Bobby Henkel(Sorority House Massacre)

## Poster

**Bobby Henkel** is the main slasher villain from the 1986 American slasher film, Sorority House Massacre.

He is portrayed by **John C. Russell**.

## Personality

Bobby Henkel is a silent man who hardly utters a word. He becomes determined to kill any victim he sets out to get and will remain focus no matter what while also shown to be delusional as he can see any female as his deceased sisters. He can also get aggressive when he starts killing again.

## Background

Robert “Bobby” Henkel was apart of a family of seven, where he was the seventh family member and had four sisters. One night, however, Bobby heard a terrible sound that he felt he couldn’t silence in any other way, so he took a pickaxe and used it to kill his Mom and Dad as they were watching tv in the living room. He then takes his father’s hunting knife off the fireplace’s mantle and went to each of his sister’s rooms, killing the rest of them except for his 5 year-old sister, Laura 'Beth' Henkel, who manages to hide in the basement. Bobby tries to get her in the basement where he only manages to cut her upper arm with the knife.

He was soon caught by the police and taken to court, where they deemed him a sick man. He was then picked up by Dr. Karen Lindsey and was taken to the Peligro Valley State Mental Hospital. Beth is then taken in by her Aunt Jarvis who raises her like a mother.

## Biography

13 or 14 years later, Bobby still remains at the Peligro Valley State Mental Hospital where he’s being studied by Dr. Karen Lindsey as he’s been walking around half-awake half-asleep throughout his time in the asylum and has never spoken a word.

One night, however, after Beth’s Aunt died, she enters into a sorority house, unaware that it’s her own childhood house where the murder took place that was bought by the sorority. Meanwhile, at the Mental Hospital during night, as Bobby is sleeping in his room, he suddenly dreams of Beth entering their old house and realizes she’s back in their old house, causing him to start screaming and freaking out for the first time in a long time. Upon hearing him, two orderlies arrive where they cuff him up and tape his mouth shut for the night until tomorrow morning when Dr. Lindsey arrives.

The next morning, Bobby manages to break free form his restraints and pulls the tape off his mouth. He then begins trying to break out of the room just as Dr. Lindsey and one of the orderlies check up on him. After the orderly manages to settle Bobby down, Dr. Lindsey brings in a brain scanner to read his thoughts to find out what set him off last night. As Dr. Lindsey asks him some questions, she and the orderly find out that he had a dream of a person, to which he spokes out “Laura”, after a long time of silence.

At the same time, Beth starts to remember what happened that night in the house and Bobby can sense her remembering, causing him to freak out again and pass out. Once Bobby is back on his bed, the orderly and Dr. Lindsey start to head out just as Bobby wakes up.

Later, one of the orderlies comes into Bobby’s room after unlocking the door to give him his food. Just as the orderly places the tray on the table, Bobby ambushes him and repeatedly slams the back of orderly’s head against the wall, killing him. Bobby then walks out through the unlocked door and runs out of the building before climbing over the gate, escaping the Mental Hospital.

After escaping, Bobby enters into a hardware store where he breaks through one of the glass displays to steal a hunting knife. The Shop Owner spots him and is about to confront him, only to get stabbed by Bobby with the hunting knife. Bobby then steals a woman’s car at a gas station and makes his way to Beth.

Late at night, Bobby finally arrives at the house where Beth and her friends were having a little party. During the time Bobby arrives outside of the house, Beth remembers the hunting knife being hidden in the fireplace, so her friends remove the brick and find it. One of them, Tracy, believes it to be an act, however, and throws the hunting knife in the ashes of the fireplace.

Beth’s friends try to perform hypnosis on her to understand what she’s going through where one of them, Andy, heads out to go to his job. However, he finds Bobby outside and asks who he is before Bobby stabs him two times with the knife.

Later, Tracy and her boyfriend, Craig, head into a teepee they set up in the backyard where they start to have sex. Bobby sees them entering teepee were he thinks Tracy is one of his sisters, Susan. Bobby starts ripping the teepee open, frightening Tracy and Craig, and he breaks in where he manages to kill Tracy. Craig heads back inside the house to warn the Linda and Sara and to call the police, only for Bobby to cut the line with his knife.

Bobby then heads inside the house through the front door where reclaims his father’s hunting knife from the fireplace and places the knife he had on the mantle. He then finds Beth sleeping on the couch with John. Beth was able to wake up in time as Bobby walks up to them and is about to stab her. She manages to roll out of the way, but John ends up getting stabbed in the back instead.

