🔪horror lines that live rent free in my head

verified these are actually said in the movies, not misquoted internet versions. context under most

here's johnny!

jack torrance, axe, bathroom door - the shining (1980), still the reference point for someone unraveling

they're here.

carol anne says this in poltergeist (1982), maybe five minutes before the house turns on the family

they're coming to get you, barbara

johnny teasing his sister barbara in the cemetery, right before everything in night of the living dead (1968) goes wrong

we all go a little mad sometimes

psycho (1960), norman bates, said so calmly it's worse than yelling

one, two, freddy's coming for you

kids skip-rope to this in a nightmare on elm street (1984). still creepy with zero context

do you like scary movies?

it's alive! it's alive!

95 years old and everyone still knows this line even if they've never seen frankenstein (1931). henry frankenstein says it

you're gonna need a bigger boat

jaws (1975). i know it's more thriller than horror but the first ten minutes earn it a spot here

they mostly come at night. mostly.

aliens (1986), hicks. two words doing the work of a whole paragraph of exposition

i see dead people

the sixth sense (1999), cole sear, whispered from under the covers to bruce willis

i never wanted to be your mother!

hereditary (2018), annie, dinner table scene. the internet meme-ified it, but it's still scarier in context. longest note here on purpose

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