(thunder crashing)
(phonograph powers up)
(slow ragtime jazz playing)
(mechanical creaking)
(chimes tinkling)
(thunder crashes)
Trick or treat. Trick or treat.
Thank you. Thank you.
Radio announcer: And at the top of the dial,
This is your witching-hour buddy,
Your voice of choice,
The one person you want to cuddle up to
On this creepy, creepy Halloween night,
Rocking ross, saying, watch out!
It's dark and dismal out there.
We got a full moon tonight,
So all you werewolves get ready with the hairspray
If you're into it.
And while we're getting ready,
Let's remind all you drivers to be extra careful.
The kiddies are going to be out in full force tonight
Wearing their Halloween costumes
And raking in a ton of dentist bait.
So make sure you take a little more time
Checking between the parked cars and at the crosswalks, okay?
Wouldn't want little johnny winding up
As a hood ornament on your caddy.
Now, coming right at you...
(screaming)
Ryan, this time you've gone too far.
This is my room...
(gasping)
What's going on?
I could hear you all the way down...
I know I said you could probably dig up a date
For the party, but...
You... (laughing)
How you doing?
It was his idea.
You juvenile little creeps.
What's the big deal?
I mean, it's all part of Halloween.
Nice job, larry.
Larry's premed.
He gets to see all these... Ugh.
(overlapping chatter, laughter nearby)
No hard feelings, okay?
Happy Halloween!
I don't know why I let you talk me
Into this party in the first place.
Would you lighten up?
Knowing you, you probably invited every weirdo in town.
I did hit most of the local haunts.
Okay. All right. I mean, it's not
Going to be the bmw crowd,
But the idea was to invite people
From the neighborhood. Remember?
Your idea. Not mine.
Look, uncle lewis didn't exactly
Have a sterling image around here.
I mean, everybody was terrified of this place.
It's up to us to let them know
That there's nothing to be scared of.
We've got to let them know that this place
Is under new management
With two decent, upstanding
Individuals at the helm.
Ryan...
Do you really think it's wise
To invite all these people into the store at once?
I mean, how are we going to keep track of everything?
Look, it's good for business.
It keeps gas in the curse-mobile.
I made a sign.
The vault is off-limits.
I don't know.
I still don't feel right about this.
You're gonna love it.
Trust me.
(indistinct party chatter continues)
(muted dance music plays)
(entrance bell chimes)
Jack: Lady guinevere had a 42-inch bust
And an iq to match. Did you know that?
Merlin, as you can see, has nothing up his sleeves.
That's a lovely dress you're almost wearing, my dear,
But why in the world have you got a plum behind your ear?
(laughter)
Is this your bosom companion?
What's this? My dear,
You've got quite enough down there.
You don't need any help.
Ryan: Are we having fun yet?
Did anybody ever tell you, you make a great-looking witch?
Why, thank you.
So what's on the agenda, houdini?
Ah, well, you know, I thought we'd, uh,
Tell a few ghost stories, maybe a few tricks.
Scare them just enough to let their hair down.
Too late for him.
(laughs) hey, frank!
Always wanted to poke around down there.
I wonder...
What are you doing? Can't you read?
You're the biggest
Wimp I have ever seen.
This isn't for us.
This is for the jerks, okay? Come on.
¶ without you, darling ¶
¶ I won't steal from you ¶
Jack: Yes, oh, yes, I think so.
Yes, it is.
I came here once. Hmm.
I'll never forget.
I saw things here that made me swear
That I was never going to come in here again.
But look at it now, it's a beautiful place.
Good. I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. Oh.
Well, as they say, new brooms are sweeping clean.
(laughing): Oh, jack.
(gasps)
Geez!
(indistinct chatter)
Jack: All right, yes.
If that's what you want then. Excuse me.
Let me get behind the wheel.
On this mystic night, ladies and gentlemen,
Let us see what the cards have to tell us.
Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen.
Used properly, the tarot
Can tell us much about the future.
(light laughter)
And the first card is... Death!
