Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead

Johnny: [while putting the wreath on their father's grave] I wonder what happened to the one from last year. Each year, we spend good money on these things. Then, we come out here and the one from last year's gone.
Barbara: Well, the flowers die and the caretaker or someone takes them away.
Johnny: Yeah, a little spit-and-polish

could clean this up and sell it next year. I wonder how many times we bought the same one.

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Night of the Living Dead

Sheriff McClelland: Put that thing all away on the fire! We don't want it getting up again!

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Night of the Living Dead

[Tom has just brought Judy up from the basement]
Harry Cooper: You gonna let them get her too, huh?

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Night of the Living Dead

Barbara: Don't you understand? My brother is alone!
Ben: Your brother is dead.
Barbara: NO! My brother is NOT dead!

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Night of the Living Dead

Ben: Do you know anything about this area at all? I mean, is Willard the nearest town?
Helen Cooper: I don't know. We were driving and just trying to get to a motel before dark. That's when we spotted a group of those things on the road...
Ben: You said those things turned your car over. Do you think we can get it back on its wheels

and drive it? Where is it?
Helen Cooper: It seems like it's pretty far. After we got away, we just ran and ran until we spotted this farmhouse and...
Harry Cooper: Forget it! It's at least a mile.
Barbra: [still delusional] Johnny has the keys.
Harry Cooper: [to Barbara] Oh, are you going to carry our

kid a mile... through that army of things out there?
Ben: I can carry the kid. What's wrong with her? How'd she get hurt?
Helen Cooper: One of those things grabbed her...
Harry Cooper: Bit her on her arm.
[Ben sighs with worry]
Helen Cooper: What's wrong?
Ben: Who knows

what kind of diseases those things carry? Is she conscious?
Helen Cooper: Barely.
Harry Cooper: She can't walk. She's too weak.
Ben: [after a short pause] Well... one of us should try to get to the car!
Harry Cooper: Are you gonna turn it over by yourself?

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Night of the Living Dead

Barbara: Johnny has the keys...

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Night of the Living Dead

Tom: Okay, yeah, right away!

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Night of the Living Dead

Washington scientist: [on the news] Everything is being done that can be done.

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Night of the Living Dead

Johnny: There's nothing wrong with the radio. Must've been the station.

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Night of the Living Dead

[from the 30th Anniversary Edition - additional scenes]
Darlene Davies: So you don't think they'll find some kind of virus, or germ?
Reverend John Hicks: No. Those creatures were demons, creatures of Satan inhabiting the bodies of our dead. And the demons are still loose in this world, and the dead must be spiked.
Darlene

Davies: Spiked? I don't know what you mean.
Reverend John Hicks: Spiked, as the hands of Jesus were spiked to the cross! SPIKE the dead to prevent them from rising again before Judgment Day! All sinners must repent and the dead must be spiked! Heed the Word of the Lord, or the dead will rise again possessed by demons, and ye who are unclean shall be damned forever

and ever in eternal fire!

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Night of the Living Dead

Johnny: Hey, come on, Barb. Church was this morning.
[pause as lightning is seen]
Johnny: I mean, prayin's for church.
Barbara: I haven't seen you in church lately.
Johnny: Well, there's not much sense in my going to church.

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Night of the Living Dead

[from the 30th Anniversary Edition - additional scenes]
Reverend John Hicks: This is like the flood that happened during Noah's time, or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah! We ARE being punished for our sins! The dead are rising, and Judgment Day is upon us!