Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 10/30

On Halloween our thoughts turn to Hollywood horror. Here’s a haunting quiz on cinema dialogue. Guess which tale of terror each line is from. Anyone who fails to score 50% will be visited by the ghosts of the deceased directors at the stroke of midnight. Degree of difficulty will be in parentheses. Answers follow. No peeking - you’re being watched.

1. “What’s the boogie man?” (1)
2. “It’s alive! It’s alive!” (1)
3. “Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night can become….” (2)
4. “You are very wise, Professor Van Helsing - too wise to live.” (1)
5. “Dimi, why you do this to me, Dimi?” (8)
6. “I’m the monster’s mother!” (9)
7. “I see dead people.” (1)
8. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” (2)
9. “Watch the skies!” (8)
10. “They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next!” (3)
11. “The Eighth Wonder of the World.” (2)
12. “This is the freshest body we could come across save from killing one ourselves…We can bring him back to life.” (9)

What storm? Almost all traces of snow have disappeared in my end of Brooklyn.  Yesterday’s ugliness was replaced by brilliant sunshine. There was only the slightest chill in the air. I left my heavy jacket in the car.
Thank you to the young man whose books choices were impressive: Selected Works of Ben Johnson, a contemporary of Shakespeare; Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan; and two horror novellas of RL Styne I’d put out because of the season. And thanks to the young woman who purchased a little book on psychic children, and to Frank, who bought A Hitch in Twilight, the perfect book for Halloween.
 
1. Halloween (1978) directed by John Carpenter
2. Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
3. The Wolfman (1942) George Waggner
4. Dracula (1931) Tod Browning
5. The Exorcist (1973) William Freidkin
6. Alien Resurrection (1997) Jean-Pierre Jeunet
7. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
8. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
9. The Thing (from Another World) (1951) Christian Nyby
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel
11. King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
12. Re-Animator (1985) Stewart Gordon

How’d you do? Liars will be taken to a la-bor-a-tor-ee and used as test subjects.
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