(crowd gasping)
(screaming)
Oh, great. Ha-ha, everyone's scared.
Turn on the lights.
(electricity crackling)
(screaming)
Everyone keep calm.
(screams dissipate)
Get the fuse. Gone.
This is why I prefer magic.
Technology is so undependable.
(light laughter)
This is getting weird.
Look at that.
Well, if it had three holes I could bowl with it.
Great. I'm getting out of here.
Why are you always such a wimp?
I mean, just once, can't you...
Can't you act like you got a little guts?
This is what Halloween's all about.
Who should I call up?
I don't know.
I think this whole thing is stupid.
Elvis. Let's call up elvis.
Spirits of the night,
I call to you.
If you hear me, show me a sign.
Oh, what was that?
I don't know.
I'm getting out of here.
Hey, guys, the party's happening upstairs, all right?
Ryan... No, no, no, no--
I'm serious about that sign.
Well, we were just looking around down here.
Just go look around somewhere else, okay?
Go on.
(cheering)
(loud clank)
(air hissing)
Whoever he is, he sure knows how to give a girl a hickey.
Ryan: Jack! Can I see you for a moment?
Well, sure. Jack, we've got a problem.
Excuse me. What?
What's going on, ryan?
What did you do?
There's something happening
To the crystal ball in the basement.
Weird lights and sounds.
Oh, no. Has anyone been fooling with it?
Yeah.
Oh, my god.
Woman #1: What?
(horse neighing) what is this?
Woman #2: What is that?
Oh, my god!
What is it?
(air hissing) oh, my god, it's really happening.
Oh, my god, something's happening!
I knew this place was no good!
(screaming)
Everybody out!
Out! Everybody!
(screaming continues)
Everybody out!
Don't push!
Jack: Out! All of you!
(screaming continues)
(crashing)
Ryan: What the hell?!
(horse neighing)
(air hissing)
Quiet.
(chimes tinkling)
Ryan... Draw a pentacle around the desk.
Micki, get me my bag.
(clattering)
What is happening?
Those friends of yours
Who played around with my crystal ball
Threw out a psychic line and hooked something.
What do you mean?
There are people who think that Halloween is a kid's game-- it isn't.
It's the one night of the year
The spirits of the dead
Can roam the earth with freedom.
(explosion)
Explain it all later!
(loud whooshing) in the name of melchesidek,
Belerephon and set,
I command you, spirit,
To be gone!
I command you to be gone!
From the depths of hell
To the halls of darkness to the black pit,
I command you to be gone!
Now!
(whooshing quiets)
(echoing sigh, bells tinkle)
Listen.
Is it over?
(tinkling quiets)
It better be.
I think it's gone.
Ryan: Great.
I think we could all use a drink.
Just what do you have in mind?
Don't ask-- he made up something orange and brown.
Yeah, Halloween punch-- you'll love it, it's great.
Once all around?
Micki, come on up, give me a hand.
(micki sighs)
(light knocking)
(meowing)
(doorbell tinkles)
(door creaks)
Hey, little one, what's the matter?
(weepy): I'm scared.
I lost my mom.
I was out trick-or-treating, and I got lost.
Oh, yeah, that's scary.
Do you live around here?
Down that way.
Is it far?
Well, I guess we better see you home. Come on.
(jack groans)
You must be tired, aren't you?
Jack.
Jack?
Huh.
I think he's gone.
Wonderful. Where?
(dogs barking)
(children laughing)
Woman: Here you go. Have a nice night.
Are we anywhere near?
Down there.
Okay.
Come on, honey, come on.
Come on sweetie, we gotta get going.
(children laughing)
Listen, I... I think we better turn back.
It's just down there, really.
Trick or treat. Please?
Okay.
It's not gonna do a lot of good.
It's better than just sitting there.
Besides, what if that noise
Or whatever it was comes back?
What are you gonna do,
Whip something out of jack's bag and stop it?
Besides, it's gone!
(air hissing)
Wait, wait, we're going in circles.
(laughing): Oh...
This little trick or treat game of yours is over.
Game? Yes.
