Hellraiser (1987)
Quotes
[Pinhead appears from the shadows behind Kirsty]
Lead Cenobite: We have such sights to show you!
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty, in tears] Who are you?
Lead Cenobite: Explorers, in the further regions of experience. Demons to some, angels to others.
[Kirsty meets the Cenobites for the first time]
Lead Cenobite: The box, you opened it, we came.
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty screams] It's just a puzzle box!
Lead Cenobite: Oh no, it is a means to summon us.
[Frank sees Kristy while constrained in chains]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Jesus wept.
[chuckling]
[last lines]
Asian Merchant: [the Asian Merchant sits across the table with the puzzle box] What's your pleasure, sir?
Lead Cenobite: I want to hear him confess, himself. Then maybe... maybe.
Female Cenobite: But if you cheat us...
Lead Cenobite: We'll tear your soul apart!
[Kirsty finds the skinless Frank in the attic]
Frank Cotton: Kirsty, It's Frank. It's Uncle Frank.
Kirsty Cotton: No!
Frank Cotton: You remember.
Kirsty Cotton: No!
Frank Cotton: Come to Daddy.
Kirsty Cotton: [Frank grabs onto Kirsty's waist] Get the fuck off of me!
Frank Cotton: [Frank closes the door to them in the attic] You've grown. You're beautiful.
[in a flashback, we see Frank open the box and be tortured by the Cenobites]
Frank the Monster: [voice-over] I thought I'd gone to the limits. I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible.
[Kirsty begs for the Cenobites to leave her alone]
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty cries] Please! Go! Go away and leave me alone!
Lead Cenobite: Oh, no tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering!
[Kirsty kneels down over her father's skinned body]
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, my God! Daddy. Daddy!
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): No, don't mourn him. He was dead long before we ever touched him.
Kirsty Cotton: [screaming] Bastard!
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Oh, hush now. Everything's all right. Frank's here.
Kirsty Cotton: [screams] Bastard!
Lead Cenobite: [to Kirsty] This isn't for your eyes!
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): [Frank looks at Kirsty] You set me up, bitch!
[the Cenobites find Frank in the attic]
Lead Cenobite: FRANK!
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): No!
Female Cenobite: We had to hear it from your own lips.
[the Asian Merchant sells Frank the puzzle box]
Asian Merchant: Take it. It's yours.
Asian Merchant: [Frank takes the box and walks off] It always was.
[the moving man asks Julia for a beer]
Moving Man 2: You got any beer?
Julia: There's some in the fridge.
Larry: Oh, well. Why don't I get it? I've got nothing better to do.
[Larry sarcastically drops the mattress he was carrying]
[Frank asks to touch Julia with his skinless body]
Frank the Monster: Come here. Come here, damn you, I want to touch you.
Frank the Monster: [Frank smiles] Come to Daddy.
[Frank looks to Kirsty with half of Larry's face scratched open]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): [Frank clicks his switchblade open] So much for the cat and mouse shit.
[Kirsty opens the puzzle box to send the Cenobites back to hell]
Lead Cenobite: No! Don't do that!
Kirsty Cotton: GO TO HELL!
[first lines]
Asian Merchant: [the Asian Merchant greets Frank] What's your pleasure, Mr. Cotton?
Frank Cotton: The box.
[Kirsty shows up at the homestead when the moving men are there]
Kirsty Cotton: Excuse me.
Moving Man 2: My lucky day.
Kirsty Cotton: Hi.
Moving Man 2: Do you want to buy a bed?
Kirsty Cotton: Not much.
[Kirsty sees the size of the old homestead]
Kirsty Cotton: This is a big house.
Larry: You like?
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty glances around] Yeah. Me likes.
Larry: Well, I'll give the grand tour if we ever get this god-damn bed moved.
Moving Man 2: That your daughter?
Larry: Uh-huh.
Moving Man 2: [about Julia] Got her mother's looks.
Larry: Her mother's dead.
Moving Man 2: [the moving man goes quiet] Oh.
[Kirsty looks upon Pinhead standing in the shadows]
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, shit!
[Kirsty realizes that Frank is wearing her father's skin]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Stay with us. We can all be happy here.
Kirsty Cotton: No...
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Come to daddy.
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty gasps] Oh, my God.
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Come... to daddy!
[the phone rings downstairs in the homestead]
Larry: What the hell's that?
[Kirsty calls her father Larry]
Larry: Who is this?
Kirsty Cotton: Dad.
Larry: Kirsty!
Kirsty Cotton: I got through.
Larry: Barely, where are you?
