Films Based On Poems

"The time of heroes is dead: the Christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame."

"If we die... it will be for GLORY, not gold."

"They say you have a monster here. They say your lands are cursed. I am Beowulf and I'm here to kill your monster."

"What do you know of me... Demon?"

"Catherine O'Hara – Sally, Shock"

"Randy Crenshaw – Mr. Hyde, Behemoth, Vampire"

"Ed Ivory – Santa Claus/Sandy Claws"

"Ken Page – Oogie Boogie"

"Paul Reubens – Lock"

"William Hickey – Dr. Finkelstein (a.k.a. Scientist)"

"Glenn Shadix – Mayor"

"Chris Sarandon – Jack Skellington"

"[Repeated line] Damn, we're in a tight spot!"

"Ray McKinnon – Vernon T. Waldrip Suitor of Penelope"

"Wayne Duvall – Homer Stokes"

"Charles Durning – Governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel"

"Chris Thomas King – Tommy Johnson"

"Holly Hunter – Penny (Penelope) McGill nee Wharvey"

"John Goodman – Big Dan ("Cyclops") Teague"

"Tim Blake Nelson – Delmar O' Donnell"

"John Turturro – Pete"

"George Clooney – Ulysses ("Ulysses") Everett McGill"

"Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home."

"They have a plan, but not a clue."

"Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?"

"Well, any human being will cast about in a moment of stress. No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon..."

"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"