Man: Dr. Barrett?
Morning. My people tell me
you're one of the best five in your field.
Your fee will be £100,000.
Your assignment-- to establish the facts.
-Regarding what? -Survival after death.
You want me--
To let me know if it's factual.
How could l convince you either way?
Give me the facts.
Where can l find these facts? l'm a physicist.
ln the 20 years l've studied parapsychology, l've yet--
lf they exist, you'll find them
in the only place l know on earth
where survival has yet to be refuted.
The Belasco house.
Hell House?
Hell House.
But l thought the Belasco family
had it sealed up after what happened.
That was 20 years ago. They need money now.
l bought the place. Can you be there by Monday?
Well, can you?
Yes.
There will be two others with you.
A medium called Florence Tanner--
Tanner? But she's a mental medium.
As l want that line of approach employed as well as yours.
But she's practically a child.
My people tell me she's the best in her field too.
And the other one?
The...the only survivor from the last attempt.
-Fischer? -Yeah, Fischer.
Between the three of you,
l expect an answer within a week.
A week?
Take it or leave it.
Well, this is a complete list of all phenomena
recorded at the Belasco house, restoration of electricity,
transportation of your equipment.
-ls that it? -No, there's a certain machine
which is only partly constructed at the moment.
How long will it take to complete?
That depends on how many electronics experts
you put on the job.
How soon will you need it?
No later than Wednesday.
Good day.
You know, l think it would be better
if you didn't come along on this trip.
But l always come with you.
l don't want to be left alone.
Besides, l want to be there when you prove your new theory.
lsn't it just another so-called haunted house?
lt's the Mt. Everest of haunted houses.
There were two attempts to investigate it.
Both were disasters. Eight people died.
Fischer was the only one who survived.
And when he crawled out, he was a mental wreck.
Man: These are the keys to the house.
Your luggage and equipment has already been installed,
the electricity's on, your rooms are ready,
and there's a full larder.
l'll call back for you at 5:00 on the 24th.
Woman: Look at the windows.
Fischer: He had them bricked up so no one could see in.
Woman 2: Or out.
lt's hideous.
We're not even inside yet, Miss Tanner.
l don't have to be.
(Lock turns)
(Light switch clicking)
Dr. Barrett: So much for the restored electricity.
They work off a generator, don't they?
Fischer: Yes.
Mrs. Barrett: My God, the smell!
The atmosphere in here...
Of this world, not of the next.
This house...
it knows we're here.
Miss Tanner?
Sorry, l'll keep my observations to myself.
Do you know where the emergency generator is?
l hope l didn't disturb you.
lt's just that l'm concerned for you
coming into this pesthole.
Yes, l understand.
l wonder if you do.
Just how wealthy was Mr. Belasco?
l believe he left millions when he died.
Died?
lf there's anything you care to tell us...
What's to tell?
The house tried to kill me. lt almost succeeded.
Now, that leads to the cellars, doesn't it, Mr. Fischer?
That's right.
What's through there?
Fischer: The chapel.
Chapel?
(Woman groaning faintly)
Sorry, l can't right now.
We understand.
Man (faintly): Welcome to my house.
l'm delighted you could come.
l'm certain you'll find your stay here most illuminating.
(Woman crying faintly)
Think of me as your unseen host and believe...
Why couldn't Miss Tanner come in?
Her system is attuned to psychic energy.
Obviously, it's very strong in here.
A church in hell. That sort of thing.
Why doesn't it affect him?
Obviously, he knows how to protect himself
better than she does.
(Flashlight clicks)
Miss Tanner?
l'm sure it's nothing.
Are you?
Miss Tanner?
Miss Tanner: l'm over here.
You shouldn't have done that, Miss Tanner.
You caused us undue alarm.
l'm very sorry. l heard a voice in here.
Man (on record): Welcome to my house.
l'm delighted you could come.
l'm certain you'll find your stay here most illuminating.
Think of me as your unseen host
and believe that during your stay here
l shall be with you in spirit.
May you find the answer that you seek.
lt is here, l promise you.
And now, auf wiedersehen.
Auf wiedersehen. Till we meet again.
The record wasn't meant for us.
What made the record go on by itself?
Belasco said he could will people
to a particular object
then move among them unobserved.
l doubt that.