Because I've gone as far as I'm going.
We're nearly there.
Oh, sure.
Please come.
(hissing continues)
(hissing grows louder)
(hissing stops)
(heavy, echoing footsteps)
Not even a hello for your old uncle lewis?
(micki breathing heavily)
Uncle lewis?
It's him-- I've seen his picture.
You look like hell.
Yes, I do, don't I?
Oh, nephew, I haven't come back to hurt you.
I couldn't, even if I wanted to.
I can't even touch you.
Look, don't you think
You've done enough damage around here?
Not to mention tonight, you've got us chasing down
Cursed objects from now until doomsday.
Uncle lewis: I know.
I know, and I'm sorry.
Sorry? Sorry? Is that all you have
To say is you're sorry?
I know.
I can understand your hate for me.
I can.
I thought I could outsmart the prince of lies,
But now I must pay for my sins,
For bringing so much evil into the world
When I sold my soul.
I've blighted the lives of so many.
But tonight, I have a chance to make amends.
I've come back to undo the curse.
(siren blaring)
In there.
(laughing)
You pride yourself on being clever,
Yet you are humiliated by a feeble trick.
You are not the man I was prepared to overcome.
You...
Lewis.
Ryan: About undoing this curse,
You can do this?
I thought curses were forever.
No, it only seems like forever.
I can do it, but I'm going to need your help.
I can only stay in this world till dawn.
I have that much time to set things right,
To undo the curse,
But then I must return to my punishment.
I only ask one thing.
I have to set right my greatest sin,
One that tears at my soul like no other:
The murder of my wife.
Murder?
I had hoped that I'd keep this to myself.
My final secret sin.
(creaking)
(siren wailing)
(fire crackling)
Uncle lewis: Grace.
My wife.
She's beautiful.
I killed her.
No, not directly and not with my hands,
But... But with my ambition,
My greed for life.
She stood in the way.
Why do you need us?
I need the amulet from the vault.
What amulet?
Well, the amulet of zohar.
Look, you cursed this stuff,
And now you want us to bring it up
From the only place it's safe?
Her soul was taken.
The amulet will free it,
So she can find peace of mind.
Just let me free grace,
And I'll end the curse.
(uncle lewis crying)
Ryan, do you think...?
I don't know.
It's for his wife. Let's go.
Well done, marshak.
You walked right into it.
(rock music blaring)
¶ with your dirty hands... ¶
Well, now, I don't think this is the cavalry.
Man: Hey, what's this?
Roadshow of the birdman of alcatraz?
I'd have known about this,
I'd have brought some peanuts.
(laughing): Yeah.
Why does all this have to happen
When jack's not around?
You know, I always imagined uncle lewis
As some sort of a monster.
I never imagined he'd do something like this.
Yeah...
And I think jack would say, "do it."
What have we got to lose?
He can't even touch us.
Uncle lewis: Oh, bless you.
This means so much to me.
Just hold it next to her, please.
Ryan: No!
Oh, god.
(hissing)
(grunting)
Ryan!
(laughing)
Lewis, damn you!
Let us out! Let us out!
Good-bye, dear friends, and thank you.
(muffled screams) I wish I could stay, really, I do,
But I have something I must attend to
Before the night is out.
It's locked.
Your car is ready.
And I have the amulet.
How long is it to sunrise, greta?
Three hours, 41 minutes.
Hey, you're wearing the wrong costume, man.
You should have brought your bear suit.
I've seen your type before.
You're peasants, aren't you?
All mouth and no action
Because you're too small where it counts.
Hey, come out here. Uh-uh.
You come on out here right now!
Come on in here and get me. Come out!
Just as I thought, the two of you,
You can't get through a simple thing like that.
Run along home to mama, boys, before you get hurt.
Get the chain, zed.
Get it now!
Micki: Let us out! Open the door!
Help!
Micki, will you knock it off?
There's nobody out there, and you're giving me a headache.
We've done a fine job.
Jack would be proud.
And as for you, you're a great judge of people.
I wouldn't exactly call uncle lewis "people."