[Larry tells Kirsty to be gentle with Julia during their current move]
Kirsty Cotton: Is Julia here?
Larry: She's upstairs. Look, be gentle with her, okay? She hates moving.
Kirsty Cotton: Surprise.
Larry: Kirsty.
Kirsty Cotton: Okay, all right. I'll be nice. You get on with the grunt work.
[in a flashback, Julia relives the first time she met Frank, who is coming in from the rain]
Frank Cotton: Can I come in? Can I come in?
[Julia remains silent]
Frank Cotton: You're Julia, right?
Julia: That's right. Who are you?
Frank Cotton: I'm Frank. I'm brother Frank.
Julia: [Julia smiles with delight] Oh, yes.
Frank Cotton: I, uh... I came for the wedding. Well, can I come in or not?
[in a flashback, Julia sees her first kiss with Frank]
Frank Cotton: What should we drink to? Wedded bliss?
Julia: I'm very happy.
Frank Cotton: Oh, sure you are. Are you going to let me kiss the bride?
[in a flashback, Julia relives the first time she and Frank have sex]
Julia: What about Larry?
Frank Cotton: [Frank clicks out his switchblade] Forget him.
[in a flashback, Julia and Frank finish having sex]
Frank Cotton: It's never enough.
Julia: [begging him not to leave her] Please. I'll do anything you want. Anything.
Kirsty Cotton: [as Kirsty struggles with the Chatterer Cenobite] It was a mistake! I didn't... I didn't mean to open it! It was a mistake! You can... Ah! GO TO HELL!
Female Cenobite: We can't. Not alone.
Lead Cenobite: You solved the box. We came. Now you must come with us. Taste our pleasures.
[Larry tells his dinner guests about the hospital visit for his hand]
Larry: I'm not kidding. This Doctor's poking around with all of the delicacy and compassion of Josef Mengele. And I'm warning him, "Listen, I'm gonna pass out!" And he said, "Oh, no, of course you're not, old boy. Of course you're not." Next thing you know, I'm on the floor and he's standing there like he's the one who needs help!
Bill: Probably was afraid you were gonna sue him.
Larry: I should do it! Bill, I should - you know all about that stuff. I'll call you tomorrow. We'll sue his ass!
[Steve pours Kirsty a glass of wine]
Kirsty Cotton: Okay. Okay, stop. I'm not gonna be able to stand up.
Steve: [flirtatiously] So lie down.
[Julia leads her 1st victim into her home]
1st Victim: You know, it's funny. I... I feel like I've known you for years. You know?
1st Victim: [he tries kissing Julia, who is reluctant] What's the matter? What? This is what you brought me here for, isn't it? Well, isn't it?
Julia: I suppose so, yes.
1st Victim: So what's your problem? Let's get on with it.
1st Victim: [Julia pushes the man back from her, angering him] You're not gonna change your fucking mind, are you?
1st Victim: [quietly] I'm sorry.
Julia: Let's go upstairs.
Frank the Monster: I'm hurting.
Julia: Hurting?
Frank the Monster: My nerves are beginning to work again.
Julia: Good.
Frank the Monster: One more, maybe two.
Julia: Not again.
Frank the Monster: To heal me completely! Then we can be away from here before they start to follow.
Julia: Who?
Frank the Monster: The Cenobites. It's only a matter of time before they find I've slipped them.
[the female Cenobite follows Kirsty up the stairs]
Female Cenobite: [running her blade over the wall] Not leaving us so soon, are you?
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Where are you, beautiful? Come out, come out, wherever you are!
[Julia finds a puddle of liquid maggots being eaten by rats in the attic]
Julia: [disgusted] Oh, God!
[when she screams, a hand grabs her ankle]
[Julia finds the undeveloped Frank in the attic]
Frank the Monster: Julia!
Julia: [gasps] Oh, my God.
Frank the Monster: Don't look at me.
Julia: [whimpers] Who are you?
Frank the Monster: I said, don't look. Help me!
Julia: Tell me who you are!
Frank the Monster: Frank.
Julia: [gasps] No. No!
Frank the Monster: Believe me. It's me. It's really me. His blood on the floor. It brought me back.
Julia: [trembling] Back? From where?
Frank the Monster: Just help me, will you? Please, God, help me!
[Kirsty finds a completely silent Julia on the stairs]
Kirsty Cotton: Hi. Are you all right?
Steve: [Julia remains silent; Steve joins them] Kirsty? I thought I lost you.
Kirsty Cotton: No, I'm here.
Kirsty Cotton: [Kirsty nervously walks away from Julia] Good night.
Steve: So why didn't you stay at Larry's house? There's plenty of room.
