White Zombie (1932)

John Harron: Neil Parker

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Quotes 

• Neil Parker : I kissed her as she lay there in the coffin; and her lips were cold.

• Neil Parker : Who are you?

  [looks around at the zombies] 

  Neil Parker : And what are they?

  Legendre : For you, my friend, they are the angels of death.

• [last lines] 

  Neil Parker : Madeline, my darling...

  Madeline : Neil, I... I dreamed.

  Dr. Bruner : Excuse me, please. Have you got a match?

• Neil Parker : Not dead? Are you mad? I saw her die. The doctor signed the certificate. I saw them bury her.

  Dr. Bruner : Now wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm not mad. But I've lived in these islands for a good many years. And I've seen things with my eyes that made me think I was crazy. There's superstition in Haiti that the natives brought here from Africa. Some can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt. And beyong that yet in the countries that was old when Egypt was young.

• Neil Parker : Why did you drive like that you fool? We might have been killed.

  Coach Driver : Worst than that, Monsieur. We might have been caught.

  Neil Parker : Caught? By whom? Those men you spoke to?

  Coach Driver : They are not men, Monsieur. They are dead bodies!

  Neil Parker : Dead?

  Coach Driver : Yes, Monsieur. Zombies! The living dead. Corpses taken from their graves, who are made to work at the sugar mill fields at night. Look! Here they come!

• Neil Parker : Surely you don't think she's alive, in the hands of natives. Oh no! Better dead than that.

• [first lines] 

  Neil Parker : Looks like a burial.

  Madeline : In the road?

• Dr. Bruner : If I could get my hands on the devil that's responsible for this, I'll make him such an example that every witch doctor in Haiti would be shaking in his sandals.

  Neil Parker : [showing frustration]  But we can't do this alone. Can't the authorities help?

  Dr. Bruner : [chuckles deriseively]  "The authorities." Neil, my boy, you don't know these islands. The native authorities are *afraid* to meddle. I am not. I've got friends among the natives. They'll tell me things that no gendarme could ever get out of them. Because I am a preacher, they think I am a magician. Before we get through with this thing, we may uncover sins that even the Devil would be ashamed of.