Did anyone else get the feeling that Frank molested Kirsty? My evidence:
1.Him lewdly telling her to "come to Daddy" in this and Hellbound.
2. Kirsty's reluctance to move into Frank's house.
3. When she encounters the undead Frank in the film, she doesn't merely seem disgusted by his appearance but by the fact that he is there at all.
4. Frank's libertine sexuality.
5. Frank's state of being a violent psychopath.
Kirsty's reluctance to move in is due to her chilly relationship with Julia. It isn't really Frank's house per se, but rather Frank and Larry's childhood home which they inherited that Frank may have occasionally used as a hideout. He didn't even have an actual bed and the house seemed to still be full of his parents' things(the Christian decorations which I really doubt he put there himself).
shareGood points, but did you get the impression of sexual abuse?
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I guess it's not out of the question but I'd never considered it until I saw the theory online. It's possible Frank only found Kirsty attractive as a young adult, and "come to daddy" is his usual pickup line with the ladies.
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One thing that slipped my mind that I noticed after rewatching recently is Frank seems a little excited when he says her name after overhearing Larry telling Julia that she called because she had a bad dream. So maybe his attraction to her isn't new after all.
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Yes, he does, actually. When Larry tells Julia that it was Kirsty on the phone and that she had a nightmare, slimy skinless Frank is on the stairway above and utters "Kirstyyy" as though remembering. The implication could be there, even if it is just his fantasy about her and not that he had actually molested her.
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The "come to daddy" line has always been creepy and given off the molester vibe. But really, I don't think anything else here really hints at past sexual abuse. Though a creepy line, he says "come to daddy" because he is wearing her father's skin. Still icky, though. Everything else is just as the other user said, that Kirstie didn't get along with Julia. As for her disgust about Frank, it really is to do with the fact that he is a skinless monster and that she has probably heard a lot of bad stories about him. But, I will say that family relations wouldn't stop Frank from screwing Kristie. He is a sex-addict and he certainly noticed that little Kirstie is now a beautiful young woman. Again, icky!
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"Come to Daddy" when flirting is wrong on soooooooo many levels.
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Frank Cotton not only molested Kirsty but countless others as well. He was a deviant extraordinaire. He wanted to experience every sick and twisted sexual perversion imaginable - and the Cenobites gladly accommodated him in his quest.
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No, actually I think you are right about the dream. I never considered that aspect before in regards to Frank and Kirstie's past.
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I always thought that was her father. After all, the dream is what made her worry about him and call him in the middle of the night. Still, I think you are on to something with the strange sound of a crying baby in that dream.
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That is what I always thought. Like dreams in real life, it is certainly open to interpretation.
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Clive Barker told Ashley that Frank wants to have sex with his niece so there was always meant to be an incest thing
shareOf course, in the movie, it's clear that in the present, Frank wants to have sex with her, but the question is was he actually interested in her when she was younger? Clive's quote doesn't really clear that up(IMO).
shareDoes anyone else laugh when they hear the line "Come to daddy", especially when they slow it down. Yeah it's gross but it's kind of funny too.
I gotta go feed that thing in Room 33.
Any time they slow dialogue down, I laugh. Why? Because it reminds me of the old Inspector Clouseau movies, one in particular where the Inspector is fighting his manservant Cato Fong at home and they do the whole slow-motion thing as Clouseau is about to crash into a wall.
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I'm fairly certain that when Kirsty first realizes that it's Uncle Frank wearing her father's skin he says, "Remember? Come to daddy." Why would he say "remember" if not to reinforce a sexual history (forced, obviously). There's no doubt in my mind that Frank molested her as a child.
shareI don't think so. Frank comments that she's grown up to be beautiful. That seems to imply that he didn't think of her as being beautiful when she was a kid. Just because he's a sex fiend doesn't mean he's a pedophile and there's no indication that he was. All of the women he had sex with were adult.
shareNah, I don't think so. I think she's an early 20's girl, starting to be independent. So she doesn't wanna be with parental supervision. I think everybody's got relatives they could care less about, doesn't need to be based on abuse. Certain people you juts don't like/trust.
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