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Article: 'Its alive! It's alive! It's ALIVE!'
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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When it comes to movie horror, we're hopelessly old-school,
suckled on the now-quaint Universal horror classics of the '30s and
'40s.
You know the black-and-white drill: Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf
Man, Mummy, etc.
The B.T.P. (before-torture-porn) boys.
After countless viewings over the years, we've committed most of
their dialogue exchanges to memory, with Bela Lugosi's "I never
dreeenk ... wine" from "Dracula" having gotten us the most mileage
at assorted dinner fetes and college keggers.
Along life's way, we've found that a lot of this monstrous
verbiage works well not only in horror situations but also day-to-
day drudge (we know: there's a difference??).
Here are some possibilities ...