The Horned King Quotes in The Black Cauldron (1985)

The Horned King: I presume, my boy, you are the keeper of this oracular pig.

[approaching Taran with fury]

The Horned King: You've interfered for the last time!

Creeper: Ha ha! Go for his throat, sire!

The Horned King: [shouting] NOW, PIG KEEPER, YOU SHALL DIE!

The Horned King: My, what a brave, handsome group. A pig keeper, a scullery maid, and a broken-down minstrel. Perhaps it would interest you to see what fate has in store for you.

The Horned King: Oh, my soldiers... Soon the Black Cauldron will be mine. Its evil power will course through my veins, and I shall make you Cauldron Born... Yes, yes, oh yes! Then you will worship ME! Me... Oh, my soldiers... How long I have thirsted to be a god among mortal men...

[as the army of the dead collapses]

The Horned King: This had better not be your fault!

[grabs Creeper by the neck]

Creeper: Perhaps it just needs another body, Sire.

The Horned King: Yes. *Yours*!

[as he activates the Black Cauldron]

The Horned King: Now I call on my Army of the Dead; the Cauldron-born! Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!

Creeper: I did it, sire! I captured the boy.

The Horned King: But you let the pig get away, didn't you?

Creeper: I-It wasn't my fault.

[Horned King strangles Creeper]

The Horned King: Throw the boy in the dungeon!

The Horned King: You bring news of the pig?

Creeper: N-n-not exactly, sire. It's the pig keeper. He-he-he's... escaped.

[the Horned King summons Creeper forward]

Creeper: Oh, no! Allow me, sire.

[Strangles himself]

Creeper: Isn't that enough, sire?

The Horned King: [as he is being sucked into the Black Cauldron] No! You'll not have me! My power cannot die! Curse you!