Hellbound: Hellraiser II Page #15

KIRSTY steps back and glances at the dresser. Blood is flowing

from every frame, pooling on the dresser and overflowing onto the

floor.

By now, the discordant elements in the birdsong are very much

predominant and, as KIRSTY sweeps all the frames off the dresser

and onto the floor with a scream of anguish, the birdsong gives

way completely to a hideous, dissonant shrieking.

KIRSTY throws her hands to her ears.

KIRSTY:

Nooooo!

She rushes at one of the walls and begins beating it with her

fists.

The walls are soft and pulpy and give slightly as her fists

strike, like flabby flesh. KIRSTY stands back in disgust.

The wall visibly bruises before her eyes, swelling and purpling.

The light in the room, like the birdsong, has changed utterly. It

is not dark, but simply dull, featureless, and depressing.

KIRSTY turns away in disgust and finds that the whole room has

given in to decay. The sofas and chairs are mildewed and rotten,

the wooden furniture is ridden with woodworm and rot. A skinned rat

runs across the room beside the buckled and chipped skirting board.

A rotten leg gives way under a small chest and the bottom drawer

spills out, freeing a whole family of quite large spiders which

run wildly across the floor.

Suddenly the room begins to fill with smoke, churned up by an

ever-increasing intensity of wind. The smoke obscures the screen.

84 INT. BARE CHAMBER HELL

The smoke and wind subside but not entirely.

KIRSTY is standing in exactly the same position in a room of

exactly the same proportions, but which is completely empty and

which has walls of the same gray stone that the corridors do.

Suddenly, rising up from behind KIRSTY, comes PINHEAD.

PINHEAD:

Ah, Kirsty. And we thought

we'd lost you.

KIRSTY swings round in terror. As the mist continues to clear,

she sees, advancing to join PINHEAD, the FEMALE CENOBITE and the

CHATTERER. Beyond them, it is now revealed, that this chamber has

no fourth wall; it gives directly onto the corridors

FEMALE CENOBITE:

So sweet of you to come back.

KIRSTY begins to work furiously at the BOX she has brought from

MALAHIDE's house. It sent them away at the end of HELLRAISER.

She obviously hopes it will work again.

PINHEAD raises a hand and the box simply flies out of KIRSTY's

hands and hovers in the air between them. KIRSTY stares, open-

mouthed.

PINHEAD:

How can it send us back, child?

We're already here. And so are you.

Suddenly PINHEAD works at the box himself - by remote control and

with dazzling skill.

He turns the box rapidly through positions KIRSTY and we have

never seen before - even opening it out at one stage into a

large, two-dimensional square. Finally, it closes itself down -

but in a wholly new shape; a white, multi-faceted, diamond shape

- and drops back into KIRSTY's hands.

He stares at KIRSTY and makes a small gesture with his brow. It

is ALMOST cute. If anything, it resembles the cocky, aren't-I-

clever look STEVE gave KIRSTY after swallowing the cigarette in

HELLRAISER. Then his face assumes its normal deadly blankness.

KIRSTY shakes her head dumbly and begins to back into a corner,

hoping that if they converge on her, she might just be able to

slip around them and get back to the labyrinth.

KIRSTY:

No! You... You can't! It wasn't

me...I didn't do it! I didn't

open the box!

FEMALE CENOBITE:

Didn't open the box. And what was it

last time? Didn't know what the box

was. And yet we DO keep finding each

other, don't we?

PINHEAD:

Oh, Kirsty; so eager to play, so

reluctant to admit it.

FEMALE CENOBITE:

Perhaps you're teasing us. Are

you teasing us?

To some extent, KIRSTY's ploy is working. The CENOBITES are

moving closer together as they advance to the corner in which she

stands.

KIRSTY:

But I didn't open it! I didn't!

PINHEAD:

Then why are you here?

KIRSTY:

I've come for my father!

KIRSTY shouts this with brave defiance. PINHEAD laughs in

response, a very unattractive sound.

PINHEAD:

But he's in his own Hell, child

And quite unreachable.

Suddenly KIRSTY makes her break shouting out as she does so.

KIRSTY:

I don't believe you!

It seems for a moment she has succeeded. She swings around the

side of the CENOBITES and begins to run across the chamber.

The CENOBITES do not move but suddenly, from nowhere a hook flies

across the room, attached to a metal chain. The hook buries

itself in the wall only inches in front of KIRSTY's face, the

chain pulled tight and barring her path. The wall begins to

bleed.

KIRSTY screams.

The CENOBITES turn to face her, but make no attempt to cross the

room to her new position.

PINHEAD:

But it's true, He is his own Hell.

Just as you are in yours.

KIRSTY:

And what about you?

PINHEAD almost smiles at the naivete of the question.

PINHEAD:

It's different for us.

FEMALE CENOBITE:

We've always been here.

PINHEAD:

We have no more surprises.

Suddenly, as quickly as it came, the hook withdraws from the wall

and flies back into nothingness.

PINHEAD puts out his hand in an expansive gesture.

PINHEAD:

But, please; feel free.

Explore. We'll always

be here...

85 INT. CORRIDOR

KIRSTY can't quite believe this but she has no intention of

questioning it. She runs into the corridor and away, with

PINHEAD's last words echoing after her.

PINHEAD:

... we have Eternity to

know your flesh!

Delighted CENOBITE laughter follows her back into the labyrinth.

KIRSTY drops the transformed BOX into her pocket as she

begins running through the corridors again. The labyrinth

seems tighter now - the corridors shorter, the turns sharper.

Corner after corner we see KIRSTY turn.

Accompanying this tightening, the light in the corridors becomes

gradually murkier - not quite dark, more like the oppressive

colourlessness that descends before a thunderstorm breaks.

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