Ah, Movie lines. There are certain movies where only one line of dialog is needed in order to know what movie it is from. Other movies seem to have a line or two that stick with you and are hard to forget. As kids, my sister and I would recite dialog from certain horror films and our friends would look at us like we had 4 heads. Were we the only kids to act out the "baseball bat' scene between Wendy and Jack Torrance in THE SHINING? "Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in." You know, come to think of it, we probably were.
As we grew older it only got worse. After seeing PET SEMATARY my sister would walk around reciting Jud Crandall's line, "Sometimes, dead is better". Only she would take it into another direction, taking the Maine dialect a step further and sounding like the Pepperidge Farm guy. "Sometimes, dead is better...Pepperidge Farm remembers!" After seeing SILENCE OF THE LAMBS we mastered James 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb's famous line, "Oh wait, was she a great big fat person?” We still to this day, for no real reason and no provocation, bust out the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS dialog. Oh, imagine us at the next family reunion. What fun we'll have:
Hannibal Lecter: Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say?
Clarice Starling: He said, "I can smell your cunt."
Hannibal Lecter: I see. I myself cannot. You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps, but not today.
On second thought, maybe we shouldn't do that.
Anyway, here are some movie lines that I have enjoyed over the years.
1. "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime." - THE EXORCIST (1973)
2. "Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative."- SCREAM (1996)
3. "What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs! - ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
4. "She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?" - PSYCHO (1960)
5. "I have to return some videotapes."- AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)
6. "Where is the Mr. Pibb? I told your secretary to pack Mr. Pibb. It's the only Coke I like. Goddamn Brenda exploding like a water balloon, worms driving my friends around like they're goddamn skin-cars, people are spitting acid at me, turning you into cottage cheese, and now there's no fucking goddamn Mr. Pibb?"- SLITHER (2006)
7. "Doomed! You're all doomed!"- FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
8. "One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, better stay awake. / Nine, ten, never sleep again."- NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
9. "Hello Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever."- THE SHINING (1980)
10. "Hey, I'm sorry if the end of the world makes me a little nervous."- NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)
11. "It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare."- HALLOWEEN (1978)
12. "You play a good game boy, but the game is finished, now you die."- PHANTASM (1979)
13. "Boy, the next word that comes out of your mouth better be some brilliant fuckin' Mark Twain shit. 'Cause it's definitely getting chiseled on your tombstone."- THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (2005)
14. "That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people."- THE CHANGELING (1980)
15. "They're here."- POLTERGEIST (1982)
16. "Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow."- RE-ANIMATOR (1985)
17. "I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!"- AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)
18. "Something my granddad used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo. My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." - DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)
19. "Jesus H. Christ, Pete. When you gonna learn that microwave food'll kill you faster than a bullet? I mean, them damn burritos ain't good for nothing but a hippie, when he's high on weed."- FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
20. "Have you checked the children?"- WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979)
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