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, yeah, there's room. There's Julia.
[Kirsty tells Steve why she doesn't like Julia]
Kirsty Cotton: She's like you. She's so damn polite.
Steve: Oh, yeah, meaning what?
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, I don't know. She's uptight and frigid.
Steve: I beg your pardon?
Kirsty Cotton: Huh, see, there you go! "I beg your pardon."
Steve: Hey, we're not all frigid.
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, no?
Steve: Oh, no.
Kirsty Cotton: Oh, no?
Steve: Oh, no.
Kirsty Cotton: That's not what I heard.
Steve: Well, you must've been speaking to all of the wrong people.
[as the two kiss]
[Julia has a drink by herself to pick up a man]
1st Victim: How much fun is it?
Julia: What?
1st Victim: Drinking alone?
Julia: Not much.
[Julia takes a drink]
[Julia takes her 1st victim into her home]
1st Victim: You know, it's not often that I, uh... well, you know.
Julia: [Julia smiles] There's a first time for everything.
[Julia walks her 1st victim into the empty attic]
1st Victim: This isn't the bedroom.
Julia: [smiles nervously] No.
1st Victim: So, what's going on?
Julia: We don't need a bed, do we?
1st Victim: [smiles] Well, no, I suppose not.
Julia: I've always preferred the floor.
1st Victim: Oh. First time for everything, eh?
[Julia's 1st victim undresses while looking at her]
1st Victim: You're very beautiful.
Julia: Am I?
1st Victim: You know you are.
[Julia murders her 1st victim]
1st Victim: [at the attic door] Did you lock this?
1st Victim: [Julia hits the man over the head] Please! Please!
Frank the Monster: [Julia hits the man two more times before he collapses dead, and the undeveloped Frank crawls out from the shadows] Don't look at me.
[Frank shows Julia his body becoming more whole again]
Frank the Monster: See? It's making me whole again. Every drop of blood you spill the more flesh you put on my bones. And we both want that, don't we?
Frank the Monster: [Julia whimpers, nodding] Good.
[Julia keeps Larry obedient to help the skinless Frank]
Larry: [from downstairs] Julia? Are you all right?
Julia: [yells down] Just a moment. Put on some music, will you, babe?
Larry: [downstairs] Yeah, sure.
Frank the Monster: Poor Larry. Obedient as ever.
[Julia agrees to help the skinless Frank]
Julia: You're hurting.
Frank the Monster: You won't cheat me, will you? You'll stay with me, help me? Then we can be together the way we were before. We belong to each other now, for better or for worse. Like love... only real.
[as Julia rubs Frank's finger tip over her lips]
[Kirsty sees the homeless man staring at her from the pet shop]
Steve: What's wrong?
Kirsty Cotton: Something really weird.
Steve: What?
Kirsty Cotton: [as Kirsty sees the homeless man is gone] Nothing.
[Kirsty sees the homeless man grab a handful of crickets with his glove]
Kirsty Cotton: What are you doing? Give those back!
Kirsty Cotton: [as he raises his hand up to eat them, crunching] Oh, my God.
[Julia seduces her 2nd victim back into her home]
2nd Victim: Are you sure we're not gonna be interrupted?
Julia: [Julia smiles] Quite sure.
2nd Victim: Only I, uh... like to be careful.
[the skinless Frank smokes a cigarette]
Frank the Monster: I can taste that. It's a long time since I tasted anything.
[the skinless Frank shows Julia the box]
Frank the Monster: You promised me an explanation.
Frank the Monster: [Frank holds up the box] This is it.
Julia: Let me see!
Frank the Monster: No, don't touch it! It's dangerous. It opens doors.
Julia: What kind of doors?
Frank the Monster: The doors to the pleasures of Heaven or Hell. I didn't care which.
Frank the Monster: They won't get me back. I'm going to live and you're going to help me, yes?
Julia: Yes. They'll never find us, not in the whole wide world.
[Julia tries to stop Larry from investigating the banging in the attic]
Julia: It was nothing.
Julia: [as Larry moves to go upstairs] Larry!
Larry: What's the matter with you, anyway?
Julia: It's just - It's just that I hate the thunder.
Larry: [the thunder and lightening continues] I'm here. You're safe. You're trembling. This is nothing to be afraid of.
Julia: [Julia sees the skinless Frank come out of the closet behind Larry] No.
[Frank silently walks to the foot of the bed]
Julia: No, please, don't. No, please. I can't bear it. Please! No, please, no! Please. Please! No!
[Frank stands quietly, slicing open a rat with his switchblade]
Julia: I can't bear it! Please, no!