Do you?
Our attention was on that a few moments ago.
How do you know he didn't walk right by us?
(Whoosh)
Well, this house certainly hasn't lived up
to its reputation so far.
lt hasn't taken our measure yet.
l think we'd be wrong in considering the house
is the haunting force.
Quite evidently, the problem is created
by multiple surviving personalities.
l take it that you still
don't believe in survival, Dr. Barrett.
lf by that you mean surviving personalities,
you're quite correct.
We will see.
lndeed we shall, Miss Tanner.
When was the house built?
l don't know. Mr. Fischer?
1919.
l get the impression that you know quite a bit about Belasco.
Would you mind sharing it with us?
(Sets cup down)
His first name was Emeric.
He was born on March the 23rd, 1879.
He was the illegitimate son of an American munitions maker.
What did he look like?
His was a frightening visage.
Like the face of a demon
that had taken on some human aspect.
-Are you quoting? -Yes, l am.
That is his second wife. She committed suicide
in this room in 1927.
How tall was he?
Uh...he was 6'5".
They called him the Roaring Giant.
What did he do to make this house so evil, Mr. Fischer?
Drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism,
bestiality, mutilation,
murder, vampirism,
necrophilia, cannibalism.
Not to mention a gamut of sexual goodies.
Shall l go on?
How did it end?
lf it had ended, we would not be here.
lt's about to end, Mr. Fischer.
(Scoffs)
What happened to Mr. Belasco?
No one knows.
When relatives of the guests
had this house broken into in 1929,
they found all of them dead from one cause or another.
Twenty-seven in all. Belasco was not among them.
lf no one objects, l'd like to try a sitting tonight.
l have no objection.
Would you care to sit in the morning, Mr. Fischer?
l'm not ready yet.
Miss Tanner: ln the spirit of love and tenderness
we've gathered here tonight to communicate with those
who walk this house in torment.
Help us to bridge the chasm of death so faithfully
that pain is transformed into joy,
sorrow into peace.
All this we ask in the name of our infinite Father. Amen.
(Whoosh)
(Breathing heavily)
This is an evil house.
A place of sickness.
Evil.
Extremes.
Limits.
Terminations and extremities.
l don't know.
lf thine eye offend thee...
Yes.
There is a young man, very young...
says he must speak.
Must speak.
(Exhales)
(Whoosh)
(Affected voice) l don't know you people.
Why are you here? lt does no good.
Nothing changes.
Nothing.
Get out or l'll hurt you.
l can't help myself.
Goddamn you, you filthy sons of bitches! Goddamn you!
l don't want to hurt you...
but l must. l must!
Get out of this house before l kill you all!
(Whooshing)
(Silence)
(Sighs)
You started manifesting physical phenomena.
But l'm not a physical medium.
You were just now.
The embryo of one, at any rate.
l don't understand.
All this time a mental medium, and now this.
The Lord certainly does move in mysterious ways.
So does this house.
Back to normal?
Those pounding noises are a bit unnerving
the first time you hear them.
Why was Miss Tanner so disturbed by that sitting?
Because she caused physical phenomena.
But if Miss Tanner is a mental medium
and Mr. Fischer is a physical medium,
then how can you be so sure
that Miss Tanner created those noises, and not Fischer?
l can't.
ln fact, l'm not at all sure about Mr. Fischer...
or Miss Tanner.
(Whoosh)
Who is it, please?
(Whoosh)
You want to speak to me?
(Whoosh)
Are you the one that warned us to get out?
(Whoosh)
Yes, it is you, isn't it?
You must give me some sign.
(Whoosh)
You're not Belasco, are you?
Such a pain would not be in Belasco.
l feel your anguish.
Who are you?
(Whoosh)
Daniel?
Daniel Belasco?
(Whooshing stops)
Very clever.
lf you're that clever,
why are you still a prisoner in this house?
(Whoosh, muffled voice)
(Silence)
Miss Tanner: Good morning.
Dr. Barrett : Good morning.
-You slept well? -Fine.
And you?
Yes, very well, indeed. Thank you.
l think l have a partial answer to the haunting, doctor.
-Do you? -Hmm.
That young man that warned us during the sitting,
he came to my room last night.
He's Belasco's son.
Yes. Daniel. Daniel Belasco.