Besides, you fell for his phony line,
"help me, please, help me."
He set us up.
He knew we'd have soft hearts.
And heads to match.
We just gave it to him.
That's not what worries me.
What I want to know is what's he gonna use it for.
We gotta get out of here.
(chuckling): How?
(engine revving)
(metal creaking)
Come on. Come on.
Hit it!
(tires squealing)
Yeah.
No brains, huh?
Well, we got one bird out of its cage.
Free as a bird, but no turkey.
Micki, I'm stuck.
Pull my leg.
Pull! This is no time to be ladylike!
(yelling)
Oh, shut up!
(whispering): Where is he?
I don't know... Shh.
He's gone, I think he's gone.
Yeah, where?
Somewhere with the amulet.
But why?
Ryan, come here; I found something!
Show me. Where?
Now, I can't read all of it...
It's about the amulet.
It's in old english.
Something about a spirit needing to take over a body.
Like coming back to life?
Uncle lewis is coming back to life?
Wait a minute, does it say how we can stop it?
No, it doesn't. I mean, it might,
I don't know, I can't read it.
Well, how much can you read?
He needs to get in...
To a body, and something about
From a peaceful death, not...
All right, all right.
That's something. That's something.
From a peaceful death, not from, uh...
Not from what? Not from, uh...
Violence! It says not from violence!
Okay, so he's got to find a body.
Where does he go to find a body?
A cemetery.
No, but the bodies are too old.
A mortuary! How about that, hmm?
Nobody around, lots of dead bodies.
That's it! It sounds perfect.
All we've got to do is find out which one he went to.
The closest one. He'd go to the closest one
And then he'd work his way out from there, right? Yeah.
Okay, okay...
Of course! Got it.
Got the car.
No good. He took the car.
(groans)
I was wondering, if you had a choice,
Would you choose to be a man or a woman?
Oh, I'll choose to be alive, greta.
Nothing else matters.
¶ ¶
Greta, greta, in here.
Trick or treat, trick or treat, trick or treat... Hey. Hi, kids.
Trick or treat, trick or treat, trick or treat... Hey, trick or treat, eh?
What is this?
There's not one calm, peaceful death here.
Two hours and 18 minutes till sunrise.
Hurry!
(car approaching)
Jack always makes this look so damn easy.
Metro hospital, died in his sleep.
Hey, hey, what's, what's going,
What are you doing? Wait-wait...
(groans)
Micki, I got it.
(door bells jingle)
Micki!
Ryan!
¶ ¶
Shh. What do we do?
Who was that with him? I don't know.
But if she's, one of him,
I don't want anything to do with her.
Oh, fine.
Listen, do you think if we can get the amulet back
That he'll go back to being a...
Ghost. Ghost.
Without the amulet, ghost?
All they can do is scare us.
Hmm. Well, listen.
Do you think you can get close to him?
I think so.
If he doesn't move,
I can go hide behind those boxes,
Maybe distract him. Okay.
What about the dwarf?
She could warn him.
Not if I get her out of there.
How can you do that? Hmm.
Look, you just worry about the amulet.
Don't do anything stupid.
Yeah, like coming here.
(sighs)
Azure body of pall,
Reach down with thy hand
And touch this foul and stinking awful,
Raise it up
And make it move. Oh, sorry.
(gasping)
(screams)
(whimpers)
Let the eyes shine
And the heart pound
And the bowels churn for thy glory.
And let this stinking flesh tremble anew with thy might,
And make the strings and the sinews...
(object clattering)
(grunts)
Whoa!
(greta hisses)
¶ ¶
Pax vobiscus.
Hear me, son of darkness,
In the name of those who bleed and die in the quiet,
Waiting for the touch of the hand of evil.
Two young guests-- I gave them a warm welcome.
(laughs sinisterly)
¶ ¶
(latch clicks)
Toth-agremmon, hear me.
Hear my voice as it calls unto thee.
I implore thy mercy on my quest.
(door creaking)
I beg thy understanding on my quest.
I bring thee sacrifices on my quest.
