Favorite Horror Quote
This has turned into the Week of Personal Experience. I reckon we're all gazing inward just before the big seasonal onslaught of "must sees." Let's steal a page from the Classics Dept. and talk about our favorite quotes.
Two of mine are from From Beyond. I'm listing them as my favorite, since I use them all the time. That's the ultimate answer to this, goatlings, not just a list of the coolest sounding quotes, but sound bites you've integrated into your regular everyday speech.
For example, when they approach the mad scientist's house, it's dark and creepy outside, and Ken Foree (pictured! but from a different movie! I just liked the gun!) says in a gallows voice, "Not exactly...cheery." I say that all the time! Just like he says it.
Also, when the subway is about to burst into the tunnel, and I can feel the wind, I think..."some thing's coming!" just like Ted Sorel says it when the dimensional walls are vibrating and the eels are about to come pouring in. Practical use for horror quotes! Tell me some you use. Here's a cheat sheet from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Quotes:
"Your going to need a long spoon if your going to dine with the devil!" - Jack Palance "Cyborg 2"
"I'm Chris Hansen" - Chris Hansen "To Catch a Predator" - You try and tell me that show isn't horror!
"I guess he figured we were getting too big for our britches trying to figure his shit out" - Day of the Dead
"It's Alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein "Frankenstein"
"They're coming to get you Barbara" - Night of the Living Dead
"Give me some sugar" - Ash "Army of Darkness"
"God doesn't care about you it doesn't matter what you do the lord would just as soon see you drown in his spittle than enter the kingdom of Heaven!" - the Crazy Priest in "Severed Ties"
"Your mother ate my dog!"
"Well not all of it." - Piceta & Lionel - "Dead Alive"
"Tell me about these dark forces" - Lionel "Dead Alive"
"I kick ass for the lord" - The Priest "Dead Alive"
"I'm running the monkey farm now Frankenstein" - Rhodes "Day of the Dead"
"That's my mother your pissing on" - Lionel "Dead Alive"
"Stop it!" - Susperia
I could go on...
I see that you're a 'Dead Alive' fan, Microwaved, but I'm going to have to add to your 'Army of Darkness' collection instead with "This is my boom stick!"
Also, 'It' the book scared me WAY more than 'It' the movie (unless you count how scary bad it was), but I'll never get that clown out of my head saying "We all float down here..."
Not to be pedantic, but Ted Sorel said, "Something's...coming!" in "From Beyond." (BTW, the movie is out - legally - on DVD September 11th!)
A great quote of Jeff Combs' from "From Beyond" is, "It ate him...bit off his head...like a gingerbread man!!!"
I still love, "Cat dead, details later," from "Re-Animator" as well and "She's your girlfriend, you deal with her!" from "Evil Dead."
Thanks, Elisa. It's not pedantry, it's a mercy. The gingerman quote is awesome, by the way, in my mind for the super sl...o...w way Combs delivers it.
Caw!
Microwave already brought it up, but "They're coming to get you, Barbara." is one I use all the time.
"Come play with us. Come play with us, Danny. Forever and ever and ever." from The Shining. The trick is hitting that creepy pitch in your voice. I freak out my brothers with it.
"Come... here." Dracula. Complete with hand gesture.
Microwave already brought it up, but "They're coming to get you, Barbara." is one I use all the time.
"Come play with us. Come play with us, Danny. Forever and ever and ever." from The Shining. The trick is hitting that creepy pitch in your voice. I freak out my brothers with it.
"Come... here." Dracula. Complete with hand gesture.
Calling me a fan may be a slight understatement there Ashley. "Dead Alive" is in my top ten greatest films of all time. I can pretty much quote the whole film, same goes for "Army of Darkness" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash "Army of Darkness" (Theatrical Cut not the Directors cut)
"First you wanted to kill me, now you want to kiss me, blow." - Ash "Army of Darkness"
"You ain't leading but two things right now, Jack and Shit and Jack just left town" - Ash "Army of Darkness"
"You loved me once." "Yeah but you got real ugly." - Ash "Army of Darkness"
"We have such sights to show you." - Pinhead "Hellraiser"
And here's one that isn't horror but it is really terrifing that I have it commited to memory and use it...
"Yo Cat, why don't you drop that zero and get with the hero" - Vanilla Ice "Cool as Ice"
Here is a few I find myself quoting from time to time.
When someone screws up something:
"...you're so COOL, Brewster!" Evil Ed - Fright Night
Or if someone doesn't believe me:
"You have to have faith." Jerry Dandrige - Fright Night
And around Halloween I find myself singing that stupid song from that stupid movie Halloween III: Season of the Witch:
"Three more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween."
Not really a scary movie, unless you're scared of Replicants, but I often quote from Blade Runner. I'll usually say to someone in place of 'Goodbye'.
"Have a better one." Cop in Spinner to Deckard.
Or, and I don't know why (which in itself is scary), just out of the blue I'll say:
"Wake up! Time to die!" Leon
And another from Blade Runner when I arrive home:
"Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig!" Sebastian's toy
Those are the only quotes I can think of at this time that usually come to my mind.
My friends and I are forever saying "They mostly come at night...mostly." from Aliens. Something about the way she said it.
I'm also fond of reworking the old "I don't drink...wine" into "I don't drink...milk" because I'm lactose intolerant. Lame, yes. Usually gets an eyeroll or two.
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." I'm amazed how much that can be worked into conversations.
From Scream, when someone is being less than sensitive about something: "It's called 'tact', you f***rag."
"FRONK-EHN-STEEN!"
"It's Alive!!" of course
and a couple from 'The Dark Half'
"Whats goin' on out here?
Murder... You want some? "
"Remember, when you f*** with me, you're f*****g with the best."
I'm sure there are more.
this may take a few post to name all the ones i can think of, but heres my first list:
they're coming to get you barbara! notld (i got a t-shirt that says this from fright-rags).
listen up you primative screwhwads, this is my boomstick! ash, army of darkness.
groovy ash, evil dead 2.
someone's in my fruit cellar, someone with a fresh soul, evil dead 2.
its alive!!!!!! frankenstein 1931
listen to them, children of the night, what music they make. dracula 1931
blood, blood mother, blood psycho 1960.
a boys best friend is his mother, psycho 1960.
we all go a little mad sometimes, psycho 1960.
HI MIKEY! child's play.
ill swallow your soul, swallow this (blam), evil dead 2.
you found me bueatiful once, honey you got real ugly. army of darkness.
hes gonna get you, hes gonna get you, hes gonna get you, hes gonna get you, halloween.
whats the boogieman, as a matter of fact that was. halloween
hate living, love dead. the monster, the bride of frankenstein
a few more i thought of:
outlander! we have your woman, show your self or her blood will spill, malachi children of the corn.
thou shall be the unbelievers, isaac children of the corn.
gooble gobble, gooble gobble, we accept her, we accept her, one of us, one of us.
oh dear nothing left, what will we throw in now, hmmmmm........ young frankenstein.
i want my cake, creepshow.
your gonna shoot me! no dont shoot me! a bucket of blood.
we just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw, does that sound fun. evil dead 2
it was my wife's idea, hehe shes so amusing, vincent price house on haunted hill.
i love horror catchphrases, i use them all the time.
I am such a fan of "They're coming to get you, Barbra!", "First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow". Jesus, anything from Army of Darkness.
From Pyscho, "We all go a little mad sometimes."
From Dellamort Dellamore, "You're supposed to be setting a good example, now will you get back to your coffin immediately!"
From The Black Cat, "Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not."
"Even the phone is dead!"