe and I will shake it out tomorrow.
You're probably right.
I know I'm right.
Oh, you're still tired after the trip.
Why don't you take a nap before lunch?
I have to go into town to attend
to some business for Papa.
I'm not really tired.
Are you sure you don't
want me to go with you?
No really, you have a rest.
I'll ask Phoebe if we
can have a late lunch,
I'll only be gone a couple of hours.
Oh and darling, put
your Mama's cross away,
why don't you?
We're home now.
That wasn't so bad, was it?
You mustn't let Phoebe see you.
If she sees you, she'll
make me take you back and
well we wouldn't want that, would we?
What am I going to call you?
Oh dear, how am I going
to remember your names
all at once?
I know,
I'll name you Monica Two.
And you, I think I'll call you Phoebe.
You know you look just like her?
You've got the same
tiny little beady eyes.
And you, you on the floor,
I think I'll call you Roe.
You know, Roe.
No, I think I'll call you Ruard,
you look just like a Ruard.
I'll call you Sally.
You're such a pretty little girl.
Well you are a girl, aren't you?
It's very hard to tell nowadays.
Just so real.
Yes.
What a sweetheart.
I think I'll call you Ben.
Benjamin.
Do you like that name?
That's a good name for you.
What?
You're hungry?
Well I'll have to take
care of that, won't I?
Yes I will (gasp) ouch!
You bloody rat, you bit me!
(sinister music)
Mr. McCarver.
Mr. McCarver.
Wake up, Mr. McCarver, I brought the rats.
Go away.
Mr. McCarver, I brought the rats back,
I don't want them anymore.
The bloody creatures bit me.
I don't want any ungrateful rats.
No you can't bring them back.
Can't you see that I'm
sleeping, get out of here.
I've brought them back
and I want my money.
You can't bring them back,
all sales are final, go away.
You're going to give me my money.
I won't give it to you.
Besides, it's all gone.
I want my money.
I told you, it's all gone.
I drank it all up.
You had no right to
take my money like that,
now give it to me!
A bargain's a bargain.
You bought them from me and now
you want to bring them back.
And I gave them to you
at a very good discount.
Can't do it, can't do it.
Now get out of here, I
want to go back to sleep.
I want my money!
Go away like a nice little girl.
I'd better get my money.
Because if you don't, I
don't wanna be responsible
for what might happen to you.
What do you mean by that?
Just what I said.
Get out of here!
Give me my money!
No!
They haven't eaten yet, you know.
What are you talking about?
The rats.
They haven't eaten since
I bought them from you.
And I should think that they
would be very hungry by now.
They just almost ended you.
Are you going to go, or do
you want me to call the police?
Not until I get my money.
Very well.
(yelling)
Mr. McCarver!
(screaming)
(unintelligible yelling)
(screaming)
we have to wait to give it to him
until the very last minute.
Otherwise, it won't do much good.
Is it all prepared?
Yes, it's on the
sideboard in his bedroom.
Did you tell Papa that
tonight will be a full moon?
Do you think he doesn't
know that without being told?
Really, Mortimer, sometimes.
What about them?
There's nothing we can do about them.
Maybe we should try and get rid of them,
at least for tonight.
We can't do that without telling Gerald.
Now he's a very stubborn man.
And I'm quite sure he
would never do anything
without being given a good reason for it.
Perhaps you should tell him, then.
One might have to.
But not yet.
I think we ought to see
how tonight's change goes
and then act from the results.
Where is he now?
Oh, he's sleeping.
Diana had to go to town, he
said he was going to take a nap
until she got back.
Where did she go to?
He's uncertain.
Did she say anything
to you about anything?
Such as?
Well, when I was talking
to Gerald this morning
at breakfast, I might have
said that he ought to leave.
Not just now.
What do you mean by that?
Nothing.
Oh yes you do, there's
something you haven't told me,
what is it?
I promised Diana I wouldn't tell anyone.
Well I think it would be
a good idea if you told me.
But she hasn't even
told her husband yet.
I think I know what it is.
She's pregnant, isn't she?
Yes.
Now you know.
I don't want her to know I told you,
she'll never trust me again.
But why didn't she tell me?
She hasn't told anyone, only me.
But what about Papa?
At least she should tell Papa.
Then they can both make preparations
in case anything goes wrong.
Nothing's going to go wrong.
I feel that and so does Diana.
But feeling everything's
going to be right
doesn't make it right.