Larry: [as Julia whimpers and cries, Larry stops] I don't understand you. I mean, one minute... you're all over me. And the next... I just don't understand you.
[Larry tells Kirsty that something's wrong with Julia]
Larry: I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't have come back. You know, Brooklyn certainly wasn't any worse than this.
Kirsty Cotton: Look. You love her, so there must be something worth loving.
Larry: I wish it were that simple. I've got a real problem here, kiddo. She doesn't even want to leave the house.
Kirsty Cotton: Really?
Larry: It's like she's waiting for something.
Kirsty Cotton: What?
Larry: I don't know... I don't know. It's way beyond me.
[the skinless Frank suggests to Julia that they murder Larry]
Frank the Monster: You can't love him.
Julia: You know I don't.
Frank the Monster: So where's the harm?
Julia: I said no.
Frank the Monster: Then find me somebody else before they come looking. Now.
[Julia leads her 3rd victim through her home]
3rd Victim: I, uh... I get lonely sometimes.
Julia: [Julia looks up towards the attic] Everybody does.
[Julia's 3rd victim enters the attic]
3rd Victim: What is this? A game?
3rd Victim: [when the man sees the skinless Frank standing in the corner] Jesus Christ!
Frank the Monster: [as Kirsty picks up the puzzle box] No! Give me that.
Kirsty Cotton: No.
Frank the Monster: Give it to me.
Kirsty Cotton: You want it?
Frank the Monster: One last time. Give me that box.
Kirsty Cotton: You want it?
Frank the Monster: Give me the box!
Kirsty Cotton: [screaming] You want it? Fucking have it!
Frank the Monster: [Frank screams as Kirsty throws the box out the attic window] NO!
[the Doctor shows Kirsty the puzzle box]
Doctor: What about this? Ring any bells? You were hanging onto it like grim death.
Kirsty Cotton: I don't remember.
[the skinless Frank assaults Kirsty in the attic]
Kirsty Cotton: Don't... don't touch me. Don't touch me, or so help me, I...
Frank the Monster: What'll you do? What can you do? There's nothing to be afraid of. Bet you make your daddy so proud. Don't you, beautiful?
Kirsty Cotton: This isn't happening.
Frank the Monster: [Frank holds Kirsty up against the wall] I used to tell myself that. Used to try and pretend I was dreaming all the pain. But don't you kid yourself. Some things have to be endured. And that's what makes the pleasures so sweet!
Kirsty Cotton: Wait! Wait! Please, please wait!
Lead Cenobite: No time for argument.
Kirsty Cotton: You've done this before, right?
Lead Cenobite: Many, many times.
Kirsty Cotton: To... to a man called Frank Cotton?
Female Cenobite: Oh, yes.
Kirsty Cotton: He escaped you!
Lead Cenobite: Nobody escapes us!
Kirsty Cotton: He did! I've seen him, I've seen him! He's alive!
Lead Cenobite: Supposing he had escaped us, what has that to do with you?
Kirsty Cotton: I... I can... I can lead you to him! And you... you can take him back instead of me!
Female Cenobite: Perhaps we prefer you!
[Julia and the skinless Frank discuss what to do with Kirsty and Larry]
Julia: [the phone starts to ring] That's probably her now. Or the police.
Frank the Monster: It doesn't make any difference.
Julia: Don't you care?
Frank the Monster: What I care about is a new skin.
Julia: Maybe we should just leave.
Frank the Monster: Like this? Look at me.
Julia: We can't just stay here.
Frank the Monster: [in a low voice] My brother will be home soon.
[Frank, wearing Larry's skin, tells Kirsty that Frank is dead]
Kirsty Cotton: [in tears] Your brother Frank is upstairs. He... he's upstairs and he's trying to kill you.
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): Now, wait, wait, wait! Whatever Frank did was unspeakable. Unspeakable.
[Kirsty sobs]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): But believe me. It's finished with now.
Kirsty Cotton: Why is it finished?
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): He's gone.
Kirsty Cotton: What does gone mean?
Julia: He's dead, Kirsty.
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): He was insane, baby. A mad dog. I had to put him out of his misery. Jesus, what a scene.
[the Cenobites stand over the dead body of Larry]
Lead Cenobite: We want the man who did this.
Kirsty Cotton: No. No, that wasn't the deal. He's my father and you can't have him. NO!
[Frank stabs Julia to death]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): It's nothing personal, baby.
[Frank sees the light of the Cenobites enter through the walls of the attic]
Frank (wearing Larry's skin): What the hell is that?
Julia: What do you want me to do?
Frank the Monster: The blood brought me back this far. I need more. You have to heal me.
