 After the vampire kills several of them, Müller succeeds in driving a wooden stake through his heart.With his dying breath, Mitterhaus curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life.The angry villagers force Anna to run a gauntlet, but when her husband intervenes, she runs back into the castle where the briefly revived Count tells her to find his cousin Emil at "the Circus of Night".