He's very young and very frightened.
And because he's so frightened, he's very angry, very hostile.
l believe if l can convince him to move on,
a great portion of the haunting force will be eliminated.
Do so, by all means.
l'd like to suggest another sitting.
Under scientific conditions this time.
Dr. Barrett: Miss Tanner in apparent trance.
Pulse rate 85, respiration 15.
Four electric contacts maintained.
No change in temperature. Steady at 73.2 degrees.
Dynamometer reading decreased to 1-8-2-3 now.
Temperature lowering. Now at 69.6 degrees.
Pulse rate 94.5 and rising.
Temperature drop now 12.3 degrees.
Dynamometer reading reduced to 1-7-7-9.
Pressurometer negative.
Electric contacts still maintained.
Rate of breath increasing. Fifty.
Fifty-seven.
Sixty.
Rising steadily.
(Machine clicking)
lnfrared rays broken. Cameras activated.
Evidence of electromagnetic radiation commencing.
Medium's respiration, 210.
Dynamometer, 1-4-6-0.
Temperature...
Evidence of ozone in the air.
(Whoosh)
Ectoplasm forming.
Separate filaments exuding from fingertips of both hands,
uniting to form two separate strands.
Two strands moving toward each other.
Ectoplasmic stalk through net,
moving toward table.
Leave a sample in the jar, please.
Aah!
Hold it!
She's all right.
Miss Tanner coming out of trance.
Premature retraction of ectoplasm
causing brief systemic shock.
Conclusion of sitting-- 2:48 p.m.
l spoiled your sitting, didn't l?
Dr. Barrett: Not at all. l couldn't be more satisfied.
Take a look.
What is it?
A specimen of that teleplasm prepared in water.
What spiritualists refer to as ectoplasm
is derived almost entirely from the medium's body.
The remainder being a mixture from the air,
the medium's costume, fibrous remains,
food and dust particles, et cetera, et cetera.
But the bulk of it is organic, living matter.
An organic externalization of thought.
Mind reduced to matter.
You mean, she made that figure from herself?
(Whooshing)
(Silence)
(Footsteps)
l was visited by Belasco's son again this afternoon.
Were you?
Will it never end?
Will what never end?
This attitude of yours of doubt and distrust.
-Distrust? -Yes!
Why should mediums be expected to perform
only under conditions that science dictates?
We're not machines. We're human beings.
What brought this on--
l'm not a medium for the fun of it, you know.
lt's often painful, often unrewarding.
Do you think that l don't--
lt just so happens that l believe mediumship
is God's manifestation in man.
When l speak to thee, l will open thy mouth
and thou shalt say unto thee, "Thus saith the Lord."
Miss Tanner...
l'll have you know that there's nothing in the Bible--
not one single recorded phenomenon--
that did not occur today. Be it sights or sounds,
shaking of the house, coming through closed doors,
rushing winds, levitations,
automatic writing or the speaking in tongues!
Miss Tanner...
l haven't the slightest idea what this is about, but--
Ah!
(Gasps)
No!
Aah!
No!
Mr. Fischer, you must go.
What the hell are you talking about?
You know what l'm talking about. You're the physical medium.
You're obviously being used. You're not in control.
You've got to get out of here. Doctor.
Trying to get rid of us both now?
Miss Tanner: What do you mean?
Doctor, what do you mean?
l would've thought that was obvious, Miss Tanner!
What is he saying? That l'm responsible?
You're the one who should leave this house.
You're the one who's being used, not me.
Mrs. Barrett: Do we have to stay?
Dr. Barrett: Are you serious?
You know how important this is to me.
And what if you're hurt again?
-l won't be. -How do you know?
l'll see to it!
Surely you noticed how it all ended with a word from her.
How l was the only one who was attacked.
l was the one who angered her.
You mean, you think Miss Tanner was responsible for all that?
Not unassisted.
There's a lot of power in this house, Ann.
She was the one who used it though.
Directed it at me.
l made a mistake.
l accepted quiet, polite behavior toward me
at face value. Well, you can't do that!
Not with a medium.
You never know what's underneath.
(Knocking at door)
May l speak to you?
l'll only be a moment.
Are you badly hurt?
l'll manage.
l know what happened now, doctor.
lt was Belasco's son.