I offer thee
This image of thee,
So that there might be
In the world once again an adoring acolyte
To seek out and do thy bidding.
Belial, lift thy leathern wing that I may feast at thy side
And bring to this thing before me the essence of my life,
Dedicated to thee and thy pursuits,
Filling thee with joy in pursuit and conquest
In the hunt for the hearts and minds of men.
Oh, my god!
(grunting)
Micki.
Micki, what's happened to you?
Come on, come on.
Hey, snap out of it.
Micki.
Jack! Ryan (muffled): Micki!
It's all right. Jack!
All right. Help me out of here.
Ryan's in the box.
Get me out of here, please...
Jack, oh.
Come on, out, out, ryan, out.
Quickly.
We've got to hurry.
Lewis has started the spell.
And if he finishes it?
Then we're going to find ourselves
In the middle of a living nightmare.
How can we stop him, jack?
Well, we can't stop that amulet.
It's far too strong.
All we can do is slow him down.
If he hasn't completed the spell by the time it's dawn,
It'll fail.
Dawn, but that was-- what time is sunrise?
5:48.
He's got eight minutes to complete it.
What do we do?
Well, it's a long shot,
But I think that if I can slow him down enough,
If you two can distract the demon.
Demon? Yes, the midget.
She's really a demon.
I can't deal with lewis and with her.
If she's in there, well, she's got to protect him.
We'll do our best.
Come on, ryan. All right, good luck.
And the howling of winds, the voices of the damned
Lifted in eternal torment...
Hey, uncle lewis!
Hey, we're over here! You like it in hell?!
Greta, take care of them.
I've been waiting for you, jack.
Lewis, you had your time.
You've made your choice, god help you,
And now you must abide by that choice.
It wasn't fair, jack.
I didn't know.
If I had known, I wouldn't have done it.
Jack...
They say that nothing is forever,
But down there you die forever.
Down there, over and over and over.
I have no time for you.
Yes, lewis.
Pity you can't waste the time to kill me.
Listen, lewis...
No, no. ...Listen to the word.
"there was in that time
Darkness on the face of the earth..."
Stop it.
"...And all things did fear the darkness..."
Stop it, jack.
"...For in the darkness, there was no light."
Stop it or I'll blast you
Straight to hell.
(screams)
(micki shrieks, greta grunts)
Jack: "and in that time, there were demons"...
Uncle lewis: For the spirit of this one...
"...In the earth..." ...Dedicated to thee...
"...That did walk among the children of god..."
...And the body of this other who died...
"...And did make for themselves an empire..."
...Newly released, shall be as one...
(bucket clanking)
...Joined together to serve thee and thy design...
"...That the nation of demons..."
...Here in this vale...
(yelps)
...To lead thine armies against thy foe...
(greta screams)
...And bring about thy rule
Here in this vale... "...Casting them down
Into the depths of hell from whence they came."
(gasps)
(gasping)
...And thus it shall be, and thus it is.
You will be silent forever,
Jack.
And you two,
You can join him in hell
And burn for all time.
Ryan: Jack.
It's too late... The sunrise.
The sun isn't up yet. Look.
There's still
Two minutes on the clock.
The clock is stopped.
They stopped the clock, lewis.
(screaming)
I'll say this.
The man can make an exit.
All those years, and I'd never suspected this room.
All those times coming in here, hmm.
How much of that story about grace was true?
Oh, some of it.
He was married, and his wife was called grace.
She's not in there.
She never was.
She died, and she was buried,
And we all lost a great friend.
(sighs)
She was a wonderful woman, micki.
Beautiful, like... Like a sunrise.
She had the kind of beauty
That shone out of her like a beacon.
She...
What?
No, no, no, please, go on.
Just how well did you know grace?
Better than I ought to have, perhaps,
But not as much as I would have dearly wished.
(sighs quietly)
I hope somebody talks about me that way,
Someday.
All I want to do is rest and enjoy the fact
That we don't have to go through this again
Until next year.
Don't be too sure.
Two weeks from now, it'll be Friday the 13th.