No, Papa must be told.
Then he can start to
prepare for the birth.
Are you afraid they might have a child
that turns out like Malcolm?
No.
Malcolm turning out like
that is completely different.
Well why do you say that?
There's something to do with Malcolm
that you know nothing about.
Tell me, don't you think I should know?
Papa didn't want anybody
to know, not even you.
Oh come on, you can't leave
me up in the air like that,
tell me, I have a right to know...
It's a very unpleasant thing.
To this day, I can't think how
it could ever have happened.
Tell me, please, tell me.
You know you can trust me.
If I told you now, things
would never be the same
between you and me.
I'll tell you at the right time.
Don't tell Papa about the baby.
No, I'll let Diana do that.
And I'm sure she will soon.
Is everything ready for tonight then?
Yes.
But we must be careful
not to give him his shot
until just before the moon rises.
Or it won't carry him through
until the moon goes down.
What about Diana and Gerald?
Oh, to hell with them.
We can only think about Papa tonight.
(light, happy music)
Yes?
Come back here, I'm in the back room.
Good afternoon.
May I be of some assistance?
Yes, I'm looking for a gun.
Oh dear pet, yes.
Now what sort of a firearm
were you looking for?
Doesn't really matter.
Let's see, did you want it for hunting?
Yes, it's for hunting.
Then I should think a shotgun or rifle.
Well I wasn't really
thinking in those terms,
I was thinking of something much smaller,
such as a pistol.
Yes, I think a pistol.
A pistol is a little too
small for any large game.
Just how large is the game
that you plan to kill?
Well about the size of,
I'd say about your size.
I beg your pardon?
Oh you see, this large wild
dog keeps prowling around
outside the house.
Why, only yesterday he killed
off two of our chickens.
We have no choice but to kill him.
I do think you'd have much
better luck with a heavier gun.
No, I think I could
handle a pistol much better.
Very well.
You wait here, I'll be
right back, alright?
Don't go away.
Now this here is a very fine old gun.
Notice the workmanship here.
Now here, feel the weight.
Yes, I like this one.
I'll take it, how much is it?
Well I have more guns along this line,
perhaps you'd like to see them?
No no, this one will be just fine.
How much?
It won't be any trouble
at all to show you
some more guns in the shop.
Well is there something
the matter with this one,
doesn't it work?
Of course it works, I
wouldn't show it to you
if it didn't work.
Well then I'll take it, how much is it?
I must seem like a
silly old fool to you.
I was hoping that you
would look at more than
just one gun.
Oh you see, not many people
come into the shop anymore.
And when they do come
in, well I don't like 'em
to leave too soon.
You see, when you get to my age, people,
well I should say association with people,
mean much more to me than just a sale.
You know it's much more
pleasant to spend the afternoon
with a charming young
lady such as yourself
than to worry about
health or material things
or the shop or anything but that.
Well what a very nice
thing of you to say.
It wasn't, wasn't idle flattery.
No no, I do so enjoy
the company of people.
You see, I don't have
any relatives or a wife
or anything like that anymore.
The only time I am of importance to people
is when I'm in the shop.
Sometimes when the day is done
I stand there and I
think about the next day
and then my spirits pick up again.
The only day I don't like
is Saturday, you see,
because well, then I
have to wait 'til Monday
before anyone comes in.
Oh dear, here I am talking like this,
you must think I'm a silly old man,
rambling on like this...
No.
You must have a dozen
more important things to do
than talk to a silly old man. (Chuckling)
Oh yeah, that would be
three pounds, eleven and six
for the pistol.
Well, I've enjoyed our
little chat very much
and I'll drop in again
next time I'm in town.
But I will expect something in return.
Well what's that?
A cup of tea, and I'll
bring the biscuits, alright?
That's a, oh what a lovely idea.
Oh it is a lovely day today,
isn't it a lovely day?
I wonder if I might
ask you a small favor.
Oh anything at all, anything
in the whole world, dearie.
What is it?
Well, I have something
here that I'd like you to do.
Do?
Oh, that's very lovely!
It's a little small,
perhaps, but it's very old.
Did you plan to sell it?
No, it had unpleasant
memories attached to it
and I don't want it in the house anymore.
I didn't want to throw it away,
I was wondering if you could
do something with it for me.
Anything I possibly can.
I noticed the sign over your shop says
you're also a silversmith.
Oh yes, that is correct.
Oh may I?