Well, don't you see he's trying to separate us?
We're less of a challenge to him that way.
l'll sit for you in the morning.
There'll be no further sittings.
But you can't stop them now.
l'm doing so.
You don't think it was me who did all that, do you?
l not only think it, l know it!
Now, please, l'm in considerable pain.
Doctor, l am not responsible. lt was Belasco's son!
Miss Tanner!
There is no such person.
You're wrong.
Lionel?
(Sighs)
(Woman moaning, faintly)
Lionel.
Lionel!
(Moaning stops)
Where are you going now?
To look for something.
Proof that Belasco's son existed?
l'm sorry if l insulted you before.
Mrs. Barrett. Mrs. Barrett!
You...
me...
that girl...
Lionel...
all together.
Naked.
Drunk.
Clutching.
Sweating.
Biting!
Aah!
You...
You were walking in your sleep.
Mrs. Barrett!
(Faint whooshing)
(Muffled cries)
(Crying continues)
(Silence)
Daniel, l've found you.
(Rattling)
Aah! Aah!
(Miss Tanner screaming)
What is it? What happened?
Daniel Belasco, l found him.
Well, l'm not imagining it.
He attacked me.
Did l imagine this?
He's in there, behind the wall.
Miss Tanner: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Oh Lord, we beseech thee mercifully
to receive the prayers of thy people
which call upon thee...
(Continues indistinctly)
Man (faintly): Florence.
ls that you?
Man: Help me, Florence. Help me.
Why?
You should have gone on.
Man: You are my only hope.
Your body was buried. l prayed for you.
Man: Please.
No. You have to go.
You've been given your release.
Man: You are my only hope.
-You must go on. -Florence...
What is it you want?
-Man: Make love to me. -No.
No, l can't.
Man: Florence.
No, l can't.
No!
(Door creaks)
(Hisses)
What in the name of God?
-Aah! -(Cat screeches)
(Screeching continues)
-(Screeches) -Aah!
(Hisses)
Aah!
(Screeches)
(Screaming, screeching)
(Cat screeches, thud)
Man (faintly): Florence. Please.
(Engine starts)
Doctor, Miss Tanner's been hurt again.
Where is she?
She's in her room.
She's been bitten. She's been scratched.
How did it happen?
l don't know. A cat, l think.
A cat?
lt was possessed by Daniel Belasco.
Would you like me to examine you?
Use this. lt'll prevent infection.
l'm all right. l know you think--
lt doesn't matter what l think.
What matters is your being mauled.
l said l'm all right.
l wonder if that is so.
Wouldn't it be advisable for you to leave?
No, l'm not leaving now!
lt's up to you of course.
But l think l'd be failing in my duty
if l didn't warn you to leave.
l don't want you to be another victim of Hell House.
He's right, you know. You should leave.
Ben.
You are being torn to pieces.
You don't think l'm doing this to myself, do you?
Oh, no, of course l don't.
l don't know who is doing it either.
You say it's Daniel Belasco, but what if you're wrong?
What if you're being fooled?
Fooled?
But Daniel Belasco does exist. We found his body.
We also laid him to rest. So why is he not at rest?
l think l know, Ben.
Controlled multiple haunting,
something absolutely unique in haunted houses.
A surviving will so powerful that he can use that power
to dominate all other surviving sou¤es.
You mean Emeric Belasco?
He's the one that's kept me from the chapel.
He's the one that made it seem as if Daniel possessed the cat.
He caused the poltergeist attack against Dr. Barrett.
He's also the one that's keeping Daniel's soul imprisoned here.
He's like a general with his army.
Never entering the battle but always controlling it.
Just what have you been doing, Mr. Fischer?
Hmm?
Have you been drinking?
l don't think that's any of your business.
Although l do think it's a very good idea.
Come on.
No. You come on.
Mrs. Barrett?
Yes, Ben?
You should not leave your husband alone.
Oh, l think he's all right. He's sleeping.
Mrs. Barrett, you must go back upstairs.
Did you know this was where it all happened?
Where all what happened?
All that debauchery...
and vice.
Right here.
Right around this very table.
Mrs. Barrett, you don't know what you're saying.
Oh, yes, l do.
l know exactly what l'm saying,
Mr. Fischer.
