Thir13en Ghosts
Appearance
Thir13en Ghosts is a 2001 American horror science fiction film in which a family must try to survive being killed by 12 tormented ghosts that are held captive in a house they have inherited. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name.
- Directed by William Castle and written by Robb White.
Misery loves company.
Dennis Rafkin
[edit]- I'm getting my ass out of the big glass house!
- In case you haven't noticed, I'm a bit of a freak! I get within 10 feet of anything dead, and I go into seizures. I touch anyone and a whole lifetime of shit just flashes in front of my eyes! So yeah, I'm a little depraved!
- [As Arthur begins to descend down the basement stairs] What are you doing? What did I say? Did I say there was a petting zoo downstairs? No! There are ghosts downstairs, Arthur!
- Hey Glass Family Robinson! You're wasting your breath! This is ectobar glass, it's soundproof.
- Oh Cyrus, you crazy son of a bitch. What did you do?
Maggie
[edit]- [Walking through house wreckage, last lines] This is it for me. I'm on the first fuckin' plane back to Newark. Uh-uh. I am sorry, family, Kathy, Bobby, uncle , ghosts. I am sick of this nanny shit. I've had it. This was not in the job description. I QUIT!
- [Talking to herself] Stuck in here, bunch of crazy white people...
- Did the lawyer split?
- Miss Maggie does not do windows.
Kalina
[edit]- We have 10 minutes until the ectoplasmic shit hits the fan.
- I've got enough explosives to blow us back to the fifteenth century.
- W-why are you so mad at me? I did everything you asked me to do. I've killed Damon, I stole the book and spells. I even made sure your pathetic nephew didn't get himself killed.
- Looks to me like I'm saving your ass!
Cyrus Kriticos
[edit]- (triggering walls to crush and kill Kalina) We all have to make sacrifices.
Dialogue
[edit]- Dennis Rafkin: [Seeing that several of the ghost cell doors are now open] What the hell? Give me those! [Takes Maggie's glasses] Let me see. Why are these open? I was down here before. They weren't open. [The Hammer spikes the ectoplasmic wall frame with his hammer] Oh, God! I hate it when they do that!
- Maggie: Do what?
- Dennis Rafkin: They wait for your to stick your face right up against the glass! And then give you a big, fat BOO!
- Rafkin: Oh. Oh boy.
- Maggie: What?
- Rafkin: Uh, that's the symbol of The Jackal.
- Maggie: What's The Jackal?
- Rafkin: The Jackal is the Charlie Manson of ghosts and if The Jackal's out, screw the kid! We gotta get out of this basement!
- Maggie: [The Angry Princess walks toward Maggie with a butcher knife] Where? I can't see shit without the glasses, idiot!
- Rafkin: ...Well, I can see. And I think you should go this way. Go, go, go, go! [Ạs they run down another hallway]
- Rafkin: There are ghosts in the basement!
- Maggie: [Points down] In this basement?
- Rafkin: Of course in this basement! What is it with you people? If it were next door, I wouldn't give a shit!
- Rafkin: [Psychically probes the junkyard, then yells out in pain] You son of a bitch! You said he only killed nine people! There's over forty victims here!
- Cyrus: Nine when he was alive. He's added a few since then.
- Kalina: Who are you to play God?
- Cyrus: Playing is for children.
- Maggie: Bobby, don't call your sister a slut.
- Kathy: Thank you, Maggie.
- Maggie: I prefer the term bitch.
- Arthur: He wasn't too popular. My dad said he squandered the family fortune.
- Kathy: We have a family fortune?
- Arthur: Well, no. Cyrus squandered it.
- Maggie: Hey Bobby, isn't that great? You got a late uncle.
- Bobby: What is he late for?
- Kathy: His next birthday.
- Bobby: [Excitedly] You mean he's dead?!
- Kathy: Now we get his attention.
