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returns to his bed where the young Karen Werdegast
lies. He tells her that she is the core and meaning of his
Then Poelzig goes upstairs and discovers that, despite his
order for her to stay secluded, Karen has entered Joan's
life, and reads a book describing The Rites of Lucifer by
moonlight. Originally the book was to have been Ibsen's
play When We Dead Awaken, the story of a sculptor
who made a marble statue in the image of his lover,
room
which Ulmer had
two Karens. The
cultists.
planned to use as a metaphor for the
poetic idea was changed during the
through the connecting door. With murderous
he corners Karen off camera and murders her. Joan
faints, and Poelzig stares madly at "the dark of the
moon" while his servants "prepare things" for the
eyes,
Unfortunately, the maturity of these
by the confusion of the remain¬
ing reels. Poelzig decides to use Joan as a sacrifice in his
"Black Mass" and challenges Werdegast to a chess
match over her destiny. Thamal draws a knife, but Wer¬
degast instructs him to "obey Poelzig" until he is told
otherwise. Sensing danger, the husband tells Poelzig that
he and Joan want to leave, but "the car is out of com¬
mission" and "even the phone is dead." Werdegast is
checkmated, and Peter during an escape attempt is
throttled by Thamal, who deposits him in the cellar and
carries the fainted Joan to her room. Triumphant,
Poelzig strides over to a terrace organ and vents his
emotions by playing a Bach toccata.
Werdegast warns Joan that she is
supposed to play "an important part" in the ritual.
When he leaves her room, Poelzig is waiting at the bot¬
tom of the staircase and takes the key from Werdegast.
enter the basement chapel. Wer¬
because Poelzig has suggested that
"the ceremony will interest him." Joan is abducted and
lashed to an inverted cross. When the organist stops,
Poelzig chants a Latin litany over her body.
Suddenly, a female cultist screams
and faints, interrupting the ceremony. Werdegast seizes
his advantage, and he and Thamal release Joan. When
Werdegast tries to drag Joan to an exit, she reveals that
his daughter is still alive and has in fact become Poelzig's
wife. Horrified, he runs into the fort's control chamber
(now the "embalming room") and screams as he sees
Karen lying dead under a sheet.
Poelzig pounces on Werdegast, but
Thamal (mortally wounded by the majordomo) over¬
powers him and ties him down to an embalming rack.
With eyes glazed, Werdegast selects a knife, rips off
Poelzig's shirt, and rants the following (cited here the
way Ulmer wrote it): "Did you ever see an animal
skinned, Hjalmar? That's what I'm going to do to
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American
moments
All
degast is there,
filming.
is undermined
too,
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