- Can Dracula really be as old as it says here?
- We believe it's possible. Vampires are known to have gone on from century to century. Records show that Count Dracula could be 500 or 600 years old.

Abraham Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), Arthur Holmwood (Michael Gough)

11 seconds sound clip from the Horror of Dracula (1958) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:57:04.833 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Please try and understand. This is not Lucy, the sister you loved. It's only a shell. Possessed and corrupted by the evil of Dracula! To liberate her soul and give it eternal peace, we must destroy that shell for all time!

- Believe me, there is no other way.

(LUCY SCREAMING AND MOANING)

- Drink this.

- Oh, I'm all right now.

- Drink it.

- Thanks.

- There's so much in Jonathan's diary I don't understand.

- Can Dracula really be as old as it says here?

- We believe it's possible. Vampires are known to have gone on from century to century. Records show that Count Dracula could be 500 or 600 years old.

- Another thing. I always understood that, if there were such things, they could change themselves into bats or wolves.

- That's a common fallacy.

- The study of these creatures has been my life's work. I've carried out research with some of the greatest authorities in Europe. And yet, we've only just scratched the surface.

- You see, a great deal is known about the vampire bat, but details of these re-animated bodies of the dead, the undead, as we call them, are so obscure, that many biologists will not believe they exist.

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