Bobby chases after Beth upstairs where she manages to hide in a room with Linda, Sara, and Craig. Bobby tries to break down the door until he stops and leaves the door. The four try to escape through the window with an emergency fire ladder. Craig gets down first and holds it steady for Linda as she climbs down next. However, Bobby grabs Craig from behind and stabs him in the back. Bobby then climbs up the ladder after Linda as she tries to climb back up to the window while Bobby tries to grab her. She manages to make back into the door and Beth and Sara push the fire ladder out. Unfortunately, Bobby grabs onto the window sill so Linda closes the window down on his hands. Bobby still manages to hang on, so the three hit his hands move his fingers off, letting him fall down to the ground.

Thinking he’s dead, the girls decide to head out front where they discover Andy, dying from his stab wound, entering through the door and falling dead on the floor. After they see Bobby is still alive, they go back to their rooms where Beth regains another memory of hers. Bobby crashes into the room through the window and when Beth gets a good look at him, she realizes who he is.

The girls head back down and exit the house to the backyard. They then head to the backyard’s exit to the front, but they find Bobby walking towards them. As they back away, Bobby starts seeing Sara as another one of his sisters, Janet. The girls start to run off, but Sara trips over Tracy’s body and falls on the ground, allowing Bobby to kill her with his knife.

Linda and Beth try the front door again only to find it locked, so they have no choice but to head down to the basement to hide. Once they’re in the basement, the two hide where they hear police sirens outside. Beth realizes that she’s Bobby’s last surviving sister and that the two are somehow psychically connected, explaining how he knew she’d be back in the house and how she knew he would be coming for her.

Remembering a spare key was in the basement, Linda manages to grab it and the two arm themselves with a shovel and a hoe as Bobby makes his way down the basement. Bobby finds the girls and manages to cut Beth with his knife, but Linda knocks him down with the shovel and the two head back up the stairs. Bobby chases after them again but the two girls close the door on him, where he begins stabbing through it. They wait until the stabs the door the second time and the two head to the front door as Bobby struggles to pull the knife back out.

Bobby finally comes out of the basement and sees Linda as his third sister, Cathy. He sets his focus on Beth and walks towards her as she backs away into the living room. She tries to hit him with her hoe but he grabs it and takes it away from her. Linda tries to smack him several times with the shovel, knocking down the stuff on the mantle in the process, but he ignores her and continues on focusing on Beth. Once getting her into a corner, Bobby pins her to the wall and is about to stab her with the hunting knife. Fortunately, Linda successfully knocks him down by hitting the back of his head with the shovel.

Thinking he’s dead, the two start to head out until Bobby gets back up and stabs Linda in the back with the knife before collapsing back down to the ground. As Linda slowly dies, Bobby crawls his way to Beth and grabs her leg as she was about to run away. Bobby grabs his hunting knife out of Linda’s back as Beth tries to get to the knife Bobby stole from the hardware store after it was knocked down on to the floor when Linda knocked the stuff on the mantle down. As the two struggle with each other, Bobby calls her “Laura” to which Beth responds, “I’m not Laura anymore, you son of a bitch.”, as she reaches for the stolen knife and uses it to impale Bobby’s throat from the back of his neck, finally killing him.

After the police arrive, Beth is taken to a hospital where her wounds are bandaged up. However, she has another nightmare where Bobby, all bloody, opens the privacy curtains and calls her “Beth” while looking at her, to which she wakes up and screams, only to find it wasn’t real.

## Murder Objects

### Handheld Weapons

* Pickaxe
* Hunting Knife
* Stolen Hunting Knife

## Kills

* **Mother**: Stabbed in the chest with a pickaxe.(Off-screen)
* **Father**: Stabbed in the chest with a pickaxe.
* **Susan**: Stabbed three times in the chest with a knife.(Mentioned Only)
* **Janet**: Stabbed three times in the chest with a knife.(Mentioned Only)
* **Cathy**: Stabbed two times in the chest with a knife.(Mentioned Only)
* **Hospital Orderly**: Back of the head repeatedly slammed against a wall.
* **Shop Owner**: Stabbed in the stomach with a hunting knife.
* **Andy**: Impaled two times in the stomach with a hunting knife
* **Tracy**: Stabbed in the back of the right shoulder and later in the chest with a hunting knife.
* **John**: Stabbed in the back with a hunting knife.
* **Craig**: Stabbed in the back with a hunting knife.
* **Sara**: Stabbed three times in the chest with a hunting knife.
* **Linda**: Stabbed in the back with a hunting knife.