Burton's Confessions Through Lugosi's Mouth

Elmore 2022-04-20 09:01:36

They don't want classic horror anymore.
Today it's all giant bugs, giant spiders, giant grasshoppers.
Who would believe such monsters?

(The old ones were much spookier, they had castles and full moons.)
They were mythic.
They had a poetry to them.
And you know what else?
The women.
The women prefer the traditional monsters.
The pure horror, it both repels and attracts them.
Because in their collective unconsciousness they have the agony of childbirth.
The blood,the blood is horror .
Take my word.
If you want to make out with a young lady,
you take her to see Dracula.

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Extended Reading

Ed Wood quotes

  • [Finds Bela ailing]

    Bela Lugosi: This happens all the time.

    Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Is there anything I can get for you? Water or a blanket?

    Bela Lugosi: Goulash.

    Edward D. Wood, Jr.: I don't know how to make goulash.

    [See the track marks on Bela's arm]

    Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Bela, what's in the needle?

    Bela Lugosi: Morphine. With a demerol chaser.

  • [Bride of the Monster wrap party. Mariachi band plays "Que sera sera"]

    Tor Johnson: Mister Bunny, what's wrong? I heard you were becoming a lady.

    Bunny Breckinridge: Oh, that. Mexico was... a nightmare. We got into a car accident... he was killed. Our luggage... was stolen. The surgeon... turned out to be... a quack. If it hadn't been for these men...

    [gestures to the Mariachi band]

    Bunny Breckinridge: I don't know... how I would have... survived,