Quotes

Tangina: There is no death. It is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness.

Carol Anne: They're here.

Diane: TV people?

Carol Anne: Uh-huh.

Diane: Do you see them?

Carol Anne: Uh-uh. Do you?

Diane: Uh-uh.

Diane: You were saying about poltergeists.

Dr. Lesh: Poltergeists are usually associated with an individual. Hauntings seem to be connected with an area. A house usually.

Marty: Poltergeist disturbances are of a fairly short duration. Perhaps a couple of months. Hauntings can go on for years.

Diane: Are you telling me that all of this could just suddenly end at any time?

Dr. Lesh: Yes, it could. Unless it's a haunting. But hauntings don't usually revolve around living people.

Diane: Then we don't have much time, Dr. Lesh, because my daughter is alive somewhere inside this house.

Tangina: Help me tie this around my waist.

Diane: What do you think you're doing?

Tangina: I'm going in after her.

Diane: She won't come to you. Let me go.

Tangina: You've never done this before.

Diane: Neither have you.

[pause]

Tangina: You're right. You go.

Dana: WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Dr. Lesh: Well, I'm off. Now these tapes, I am going to have to present them you know.

Steve: But please, not on "60 Minutes".

Diane: Or "That's Incredible."

Diane: We were wondering if you had experienced any... disturbances?

Ben Tuthill: What kind of disturbances?

Diane: Oh, you know... dishes or furniture, moving around by themselves.

Tangina: Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.

Diane: She just moved through me. My God. I felt her. I can smell her. It's her. It's her. Smell my clothes. It's her. She's all over me. It's her. She's on me. It's her. I felt her. It's her. It is. It's... it is... it's my baby. It's my baby. She went through my soul.

Dr. Lesh: Diane, the determination is to whether your home is haunted is... is not very easy. I... what I meant to say was it might very well be a poltergeist intrusion instead of a classic haunting.

Dr. Lesh: I'm leaving Ryan here with you. Marty won't be coming back. I... I'm coming back. And I'll bring some help. Try not to worry.

Tangina: Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.

Diane: Get away from my baby.

Steve: [shouting in Teague's face] You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You-only-moved-the-headstones! Lies! Lies!

Diane: Mmmmm... smell that mimosa.

Steve: Well you better cut a bouquet and take it with you, because we're not staying.

Ben Tuthill: Mosquito ever suck on you, son?

Tuthills's Son: I don't know, Dad.

Robbie: Hey Mom! When it rots can we dig up the bones?

[first lines]

Carol Anne: Hello? What do you look like? Talk louder, I can't hear you! Hey, hello! Hello, I can't hear you! Five. Yes. Yes. I don't know. I don't know.

Tangina: This house has many hearts.

Carol Anne: [puts a twizzler in the Tweety's coffin] For when he's hungry.

Carol Anne: [puts a picture in Tweety's coffin] For when he's lonely.

Carol Anne: [puts a piece of cloth in Tweety's coffin] For when it's bedtime.

[breaks down in tears in Mom's arms]

Tangina: There is no death. There is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. Carol Anne is not like those she's with. She is a living presence in their spiritual earthbound plain. They are attracted to the one thing about her that is different from themselves - her lifeforce. It is very strong. It gives off its own illumination. It is a light that implies life and memory of love and home and earthly pleasures, something they desperately desire but can't have anymore. Right now, she's the closest thing to that, and that is a terrible distraction from the real LIGHT that has finally come for them. You understand me? These souls, who for whatever reason are not at rest, are also not aware that they have passed on. They're not part of consciousness as we know it. They linger in a perpetual dreamstate, a nightmare from which they can not awake. Inside the spectral light is salvation, a window to the next plain. They must pass through this membrane where friends are waiting to guide them to new destinies. Carol Anne must help them cross over, and she will only hear her mother's voice. Now hold on to yourselves... There's one more thing. A terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal, I've never sensed anything like it. I don't know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you. It keeps Carol Anne very close to it and away from the spectral light. It LIES to her, it tells her things only a child could understand. It has been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply IS another child. To us, it is the BEAST. Now, let's go get your daughter.

Steve: Whoever might complain?

Teague: Nobody's complained until now.

Dr. Lesh: Hmm! Think we'll spend the night downstairs.

Steve: I was trying to answer her with my mind and she couldn't hear me. Now I thought you said this Tangina Barens was an extraordinary...

Tangina: [offscreen] I can. I just don't like trick answers.

Tangina: Tell her to go to the light!

Diane: NO!

Jeff Shaw: Open up! Ahh shit!

Diane: How is it?

Pool Worker #1: Great Mrs. Freeling!

Diane: Okay Bluto, give me my cup.

Pool Worker #1: You sure make good coffee!

Carol Anne: I want pepperoni pizza!

Dana: Mom! I'm going to dinner with Janice and Brian.

Diane: Is your room all packed up?

Dana: Everything but the bed!

Teague: How's that spot for a bay window?

Carol Anne: [the second attack starts] No more.