155 quotes found
"Another day to live through. Better get started."
"December 1965. Is that all it has been since I inherited the world? Only three years. Seems like a hundred million."
"There was a time that eating was pleasurable. Now it bores me."
"A dying world. An empty, dead, silent world."
"I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them."
"[filling up a bag with stakes] How many more of these will I have to make before they're all destroyed? They want my blood. It's their lives or mine. I still get squeamish."
"Better put that garlic back where it belongs. I can't live a heartbeat away from hell and forget it."
"Another day... another day to start all over again."
"This is Robert Morgan. If somebody can hear me, answer me. For God's sake, answer me!"
"Your new society sounds charming."
"Freaks! All of you, freaks! Mutations! I'm a man! The last... man..."
"Kathy Morgan: Mommy, where are you? Mommy, I can't see."
"Ben Cortman: Morgan! Do you hear, Morgan? Morgan, come out!"
"Virginia Morgan: [after becoming a vampire] Let... me... in."
"By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!"
"Do you dare to imagine what it would be like to be... the last man on Earth... or the last woman?"
"Alive among the lifeless... alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!"
"Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan"
"Franca Bettoia as Ruth Collins, an infected individual"
"Emma Danieli as Virginia Morgan, the wife of Robert Morgan"
"Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Ben Cortman"
"Umberto Raho as Dr. Mercer"
"Christi Courtland as Kathy Morgan"
"Antonio Corevi as the Governor"
"Ettore Ribotta as the TV Reporter"
"Rolando De Rossi"
"Carolyn De Fonseca dubbed for Ruth Collins' voice in the English release of the film. She was uncredited."
"Giuseppe Mattei as the leader of the survivors. He was also uncredited."
"White sharks are dangerous. I know 'em. My father, my brother, myself. They're murderers."
"Look. I run the park, I sell the tickets, and I make the decisions. Move the fish!"
"[trying to start the boat] Damn boat. I flooded... Damn boat!"
"He don't sleep in, he don't live in! You tell Shelby Overman for me he can take a flying leap in a rolling doughnut on a gravel driveway!"
"Dennis Quaid – Michael "Mike" Brody"
"Bess Armstrong – Kathryn Morgan"
"Simon MacCorkindale – Philip FitzRoyce"
"Louis Gossett Jr. – Calvin Bouchard"
"John Putch – Sean Brody"
"Lea Thompson – Kelly Ann Bukowski"
"Harry Grant – Shelby Overman"
"P. H. Moriarty – Jack Tate"
"Reaching new depths of terror."
"The third dimension is terror."
"A deadly new attraction."
"To... uh... paraphrase the venerable adage: we shall kill two birds, with one... pillow."
"[giving eulogy for John F. Black] And so, my friends, we find ourselves gathered around the bier of Mrs... er... Mr... You Know Whom... this litter of sorrow, this cairn, this cromlech, this dread dochma, this gart, this mastaba, this sorrowing tope, this unhappy tumulus, this, this... what is the word?... this... er, coffin! Never could think of that word. Requiescat in Pace, Mr... um... Mr... the memory of your good deeds will not perish with your untimely sepulcher."
"[repeated line upon waking up from his "death"] What place is THIS?"
"FELIX GILLIE---"Why did I ever escape from prison? It was so peaceful there !""
"Your favorite creeps...together again!"
"Every shroud has a silver lining!"
"Where the GHOULS are...is where the FUN is!"
"They put new life in the undertaking business!"
"A grave case of greed gone too far!"
"A macabre romp featuring 4 great names from the Horror Hall of Fame!"
"Vincent Price — Waldo Trumbull"
"Peter Lorre — Felix Gillie"
"Boris Karloff — Amos Hinchley"
"Basil Rathbone — John F. Black, Esq"
"Joyce Jameson - Amaryllis Trumbull"
"Joe E. Brown - the Cemetery Keeper"
"Beverly Hills - Mrs. Phipps"
"Alan DeWitt - Riggs"
"Buddy Mason - Mr. Phipps"
"Douglas Williams - the Doctor"
"Linda Rogers - Phipps' Maid"
"Luree Holmes - Black's Servant"
"Rhubarb the cat - Cleopatra"
"Mr. Winthrop, three-quarters of my family have fallen into madness, and in their madness have acquired a, a superhuman strength... so that it took the power of many to subdue them."
"I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us."
"See to the crypt, will you?"
"Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?"
"Vincent Price - Roderick Usher"
"Mark Damon - Philip Winthrop"
"Myrna Fahey - Madeline Usher"
"Harry Ellerbe - Bristol"
"The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been."
"Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT"
"I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!"
"He buried her alive... to save his soul!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher"
"Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me."
"This is the father of all ironies!"
"I admire you, Mr. Strock. You do what you feel you must do without caring whether you alienate anyone or whether they understand you or not. That is my way. That is the only way for a man of dedication. I know that you would like to stop me, sir. For that reason, my impulse is to have you destroyed. My desire on the other hand is to have you join me."
