27 quotes from your favorite Halloween movies
If you’ve ever planned a Halloween movie marathon, you know how hard it can be to get everyone to agree on what to watch. Some people love guts and gore, while others are looking for suspense and mystery. Still others prefer cult classics, parodies, and jump scares.
If you need help narrowing down the list, check out these horror movie — and faux horror movie — quotes. (Sources: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Wikiquote.)
1. “Jason was my son, and today is his birthday.”
Mrs. Voorhees, Friday the 13th
2. “It was bad, Mama. They laughed at me.”
Carrie White, Carrie
3. “Awful things happen in every apartment house.”
Rosemary Woodhouse, Rosemary’s Baby
4. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: “You know, I’m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.”
Igor: “What hump?”
Young Frankenstein
5. “Why was I cursed with such idiot sisters?”
Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
6. “I’m ready to tell you my secret now.”
Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
7. “Plans are pointless. Staying alive’s as good as it gets.”
Selena, 28 Days Later
8. “There’s nothing to worry about. You’re going to be just fine. I will take good care of you. I’m your number one fan.”
Annie Wilkes, Misery
9. “You know I can’t give you the keys, right, babe?”
Rose Armitage, Get Out
10. “Wrong? What could be wrong with our child, Robert? We’re beautiful people, aren’t we?”
Katherine Thorn, The Omen
11. “Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it’s just beginning. Sun comes up, we all laugh. Sun goes down, we all die”
Samara, The Ring
12. “I know who you are. You are the autumn people. Where do you come from? Dust. Where do you go to? The grave.”
Charles Halloway, Something Wicked This Way Comes
13. “We’re not gettin’ out of here alive. But neither is that thing.”
MacReady, The Thing
14. “I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”
Linus Van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
15. “You’ll float down here. We all float down here. Yes, we do!”
Pennywise, It
16. “Never trust the living.”
Juno, Bettlejuice.
17. “We were wondering if maybe you had experienced any disturbances.”
Diane Freeling, Poltergeist
18. “They call these guys Bonies. They don’t bother us much, but they’ll eat anything with a heartbeat. I mean, I will too, but at least I’m conflicted about it.”
R, Warm Bodies
19. Professor Bruckner: “He was nothing but a sadist, really.”
Ezra Lieberman: “A sadist with an M.D. and a Ph.D.”
Professor Bruckner: “Well, some people would say the perfect definition of a scientist.”
The Boys from Brazil
20. “Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.”
Norman Bates, Psycho
21. “Generally you don’t see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.”
Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
22. “Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”
Nancy Thompson, A Nightmare on Elm Street
23. “Wendy? Darling? Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in!”
Jack Torrance, The Shining
24. “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.”
The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
25. “There’s evil in the wood.”
William, The Witch
26. “I don’t think I’ve got it in me to shoot my flatmate, my mum and my girlfriend all in the same evening.”
Shaun, Shaun of the Dead
27. “It’s Halloween. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
Brackett, Halloween
Any others that should be on this list? Please add them to the comments.
