Sinister Quotes

Tracy: It's one thing to hear about something but it's another thing to see it.

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Deputy: [matter-of-factly]Snakes don't have feet. [nods his head at Ellison, who in turn looks really confused]
Deputy: Scorpions do, but you wouldn't hear them like you would squirrels.

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Ellison Oswalt: [Ellison is reading about super 8 film on Wikipedia]Super 8 was invented by Eastman Kodak in 1966.

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Tracy: I think I'll do some grocery shopping. I figured I'd get the lay of the land - have a nice morning with your murder victims!

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Tracy: [Angrily from the distance]That's the problem - you don't think! You want to be treated like an adult but you don't act like one!
Trevor: [sarcastically]Oh yeah, 'cuz you and Dad do a lot of thinking together! If you did, we wouldn't be here! [Ellison steps out of his office to see what the argument is about]
Tracy: Go to your room Trevor, and I don't wanna see you again 'till dinner!
Ellison Oswalt: Hey hey hey! What's the problem?
Tracy: Your son's been acting out again! He drew a picture with a permanent marker on the classroom whiteboard! [to Trevor]
Tracy: tell him what you drew!
Trevor: [reluctantly muttering]I drew a tree.
Tracy: With four people HANGING from it! Go to your room Trevor, I need to speak with your father.
Trevor: Fine! [slams the door]
Tracy: [Sounding more worried and embarrassed than angry]First day of school Ellison, and your son's already drawing the grisly details of your mystery? Your book's about a family that was HUNG? Christ, Ellison!
Ellison Oswalt: And that's all he drew?
Tracy: That's not enough?

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Ellison Oswalt: When bad things happen to good people they still need to have their stories told, they deserve that much!
Tracy: [annoyed and sarcastic]You're a real man of the PEOPLE!

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Sheriff: An autograph?
Deputy: I just thought that...
Sheriff: Are you kidding me?

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Ellison Oswalt: [as the attic door swings open and a surreal vision of walking through super 8 film goes by]What the hell is going on?

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Deputy: [the deputy stares nervously at a photo of the killer on the wall]Who is that?
Ellison Oswalt: I don't know. That's what I'm hoping to find out.
Deputy: You think these are serial murders?
Ellison Oswalt: Maybe. More ritualised than necessarily serial, but really spread out, and not just regionally, but over time. The first one dates back to the '60s.
Deputy: The 1960's?
Ellison Oswalt: Yeah.
Deputy: That would put the killer what, in his seventies?
Ellison Oswalt: Yeah, or his sixties.

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Stephanie: [Ashey lies awake in bed in the dark, staring down at her imaginary friend, Stephanie, who is standing next to a painting of Bughuul's face attacked to a tree with four bodies dangling down from the branches]Shhhhh!

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Tracy: Why was he pointing at the house? Ellison, we didn't move in a few houses down from a crime scene again. did we?
Ellison Oswalt: Tracy...
Tracy: No, just don't say anything. If we did, I don't wanna know about it.
Ellison Oswalt: We didn't.
Tracy: You promise?
Ellison Oswalt: I promise.

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Ellison Oswalt: [Using his digital camera to film four disturbing childish drawings]Family Hanging Out. Barbeque. Pool Party. Sleepytime.

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Tracy: Your legacy? That's Ashley and Trevor! Your KIDS are your legacy!

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Professor Jonas: [concerned]... There's been another one, hasn't there?

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Ellison Oswalt: [to Ashley and Trevor]Well, it's nice to see that you two are so *enthusiastic* about our adventure! [Ashley begins throwing er food at Trevor and Trevor does the same]
Tracy: Stop it!
Ellison Oswalt: Hey, stop it - be the bigger person.

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