Mr. B.F. Fischer.
Mrs. Barrett, it's this house. lt's making you--
This house isn't doing anything.
l'm doing it.
Touch me.
Touch me, or l'll find somebody who will!
No! No!
(Groaning)
l know you won't forgive me... now. l...
l know what l did. l'd give anything to undo it.
l just don't know why l went down those stairs.
l knew what l was doing--
l--l knew.
But at the same time, l--
l'm not asking you to forgive me,
but please, please don't hate me.
l need you. l love you.
l just don't understand what's happening to me.
l just don't understand.
lt's all right.
lt'll pass after we've left this house.
l love you too.
(Mrs. Barrett sobbing)
Doctor, l think your wife is in grave danger.
-What happened here-- -Mr. Fischer.
-lt was not her fault. -Please, Mr. Fischer.
Doctor, this is a matter of life and death.
What you saw here today is not the first occurrence.
Did you know that she walked down here last night?
When?
Near midnight.
You were asleep. So was she.
She walked in her sleep?
Yes.
You should've told me.
No, doctor, she should have. The fact that she didn't--
Doctor, l don't think you know what is going on in this house.
What l think is irrelevant to this conversation--
lrrelevant? What the hell do you mean by irrelevant?
Whatever it is that's getting at your wife
has already gotten to Miss Tanner and to you.
Or perhaps you haven't noticed.
l've noticed quite a number of things, Mr. Fischer.
One of which is that you're blocking
yourself off completely.
And another things is Mr. Deutsch is obviously
wasting a third of his money.
(Sighs)
Dr. Barrett: One of which is that you're blocking
yourself off completely.
Blocking yourself off completely.
(Thinking) l am not blocking anything.
l'm just not sticking my neck out the way l did in 1953.
(Screaming)
(Gagging)
(Knocking at door)
-Ben, l've been thinking-- -Give up.
Give up?
What's happened?
l thought we trusted each other.
l don't trust anyone...
or anything.
And anyone who does in this house is a fool.
Something has happened.
Lots of things.
Nothing we can't handle.
Wrong.
There is nothing in this house that we can handle.
That's not true. We've made wonderful progress.
Toward what?
Our graves?
Well, Daniel, for instance, and the way that Belasco works.
Daniel!
Daniel, Daniel, Daniel! Heh.
Daniel! How do you know he ever even existed?
The body, Ben.
ls that your proof?
How do you know you haven't been deluding yourself?
How do you know he isn't just a figment of your imagination?
How do you know his personality
isn't exactly what you made of it?
-How do you know? -l just know l'm right!
Yes, and we all knew we were right in 1953 too.
Heh-heh.
Grace Lauter, a successful medium for...
for 20 years.
She jumped off the balcony...
and she shattered both her legs.
Dr. Graham...
physicist.
He crawled out of this house to die.
Professor Rand...
head of the chemistry department at the University of Oxford.
Paralyzed.
Professor Fenley...
a psychic investigator.
Crippled and insane to this day.
Yes, eh...
you're right.
l am obstructing.
You're quite right.
l'm shut off.
l'm going to stay shut off
until l am far away from this place.
l am going to collect my 100,000,
and l am never going to come within 1,000 miles of this house
for as long as l live.
And l suggest you do the same.
Ben.
(Liquid gushing)
(Gasps)
(Screams)
ls there anything l can do to help?
l'm afraid not. lt's just too complicated.
Thanks all the same.
What's it going to do, Lionel?
You've heard me talk about the power in this house.
lt's a real power, Ann.
A field of measurable energy.
Energy that can be reversed.
And that's exactly what l'm going to do.
By this time tomorrow,
Hell House will be drained. De-energized.
You'll see.
(Clapping)
That pile ofjunk you have there, Barrett,
it isn't gonna do a thing.
Get her out of here. Get out yourself.
You haven't got a chance.
Have you?
Yes.
Yes, l know the score. You do not fight this house!
Look, Hell House doesn't mind a guest or two.
What it doesn't like is people who attack it.
Belasco doesn't like it. His people--they don't like it.
And they will fight back, and they kill you.
So you listen to me.
You just leave that damn machine alone
and you spend the rest of the week resting, doing nothing.
When Sunday comes, you tell Deutsch
anything he wants to hear and bank the money.
lf you try anything else,
you will be a dead man with a dead wife at your side.