Oh dear, dear me.
I'll put it there.
I would like to have
this cross turned into
some silver bullets
than would fit the gun.
Can you do that for me?
Well if you'd like.
Well may I have them by this afternoon?
I'm afraid that would
be rather difficult
on such short notice.
Well I'll pay you any amount you like,
money's no object.
Couldn't we do it tomorrow afternoon?
No, that would be too
late, I'm going away tonight
to Scotland, and I have
to take them with me.
You see, they're a gift for
my father who lives there
and he's expecting them and well,
he'll be heartbroken
if he doesn't get them.
I don't see how I could possibly refuse
such a charming young lady as yourself.
Oh I should say be
ready about six o'clock.
Oh but that's too late,
couldn't you do it any sooner?
But how much sooner?
Well, within two hours?
Well I'll do my best.
Oh thank you so much.
I'll never forget this favor.
Oh oh, there's one other thing,
the bullets might not be as
polished as they should be.
Oh that doesn't matter,
so long as they fit the gun.
(yelling)
Brought you dinner.
(yelling)
(screaming)
Why can't you let him alone?
One of these days there won't
be someone around to save you.
(yelling)
Leave him alone!
I don't want you ever to
set foot in this room again.
And from now on, Mortimer
or I will feed him,
you hear me?
That's fine with me because I don't care
if I ever see him again.
(yelling)
Oh that's no punishment,
put him away somewhere
and I'll never see him.
Now get out of here.
I'm warning you, Monica, he'll kill you
one of these days if you
don't leave him alone.
He'll never get me.
I don't think you like me very well.
Said you wouldn't do that, you know.
Well just for that,
I'm not gonna give you the
present that I brought for you.
I found him in the backyard.
And I said, oh, a lovely present
for me good friend, Monica.
She's such a good friend.
She wouldn't do something like
putting a dirty old bug in her mouth.
He wasn't a dirty old
bug, he was a brand new bug.
I just found him.
I was only joking, Rebecca.
Can't you take a joke?
Well are you sorry?
No.
If you're not sorry, I'm just gonna
take him home with me again.
Well aren't you gonna stop me?
Go on, if you want to go.
But if you take my present,
don't you ever show your
face around here again.
Oh Monica,
Monica, don't be mad at me.
Please, I can't stand it
when you're mad at me.
Alright, look what I brought for you.
Oh, he's a snake!
Oh, he's beautiful.
Oh, he's absolutely beautiful.
Well what's his name?
I don't know, he doesn't have a name.
Oh come on, everything has a name.
Even you have a name.
How did you know he was a boy snake?
Well I asked him and
he told me that he was.
Well if he told you that,
why didn't he tell you his name?
I don't know.
You don't know anything, do you?
Well you do like him though, don't you?
Well, he's alright.
He's not half as big as the frog
you caught me last week, though.
He died, you know.
No, I didn't know, how did he die?
He didn't suffer, I don't think.
But of course, it's really
hard to tell with frogs.
Well what happened to George?
Well I fixed a nice little place for him
under my pillow and, he was fine there.
Mortimer came into the
room and I was reading and
I guess I forgot about him and
I turned and oh he let out a big (croak)
and he jumped to the floor and,
oh I guess Mortimer happened
to turn toward the noise and
that was the end of George.
Why didn't you invite me to his funeral?
I don't think you like me anymore, Monica.
Besides, he should have
had a big state funeral
because he was George the
First, you said so yourself.
Well we could dig him up
again and bury him all over.
Oh let's do!
What should we call him?
Uh, George the Second?
Oh no, there's far too many
Georges in the world already.
I wish he were a girl snake,
then I'd call him Diana.
Why would you call it that?
Because he looks like her,
she reminds me of a snake.
You don't like Diana very much, do you?
I hate her.
Oh you shouldn't hate
your sister, Monica,
it's not very nice.
Well she's not very nice,
so why shouldn't I hate her?
Well you don't hate me, do you, Monica?
Sometimes.
Monica, please don't say that.
I like you so very much,
you're my best friend.
I'm your only friend, Rebecca,
and don't you forget it.
I won't.
(horn honking)
Listen I,
I don't think we should
stay here any longer.
I think Phoebe might see us
and she'll make you go home.
Why don't we go to the gazebo?
And, she never goes
there, so we'll be safe.
And nobody can hear us from the house.
Well shall we go fast?
Yes but, go on your
tippytoes and be very quiet.