"Vincent Price - Robur"
"Charles Bronson - John Strock"
"Henry Hull - Prudent"
"Mary Webster - Dorothy Prudent"
"David Frankham - Philip Evans"
"Richard Harrison - Alistair The Helmsman"
"Vito Scotti - Topage"
"Wally Campo - First Mate Turner"
"Ken Terrell - Crewman Shanks"
"[quoting from Poe's poem] Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more.""
"Vincent Price - Dr. Erasmus Craven"
"Peter Lorre - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo"
"Boris Karloff - Dr. Scarabus"
"Hazel Court - Lenore Craven"
"Olive Sturgess - Estelle Craven"
"Jack Nicholson - Rexford Bedlo"
"Connie Wallace - Maid"
"William Baskin - Grimes"
"Aaron Saxon - Gort"
"There was no battle of egos, just a little discussion about technique. Peter loved to improvise, but Boris did not. Boris pointed out he was a classically trained actor who learned his lines from the script and came prepared to deliver them as written. "It puts me off," he told me of Peter's improvisations."
"I told Peter I loved what he did, but that we needed to stay a bit closer to the script. Vincent was cool with it either way."
"The supreme adventure in terror!"
"THE TERROR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!"
"The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror!"
"Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!"
"I worshiped your sister. I worship her still. Without her, life is meaningless. She was that substance of loveliness. [displays a painting of Elizabeth] I tried to capture it, but it was the way she walked and moved - her smile, her voice. She sang like an angel. And she could play the harpsichord as no other woman I've ever known could play."
"Could I have kept that ring without knowing it? Play the harpsichord without knowing it? Destroyed Elizabeth's room all without knowing it? My inner mind - creating evidence of Elizabeth's vengeful return because that mind knows. But I don't know! I will find out."
"I will tell you where you are. You are about to enter hell, Bartholomew. Hell! The Netherworld. The infernal region. The abode of the damned. The place of torment. Pandemonium. "Abbadon, "Tophet", "Gehenna". "Naraka", the pit! And the pendulum."
"Harlot! You will die in agony! Die!"
"The razor edge of destiny. That's the condition of man. Bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape - surrounded by the waiting pit of hell. Subject to the inexorable pendulum of fate - which must destroy him finally."
"Elizabeth was quite dead. I would stick my reputation on that fact."
"She does not haunt you, Nicholas. Can you not see that? It is you punishing yourself."
"This groundless dread must finally be put to rest. We will exhume Elizabeth."
"Buying and selling. Living and dying. The weave of life."
"Vincent Price — Nicholas/Sebastian Medina"
"John Kerr — Francis Barnard"
"Barbara Steele — Elizabeth"
"Luana Anders — Catherine Medina"
"Antony Carbone — Doctor Leon"
"Until now no one has dared to film this ...... the most diabolical classic of all time!"
"The Greatest Terror Tale Ever Told!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's diabolic classic"
"She was enslaved by evil in a terror haunted castle."
"Betrayal cuts both ways!"
"This is the beat of a human heart. Sit very still and listen. Is your heart beating in this same rhythm? You are experiencing the heartbeat of a dying man. And it is with death and dying that we concern ourselves. What happens at the point of death? What happens afterwards? What happens after death to someone who does not choose to stay dead, someone like Morella?"
"And what is it that happens just before death which leads inexorably to that death? Our second tale provides one roguish answer to that question in the story of a man who hated a cat. The Black Cat."
"What exactly is it that occurs within the moment of death, especially to a man within that moment who is not permitted to die, as in the case of Mr. Valdemar?"
"Pardon me, ladies, but could you spare a coin for a moral cripple?"
"Why don't you watch where I'm going, huh?"
"Haven't I convinced you of my sincerity yet? I'm genuinely dedicated to your destruction."
"Vincent Price — Fortunato/Valdemar/Locke"
"Maggie Pierce — Lenora Locke"
"Mary Leona Gage — Morella Locke"
"Edmund Cobb — Driver"
"Debra Paget — Helene Valdemar"
"David Frankham — Valdermar's physician"
"Peter Lorre — Montresor Herringbone"
"Joyce Jameson — Annabel Herringbone"
"Basil Rathbone — Mr. Carmichael"
"A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!"
"So, each day science, founded on years of research and truth merges with feats, which put our old fashioned magicians to shame. Aladdin rubbed the lamp and the genie appeared. Today we can press a button, and the whole of mankind is obliterated."
"I do NOT believe."
"Witch or Woman, What Was It?"
"You Must See It From the Beginning To Feel The Shock-Impact of the End!"
"The Most Terrifying Screen Experience of Your Life!"
"Do the undead demons of hell still arise to terrorize the world?"
"Peter Wyngarde — Norman Taylor"
"Janet Blair — Tansy Taylor"
"Margaret Johnston — Flora Carr"
"Anthony Nicholls — Harvey Sawtelle"
"Colin Gordon — Lindsay Carr"
"Kathleen Byron — Evelyn Sawtelle"
"Reginald Beckwith — Harold Gunnison"