He won't listen, will he?
l was the only one
to make it out of here alive and sane in 1953.
And l will be the only one to make it out of here
alive and sane this time.
He's wrong.
l told you before,
Florence Tanner is wrong in what she believes.
l'm telling you now that Fischer is equally wrong.
Tomorrow it will be proved.
(Whooshing)
Man (faintly): Help me.
Please.
Please, help me.
(Ghoulish screaming)
Man (echoing): Help me, Florence. Help me.
(Overlapping voices)
You're my only hope.
(Overlapping voices continue)
(Whoosh)
Daniel, you must understand.
What you ask is impossible. l can't.
l believe in you. l've opened my heart to you.
(Voice muttering)
Man: Florence,
love me.
No. No!
Man: Help me, Florence.
Help me.
Dear God,
reach down your hand and give me your protection.
Help me this night to bring to you
the tortured soul of Daniel Belasco.
l give you now the love you've never known.
l give it freely so that you'll gain
the strength to go on from this house.
Man: l love you.
And l love you.
With love. Please, with love.
(Gasps)
Man: Florence...
Aah!
(Giggles)
Florence.
How long have you been here?
All night.
There?
Stupid.
You could've slept with me.
Who put on my nightdress?
Mrs. Barrett.
Why didn't you do it?
My God, he's inside me!
He lied to me. He said it was the only way.
But he's inside me!
Even as l'm speaking to you
l--l can feel him just waiting in there to take over!
lt's going to be all right.
l'm going to take you out of here this morning.
No, he won't let me go.
He can't stop you.
-Yes, he can. -Well, he can't stop me.
(Affected voice) Who the hell do you think you are, you bastard?
You might've been hot stuff when you were 15,
but now you're shit. Hear me? Shit!
Dear God, help me.
(Sobbing)
l'm taking her away.
-How are you, Miss Tanner? -l'm all right.
You needn't come back if you don't want to, Mr. Fischer.
For this afternoon the house will be clear.
Clear? How?
There isn't time for explanation.
Yes, there is. l'm not leaving until l know.
Florence.
l am not leaving until l know!
Right.
The body emits a form of energy invisible to the human eye.
This energy can be expanded
far beyond the confines of the body,
where it can create mechanical, chemical, physical effects.
Sounds, the movement of objects and the like
such as we've experienced. Now the energy l talk about
is a field of electromagnetic radiation.
-EMR. -Exactly.
All living organisms emit this energy.
Such power must saturate its environment.
ls it any wonder then that Hell House is the way it is?
Consider the destructive mental and physical residual energy
which has been poured into its interior.
ln essence, the house is a giant battery
the residual energy of which must inevitably be tapped
-by those who enter it. -But can't you see
this energy is what we survive with after death?
No, Miss Tanner, the residue l speak of
has nothing to do with surviving personalities.
The spirit of Emeric Belasco does not prowl this house.
Neither does his son or any of the other entities
that you believe yourself to be in contact with.
No.
There is one thing and one thing only in this house--
mindless, directionless power.
You're wrong, Dr. Barrett. You're so wrong.
You cannot destroy a spirit.
All you will do is send it from one hell to another.
No, Miss Tanner.
l'm right.
This afternoon, my machine will fill the house
with a massive countercharge of electromagnetic radiation
which will oppose the polarity of the atmosphere,
reverse, and dissipate it.
And Hell House will be exorcized.
l see.
Well, there's nothing else to do then, is there?
Barrett.
(Metal clatters)
Aah!
Dr. Barrett: Thank God she didn't know what to smash.
l should be flattered, really.
Her attack on the reverser was her ultimate tribute to it.
She knows l'm right. There was nothing else to do.
That's what she said.
She had to destroy my beliefs before they could destroy hers.
(Footsteps)
Daniel?
(Whoosh, whir)
(Faint sobbing)
(Ghoulish screaming, wailing)
Man: Florence.
Daniel, you must leave before it's too late.
Soon you'll be sent from this hell to another.
(Rattle, creaking)
Aah!
Where is Miss Tanner?
She was lying over there a few minutes ago.
Why didn't you watch her?
(Groaning)
(Whoosh)
You tricked me.
God help me, you tricked us all.