(giggling)
It's like hide and seek!
Only, Monica I think I'd
better take him with me
because he might not be used to you.
No, you don't!
You can't have him, he's mine, now go on!
Well alright.
Only you better be careful with him.
I don't want anything happening to him
like it did to George.
Oh really, Rebecca.
(singing)
(singing)
How funny.
Do you think she saw us?
I don't know, you
can't tell with Phoebe.
She's got eyes in the back of her head.
She does, really?
You take everything I say so serious.
Well you're not an
ordinary girl, Monica.
In fact, you're quite extraordinary.
What do you mean by that?
Well I can see lots of things
that other people don't see.
Like sometimes when I'm
supposed to be in bed,
I'll go outside and I
can see lots of things.
Well like what?
Well, like at night.
Do you know I can see all the way up
to that window over there?
You mean you can see
up into Papa's window?
And Malcolm's window, too.
Well now,
I don't know why you feed him all those
insides of the chickens.
Don't you have to cook 'em first?
I mean I don't know why
he likes them anyway,
I should think they taste awful.
What else do you see?
Well,
sometimes, when it's very bright,
I can see Phoebe giving your dad something
with a big needle like this.
I think you imagine a lot.
You have a very vivid imagination.
Oh no, I see all of those things.
Then I see lots of other things, too.
Well I think you see too much.
Well I won't tell
anyone that I saw them.
Not as long as you're my friend.
You are my friend, aren't you, Monica?
I've said so, haven't I?
Well you always will
be my friend, won't you?
Of course, Rebecca.
Oh Monica, I'm hungry.
Well why don't you go home
and get something to eat?
Well we don't have anything
to eat as nice as you do.
Monica why don't you go inside and
get me something to eat.
I see
and you know that bracelet, Monica,
that little silver one?
What about it?
Well I never had
anything as nice as that.
And you know, we're such good friends...
You'd like me to give
it to you, wouldn't you?
Yes, because of our friendship.
I mean, we are good
friends, aren't we, Monica?
We were good friends.
Were?
Oh did I say were, I meant are.
We are good friends.
You wait right here,
I'll be right back.
Did you tell anyone what you saw?
No, not yet, not as long as we...
Remain friends.
Did anyone see you come here?
No, nobody did.
Well, if you won't tell, I won't tell.
I'll be right bacl.
Don't go away now.
(singing)
Rebecca.
Rebecca.
Yes?
Rebecca!
(sinister music)
(screaming)
I've already told you no,
I never go back on my word.
Mother can be a very big word, Papa.
And I mean it.
If you think, for one
moment, I have any intention
of going back on my word, then
you're very much mistaken.
I can be just as stubborn as you.
But you have gone back on your word.
You promised that when
you left medical school
you would help me with my experiments.
But I kept my word!
What about Gerald, your husband?
What about him?
I didn't agree that you
should do anything so foolish
like getting married.
Nothing was ever said
one way or the other
about my getting married.
I didn't think it would have to be said,
you know as well as I
do none of the Mooneys
can ever get married.
Well I don't agree with
that way of thinking.
Look, Papa, Gerald and
I intend to stay married
and there's nothing you can do about it
so you might as well resign
yourself to the idea.
So long as he's under my roof,
I do not plan to accept him
now perhaps he'll get the
general idea and leave here.
You don't really care about
my happiness at all, do you?
Of course I want your happiness.
But you won't find it with him.
I already have found it.
What do you mean?
I'm going to have his child.
How long have you known this?
Four months.
Does he know?
No, I haven't told him yet.
Why not?
I was going to save it, to keep him
by my side if necessary.
You talk as if he
were going to leave you.
He wants us to go away from here,
to go and live in Scotland.
And now he won't.
Of course.
You were always clever.
Once I tell him of it,
he'll never leave me,
he's much too devoted to me.
Who else knows?
Mortimer.
Oh, so you told Mortimer
before you even told me.
I thought I was closer to you than that.
Oh it's not always easy
to talk to you, Papa.
Sometimes you make it very
difficult to confide in you.
Mortimer and I don't have
that sort of relationship
I can talk to him.
I don't mean to be difficult,
I can't help myself sometimes.
I wouldn't love you so much
if you were any other way.
(chuckling)
You aren't angry with me now, are you?
To think of a possible grandson.
That would be the answer to all my wishes.
We can do it.
I know we can do it!
