Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead

Johnny: [Noticing nobody in the cemetary] Why isn't no one around?
Barbara: Well, it's late. You could of gotten up earlier.
Johnny: Well, look, I already lost an hour of sleep to the time change.
Barbara: I think you complain just to hear yourself talk!

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Night of the Living Dead

[first lines]
Barbara: They ought to make the day the time changes the first day of summer.
Johnny: What?
Barbara: Well it's eight o' clock and it's still light.
Johnny: A lot of god the extra daylight does us, you know we've still got a three hour drive back, we're not going to be home until after

midnight.
Barbara: Well, if it really bugged you, Johnny, you wouldn't do it.
Johnny: You think I wanna blow Sunday on a scene like this? You know, I figure we're either going to have to move mother out here or move the grave to Pittsburgh.
Barbara: Well she can't make a trip like this.
Johnny: I know

that she can't.
[reaches for the wreath in the backseat]
Johnny: Is there any of that candy left?
Barbara: [looks in the glove compartment] No.

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: Don't you know what's goin' on out there? This is no Sunday School picnic!

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Night of the Living Dead

Harry Cooper: Helen! I have to get that gun!
Helen Cooper: Haven't you had ENOUGH?
Harry Cooper: Look, two people are already dead on account of that guy! Take a look out that window!

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: [seeing the remains of the woman upstairs] Jesus!

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: I'm telling you they can't get IN here!
Harry Cooper: And I'm telling you they turned over our car! We were damn lucky to get away at all! Now you're telling me these things can't get through a lousy pile of wood?

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Night of the Living Dead

Sheriff McClelland: Somebody had a cookout here, Vince.
Vince, Posse gunman: Yeah, sure looks like it, Con.

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Night of the Living Dead

Dr. Grimes: In the cold room at the University, we had a cadaver, a cadaver from which all limbs had been amputated. Some time early this morning, it opened its eyes and began to move its trunk. It was dead, but it opened its eyes and tried to move!

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Night of the Living Dead

Newscaster: Reports, incredible as they may seem, are not the results of mass hysteria.
Harry Cooper: "Mass hysteria?" What do they think, we're imagining all this?
Ben: Shut up!

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Night of the Living Dead

Sheriff McClelland: All right, Vince, hit him in the head, right between the eyes.

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: [trying to use the phone] I suppose you've tried this.

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Night of the Living Dead

Harry Cooper: [complaining that the boarded-up windows don't make the house safe] Man, you're really crazy, you know that? You got a million windows up here!

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Night of the Living Dead

Harry Cooper: Look! You two can do whatever you like! I'm going back down to the cellar, and you'd better decide! 'Cause I'm gonna board up that door, and I'm not going to unlock it again no matter what happens!
Tom: Now wait a minute, Mr. Cooper.
Harry Cooper: NO, I'm not going to wait! I've made my decision, now you make yours!

Tom: Now WAIT a minute! Let's think about this! We can make it to the cellar if we have to! And if we do decide to stay down there, we'll need some things from up here! So let's at LEAST consider this a while!

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Night of the Living Dead

Johnny: [at the cemetery] Do you remember one time when we were small, we were out here? It was from right over there, I jumped out at you from behind the tree, and Grandpa got all excited, and he shook his fist at me and said, "Boy, you'll be damned to Hell!"
[laughs]
Johnny: Remember that? Right over there. Boy, you used to really be scared here.


Barbara: Johnny!
Johnny: Hey, you're still afraid!
Barbara: Stop it, now! I mean it!

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Night of the Living Dead

Harry Cooper: [referring to everybody else, who are all upstairs] Let them stay upstairs. Let them. Too many ways those monsters can get in here. We'll see who's right. We'll see, when they come begging me to let them in down here.
Helen Cooper: That's important, isn't it?
Harry Cooper: What?
Helen Cooper: To

be right, everybody else to be wrong.
Harry Cooper: What do you mean by that?

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Night of the Living Dead

Harry Cooper: [complaining] This place is ridiculous! Look at this. There's a million weak spots up here. And they talk about these windows. I can't see a damned thing. There could be 15 million of those things out there. That's how much good these windows are.

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: They know we're in here now.

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Night of the Living Dead

Karen Cooper: I hurt.

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Night of the Living Dead

[Harry Cooper sees the zombies eating the flesh of the late Tommy and Judy]
Harry Cooper: Good Lord!

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Night of the Living Dead

Newscaster: All persons who die during this crisis from whatever cause will come back to life to seek human victims, unless their bodies are first disposed of by cremation.