(Ghoulish laughter)
(Grunting)
(Gasps)
Quickly.
(Machine whirring)
(Whirring grows louder)
(Ghoulish wailing)
(Silence)
You'll have to open yourself to it, Mr. Fischer.
Try, Mr. Fischer.
l guarantee there'll be no trouble.
Well?
He's startled because there's nothing to pick up.
ls it really over, Lionel?
Yes, it's over.
Done with. Finished.
Miss Barrett: l can't believe it.
l know.
Do you mind if l say l told you so?
What a pity Miss Tanner had to die
when the answer was so close.
Fischer: Barrett.
Barrett, the house is clear! lt is completely clear!
And l called that machine a pile ofjunk!
Jesus God, a pile ofjunk.
You better go and get some rest.
l want to check my readings. l didn't have a chance before.
(Clicking)
(Beeping)
(Rattling)
(Beeping continues)
This is impossible.
l don't accept this.
l do not accept this!
Lionel?
Dr. Barrett (faintly): ln here.
Lionel?
Dr. Barrett: Here.
Aah!
(Whooshing)
Mr. Fischer: l'm sorry.
Lionel...
Please get me out of here. Please.
l'm not leaving.
l'm going back to the chapel.
No. No, you can't.
You don't know what it's like in there.
l have to.
No, you don't.
There's no reason to go back there.
None.
Ann, listen.
l have to.
lt's for Florence. lt's for your husband.
lf l leave Hell House now
my whole life is going to be a failure.
You can't solve it.
lt cannot be solved.
You're gonna die...
like Lionel...
like Miss Tanner.
Then l will.
Mr. Fischer: lt's here.
The entire house is clear except for this one place.
But why?
Why?
Belasco.
(Exhales)
That's what the B inside the circle means.
She was trying to tell us
that it was only Belasco all along.
lt isn't mindless, directionless power.
lt isn't multiple hauntings.
lt's only one.
One entity pretending to be Daniel.
One entity pretending to be many others.
That's where the answer lies!
But what's the key?
What is the key?
Miss Tanner: Extremes and limits.
Terminations and extremities.
Oh, God.
Of course, that's what she meant.
Extremes.
Limits.
Legs!
Grace Lauter's spine and legs shattered.
Dr. Graham, crawling.
Professor Rand, paralyzed.
Professor Fenley, crippled.
Florence's legs, crushed.
Your husband's--
Miss Tanner: lf thine eye offend thee...
Oh, yes, yes, yes!
Belasco!
Whatever you do do not interfere.
Belasco.
Here l am.
Destroy me if you can!
Don't leave the job half done!
We're here!
l'm here!
Kill me!
(Metal rattling)
No!
That's it.
Oh!
That's it.
Tell me something, Belasco.
Why didn't you ever leave this house when you were alive?
Why, did you despise the sunlight?
Was it better hiding in the shadows?
(Panting)
No one--
no one could really see you then, could they?
No one could find out
your secret then, could they?
You weren't a genius!
You were a deviant!
A sawed-off little ba...stard!
(Whooshing)
Your mother was a bitch!
A whore!
You were a bastard!
(Snap)
A funny, little dried-up bastard!
You're no genius!
You're no roaring giant!
(Snap)
What size were you, Belasco?
Five foot two?
One?
l know!
You weren't even five foot tall!
(Man screams)
Emeric Belasco.
The roaring giant.
ls it clear?
(Grunting)
Ah.
(Gasps)
This is a special moment.
Meet Emeric Belasco.
No, your husband really did have part of the answer.
And Florence had part of it too.
And with her help l finally found the last part,
that which Belasco's giant ego could not face.
(Gasps)
He so despised his own shortness
that he had both his legs cut off
and wore those instead to give himself height.
lf thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.
Maybe he was a genius after all.
Just because a man decides to preserve his body after death
doesn't make him a genius.
lt's not his body of which l'm speaking.
This is why your husband's machine
could not destroy his power.
These walls are sheathed with lead.
He built himself a fortress to protect his spirit.
He knew what was coming years before it came.
(Whirring)
Your husband and Florence helped us to rid this house of Belasco.
Let us hope that their spirits guide him to everlasting peace.
(Whirring continues)
Miss Tanner (whispering): Belasco.