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Beaumont: “I thought that beauty alone would satisfy. But the soul is gone. I can’t bear those empty, staring eyes. You must bring her back!” Legendre: “Aren’t you a trifle afraid, monsieur? How do you suppose those eyes will regard you when the brain is able to understand?” Beaumont: “Better to see hatred in them [...]

“Men anger the gods with their pride, and in order to punish them, the gods looked on as Pandora opened her box letting chaos loose. And now here in Monster City, mythology will become reality.” — Mephisto Demon City Shinjuku is a late-1980s anime where a young man, Kyoya, unwillingly walks the hero’s journey to [...]

“The Living Dead and the dying living are all the same. Cut from the same cloth. But disposing of dead people is a public service, whereas you’re in all sorts of trouble if you kill someone while they’re still alive.” — Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) Cemetery Man proves that no matter how bad your job [...]

Megan: “Tell me. Honestly, what are our chances?” Cooper: “Morale seems good, considering. But that will only last as long as the ammunition holds out. Although high spirits are just no substitute for eight hundred rounds a minute, but I don’t think that’s what you wanted to hear.” — Megan (Emma Cleasby) & Cooper (Kevin [...]

“Exactly. I hunted them. And shall I tell you why? I’d been a scholar all my life. I was curator of a large museum. And the war began. I who had never killed anything in my life assigned to duty as a sniper — a sharpshooter — because of my steady hand and keen eyesight. [...]

Caleb: “How old are you, Jesse?” Jesse: “Let’s put it this way: I fought for the South. We lost.” —Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) & Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen) Near Dark is one of the more interesting vampire movies to come out of the ’80s. Instead of painting the gothic romance or going the glam metal [...]