The Creature With the Atom Brain(1955)
Frank Buchanan, referring to one of the creatures with an atom brain: “Is he dead?”
Dr Wilhelm Steigg: “He never was alive. Different parts of the body die at different times. My next problem is how to keep them working as long as the heart is beating.”
Buchanan: “Does the brain still die first?”
Steigg: “Always. The brain always dies first.”
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein(1957)
Dr Frankenstein: “There will be no death in this laboratory unless I declare it.”
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Dr Zurich: “Since you know I’m dead, you know that you can’t kill me.”
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Ruler: “What plan will you follow now?”
Eros: “Plan 9.”
The Ruler: “Plan 9? Ah yes, Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead.”
Eros to Tanna: “You know, it’s an interesting thing when you consider the Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who do not – the dead.”
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Col Manning: “Why is it so important that you to contact the governments of our Earth?”
Eros: “Because of Death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.”
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Kelton commenting on the hulking form of Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson) carrying the unconscious Mrs. Trent: “Clay is dead and we buried him. How’re we gonna kill somebody who’s already dead…dead? Yet, there he stands.”
Steel Helmet (1951)
Sergeant Zack after ‘loosing his cool’ and shooting the Red Korean Officer he was supposed to keep alive to turn over to headquarters as a POW for interrogation: “If you die, I’ll kill you!”
It, the Terror From Beyond Space (1957)
Lone survivor Col Ed Curruthers: “(Mars was) …alive with something we came only to know as death.”
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Crewman Calder describing the Martian Creature standing in front of him: “There he is, as big as death!”
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Final summation of the doomed Martian expedition and putting the kibosh on any future expeditions: “Another name for Mars is death.”
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Sheriff McClelland describing the state of the marauding ghouls: “Yea, they’re dead. They’re…all messed up.”
Beetle Juice (1988)
Adam: “Barb, honey… we’re dead. I don’t think we have very much to worry about anymore.”
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Knight: “Who are you?”
Death: “I am Death.”
Knight: “Have you come for me?”
Death: “I have been walking by your side for a long time.”
Knight: “That I know.”
Death: “Are you prepared?”
Knight: “My body is frightened, but I am not.”
Death: “Well, there is no shame in that.”
Knight: “Wait a moment.”
Death: “That’s what they all say. I grant no reprieves.”
Knight: “You play chess, don’t you?”
Death: “How did you know that?”
Knight: “I have seen it in paintings and heard it sung in ballads.”
Death: “Yes, in fact I’m quite a good chess player.”
Knight: “But you can’t be better than I am.”
Death: “Why do you want to play chess with me?”
Knight: “I have my reasons.”
Death: “That is your privilege.”
Knight: “The condition is that I may live as long as I hold out against you. If I win you will release me. Is it agreed?”
The two choose chess pieces.
Knight: “You drew black!”
Death: “Very appropriate, don’t you think so?”