Tomorrow we must start extensive tests
to ensure the birth of your baby.
Papa.
Huh?
Will you do me a favor?
Anything, my darling, anything.
Will you see Gerald?
(laughing)
I'll have to now, won't I?
I love you, Papa.
Not as much as I love you.
I'll send Gerald.
Now the important thing
to remember about Papa
is to let him do all the talking.
He loves to talk.
He's very old, much older than he looks.
And he mustn't be excited
because his heart is very bad.
You make it sound as if
Papa were an ogre or something
and you should be frightened of him.
We don't mean it like that.
You and he will get along
just fine, I feel it.
If you handle Papa right,
you'll find he'll come completely around
to your way of thinking.
Remember, you've got
the upper hand with him.
But don't let him know you feel that way
or he'll get the better of you.
He's very please about the baby,
almost as pleased as you were
when I told you about it.
Diana, it's getting late.
I think you ought to take
Gerald in before it's too late.
Then they'll have time for a
talk before he has his shot.
Oh, that's tonight isn't
it, I'd forgotten about that.
And it rises early.
I'm ready when you are.
Then let's go.
(knocking)
Diana?
Yes, Papa.
Come in.
Well don't stand in front of him,
how can I see how handsome he is
if you stand in front of him?
Well what do you think of him, Papa?
I did alright for myself, don't you think?
Oh you don't judge a
parcel from the wrapping,
I'll let you know later
on what I think of him,
now go on, get out of here, get out.
Oh Papa, can't I stay
and listen, please?
I'll be ever so quiet.
You, ever so quiet? (Laughing)
Go on, get out of here, I don't
want you in here, get out.
Well, don't stand there
looking like a fool,
go and sit down.
Now Diana tells me you
love her, is that true?
Isn't it obvious, I wouldn't
have married her otherwise.
Well you would have possibly
married her for her money,
couldn't you?
She never once told
me anything about her
financial background.
I fell in love with her, and she with me,
and we finally got married.
It was after the wedding that
she told me about her family.
You said you finally got married,
what do you mean by that?
You mean she didn't tell you?
I wouldn't be asking
you if she did, would I?
We lived together for two
years before getting married.
She didn't tell you?
[Papa] No.
Well she should have.
[Papa] Whose idea was it
that you should live together,
hers or yours?
It was hers.
[Papa] Well from now on, I'll
take everything you tell me
as the absolute truth.
I'd be foolish to tell you lies.
You would so easily ask your daughter
if they were true or not.
When you said just
now that you and Diana
lived together before you got married,
did she tell you the reason why?
She believed we should
live together as man and wife
to see if we're compatible.
I wasn't too fond of the idea of it.
Diana has a way of getting
her own way eventually.
Wasn't it rather
difficult to live together
in the eyes of society?
We lived in a small village,
away from her school and
my place of business.
We passed ourselves off as man and wife
and no one knew otherwise.
And then you eventually got married?
When Diana came of age, she told me.
I asked her to marry me and she did.
Did Diana tell you anything
about our family background?
[Gerald] No, not really.
Well I'm going to.
You may not believe it all,
but it's absolutely true.
The Mooneys are a very, very old family,
they go back for many, many centuries.
They came originally from northern Europe.
Once they were immensely rich.
They had great holdings of land.
Three centuries ago, my great-grandfather
was bitten by an animal.
This animal was afflicted
with a dreaded disease
which was passed on to
all members of the family
through the birth of each new child.
At the time of this accident
to my great-grandfather,
there were few descendants of the Mooneys.
A plague had taken them in
the region where they lived.
The Mooneys dwindled until
it was only this family left.
None of the Mooneys had any
chance of marrying except Diana.
And it is a chance we're taking
to let her have her baby.
Diana's mother was of
clean blood when I took her
for my second wife.
Unfortunately, she died of
poisoning after Diana was born.
[Gerald] You mean she was poisoned?
Yes.
[Gerald] By who?
I don't know.
And if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
[Gerald] That's almost
the same as saying
you know who did it.
Yeah well perhaps.
Time will tell.
You said yourself your great-grandfather
was afflicted by an animal bite.
You meant your
great-great-grandfather, didn't you?
I meant exactly what I said.
But that would make you...
180 years old
That's impossible.
Nothing is impossible, my boy.
That is why I need my shots.
When I was a younger man, a doctor,
I invented a formula that
would prevent me from aging
and prolong my life.