- Rafkin: I know this is gonna sound completely whacked, but just- just stay with me, okay? I used to hunt displaced spiritual energies with your uncle.
- Arthur: I'm sorry?
- Rafkin: Uhh, P.K. agents. Revenants. Uh, uh, uh - Like wraiths. Wraiths? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
- Arthur: [Chuckling nervously and shaking his head “no”] Uhh...
- Rafkin: That's okay - that's okay. I'll do it the easy way. Ghosts. I used to hunt ghosts with your uncle Cyrus.
- Arthur: [after a long pause] Goats?
- Rafkin: GHOSTS! Ghosts! Goddammit, listen to me!
- Arthur: I told them not to leave this spot.
- Rafkin: What do you expect? They're kids.
- Arthur: Well, thank you, Dr. Phil.
- Rafkin: I hate this job.
- Kalina: It doesn't seem to like you much either. Wonder why.
- Rafkin: If you have something to say, just say it.
- Kalina: Oh okay then...why don't we start with: This is all your goddamn fault!!! If you didn't catch them we wouldn't be running from them now would we?!
- Rafkin: It's his uncle that built the damn house!
- Kalina: Yeah, but you helped him! How could you help him without knowing what he was doing?
- Rafkin: I had my reasons.
- Kalina: Money, you parasite! You stole people's souls for money. How depraved is that?
- Rafkin: If you hadn't noticed. I'm a little bit of a freak! I come within ten feet of anything dead I go into seizures. I touch somebody and a whole life full of shit flashes in front of my eyes; alright so yeah I'm depraved and Cyrus was my friend and he accepted me so...
- Kalina: He didn't accept you, you're so pathetic! He used you!
- Arthur: Shut up, both of you. Cut him some slack. What difference does it make?
- Kalina: You didn't tell him, did you?
- Arthur: Oh god, tell me what, what now?
- Kalina: About the fourth ghost.
- Rafkin: No, don't do this. I didn't tell him. Don't do this.
- Kalina: He has a right to know!
- Rafkin: What about the fourth ghost?
- Kalina: St. Luke's hospital, six months ago.
- Arthur: You're saying my wife's spirit is trapped in this house?
- Rafkin: I didn't know you. I didn't know her. I didn't know she had a husband.
- Arthur: Why in God's name? Why? Tell me why her!
- Rafkin: I don't know why. Cyrus handpicked them all, including your wife. When I found out who you were, God, I've been trying to help you.
- Arthur: You call this help? She's right, this is all your goddamn fault!
- Ben Moss: Now he's gonna tell you that Cyrus owed him money.
- Rafkin: He did owe me money. He owed me a shit load of money!
- Kalina: [Looking up] We gotta go.
- Arthur: I'm not leaving without my kids!
- Kalina: [Still looking up] Try telling him that.
- [Arthur looks up to see Kalina looking at the First Born Son]
- Rafkin: Quite a place you've got.
- Kathy: Yeah. We're moving in!
- Arthur: [Holds up key] Well... one step at a time. [Inserts key in door, opens it and enters]
- Bobby: Dad! You broke it!
- Kathy: Bobby. Give it a rest.
- Rafkin: S-stop!
- Maggie: W-what??
- Rafkin: D-don't move! Don't speak! Somehow....we are behind enemy lines. [First Born Son approaches them] Hey little guy. [Holds up hand] How?
- Maggie: I don't think you should be doing that!
- Rafkin: Shut up!
- Maggie: YOU shut up! You're the one who keeps pissing him off!
Taglines
[edit]• Terror has multiplied
• The Only Thing Worse Than Being Trapped in a House with a Ghost... Is Being Trapped in a House with 13 Ghosts
• What's more terrifying than a ghost... Thirteen of them
• There are ghosts around us all the time. Most of them don't want to hurt us. But, there are exceptions...
• Terror Wants Company
External links
[edit]- Thirteen Ghosts quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Thirteen Ghosts at Allmovie