That is why Diana was
sent to medical school
in order to help me with my experiments.
You see my boy, we planned
everything very carefully
in advance.
We will all be able to extend our lives.
That would be impossible.
Nothing is impossible, my boy.
Someday, man will be able to fly.
He will be able to live on other planets.
It will be possible to freeze a body
and bring it back to life
long after he's discovered
medicines to prolong life.
You're in 1899, think what
the new century will bring.
You've read of Jules Verne,
whom everyone calls mad?
He is telling the world of things to come
and no one will listen.
But he is right, and they are wrong.
My Diana will contribute to
the future of the new world
by continuing my experiments
on the plants in the backyard.
And my Diana... (growling)
Mr. Mooney, Mr. Mooney!
Diana, Diana, quickly!
Diana!
(growling)
(intense music)
(growling)
Papa.
Papa!
Papa!
(crying)
You never knew about me and Papa.
I loved Papa more than any
of you could ever know.
And Papa loved me.
That's why he is the way he is.
It wasn't meant to be.
We were punished by what Papa and I did.
There's something else you don't know.
I poisoned your mama, Diana.
I couldn't bear to see
her and Papa together.
I don't expect either of
you ever to forgive me.
(crying)
(dramatic music)
(growling)
(screaming)
(glass breaking)
(yelling)
[Diana] Mortimer!
What is it?
Mortimer!
Mortimer!
(growling)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(screaming)
(screaming)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
Where did you get it?
I bought it in town today.
Do you have any bullets for it?
Promise you're not going to be mad at me
for what I tell you.
There's no time for anyone
to be mad at anything, tell me.
You know your mama's silver cross?
I took it today while you were sleeping.
Well what do you want that for?
I needed it to make bullets for the gun.
Well couldn't you use the normal ones?
They wouldn't be effective, they have to
be made of silver and
from someone you love.
I knew how much you loved that cross
and it had to be done before tonight.
Can you forgive me?
Of course, we haven't
much time, come on.
And incidentally, give me the gun.
Is it loaded?
Yes.
(sinister music)
(gunshot)
(growling)
(dramatic music)
(gunshots)
(crying)
Do you feel better now,
would you like some more tea?
No thank you, I'm alright, really.
I think we better leave for town.
We'll go to the police station first
and tell them everything.
What I can't understand is how you managed
to keep them from killing
each other before now.
Whenever it was a full moon,
Papa used to give them all sedatives
and lock them in their rooms.
Then I had to give him a shot and lock him
in his room as well.
In the morning, I used to
let them all out again.
Well I think we better
make for the police station.
In a way, it will be
quite a relief to have
all this off my mind.
It's going to be nice to have the house
all to ourselves.
What makes you think we're staying here?
Well surely you don't
intend to go anywhere else.
We'll go back to
Scotland where we're happy.
I hate Scotland.
No, my darling, we're going to stay here
for the rest of our lives.
We're going back to Scotland.
We can sell the house and
have plenty to live on
wherever we choose.
This house will never be sold.
We're going back to Scotland.
(laughing)
You, my darling, are not going anywhere.
You see, I don't need you anymore.
You've served your purpose,
you've sired my baby.
I really don't see any
further use for you.
You see, there's one little
thing I forgot to tell you.
I am different from the rest of my family.
I can change myself at will.
(dramatic music)
(growling)
(humming)
It's pretty warm today, isn't it?
A little.
Would you like me to
make you some lemonade?
A little later, perhaps.
You sure you feel alright?
I'm fine, Mrs. Vaschinksy, just fine.
I never thought you'd get over the shock
of finding your whole family
and husband murdered like that.
I'd really rather not talk about it.
Do you think the
police will ever find out
who or what did it?
Please, Mrs. Vaschinsky.
I hope it's a boy.
I'm almost certain it's going to be a boy.
That's what you want isn't it, a boy?
I don't really mind,
as long as it's healthy.
It's going to be a beautiful baby.
I've always liked the name of William.
But then you always
called him Bill or Will.
Course if it's a girl,
there's all the flower names
to choose from.
There's Iris, and Violet.
Lily or Rose.
Or Petunia.
(laughing)
That's not a very nice
name, I don't think.
Imagine a young girl growing up
and finding herself stuck
with a name like Petunia.
Of course it could be worse,
there are lots of other funny names, too.
But you have to be very careful
when you christen a baby,
you know, because when they
grow up, they don't tend to...
(light, happy music)