"They're coming." "They don't like being awakened this way." "Why do you have to be so mean?" "Hey, I'm your older brother." "Being mean and heartless is part of my job." "They're coming to get you, little sister." "Johnny, now you're being silly." "Will you cut it out right now?" "You never know when to stop." "Never!" "What's the matter, Barbara?" "You getting scared?" "You're still scared of her, aren't you?" "That's why we're here, isn't it?" "No, that's not why we're here." "Tell me something." "Why do we have to put ourselves through this charade?" "Because she is our mother!" "Can't you give her one day?" "One day?" "This is the fourth time we've been up here in the three months since she died." "I'm spending more time with her now than when she was alive." "And you know why?" "Don't start." "She couldn't be buried in the city." "That would've been much too easy." "She knew I'd have to be the one to drive you up here." "So she had herself buried 200 miles from the nearest glass of beer." "Now we're here." "Will you just stop it?" "Stop what?" "The truth?" "She drove our father to an early grave." "She drove me away from home and damn near drove you into a convent!" "That's not true." "When was your last date?" "That is none of your business!" "The one thing she never, ever drove was 200 miles to visit anything." "Johnny, please." "Now I need you to stop talking like that." "Don't talk like that." "Not here!" ""Not here"?" "Not here!" "Not in the middle of" "Of what?" "Show some respect!" "You're afraid, aren't you?" "You really are afraid of this place." "God, you never stop!" "For the love of God, Johnny!" "Bastard!" "Jesus, you're weird!" "Let's just get through this, can we?" "Just get it over with?" "They're coming to get you, Barbara." "For the love of God, Johnny!" "They're horny, Barbara." "They've been dead a long time." "Look." "Look!" "There's one of them now." "He wants you!" "He's getting closer." "Dangerously close!" "Stop it, John!" "He is going to hear you!" "It doesn't matter." "He knows we're here." "It's too late now." "There's no escape!" "No, Mother!" "You bastard!" "I'm sorry." "Very sorry." "I'm sorry." "Hey man, are you okay?" "Is there something we can do to help?" "That's weird." "Please, my brother's hurt!" "Hey, mister, hey!" "Please!" "We need help." "Please, mister, help us!" "Hey, is there anybody here?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Anyone else inside?" "You got any shotguns in there?" "Hunting rifle?" "Anything?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "You don't know?" "Hey, come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on, let's go." "Come on!" "Die!" "Damn it!" "Who is he?" "Do you know him?" "It's all right." "It's all right." "You did what you had to do." "Do you know any of them?" "The ones outside?" "This isn't your house?" "You don't live here?" "Talk to me, girl." "Do you have a car?" "Do you have a car?" "The windows!" "They can't break through the door but they can get through the window glass." "Goddamn you!" "Goddamn all of you!" "Truck's on empty." "We can't take the chance of running dry in the middle of nowhere." "We'll hole up here." "Hope that some help comes." "My name is Ben." "What's your name?" "Barbara." "Now, look here, Barbara." "I don't need you falling apart, understand?" "I see what you did over there." "I know you can fight when you have to." "Well, you have to now." "Right now." "Fight what you're thinking, what you're feeling." "The fight will keep you strong, keep you thinking straight." "What's happening?" "I don't know." "Nobody knows." "Radio in the truck." "All I heard was trash talk." "Same as always." "People sound like they know what's going on." "They don't know shit!" "Same as always." "One guy saying it's escaped prisoners on the loose from up at Hennessey." "Another guy saying it's some chemical spill making everybody go crazy." "They don't know shit." "How do they explain a man walking around with his neck broken?" "A man shot full of holes and still coming at you?" "Assholes down in Evans City, out for a good time with their guns and their six-packs." "Assholes trying to round them up and put them in the back of trucks!" "Like they know what to do with them." "They had ten twenty of them in the back of this panel truck." "They opened the door to let another one in." "They came spilling out of there." "Like bugs." "I was at a diner." "Windows shot out." "Lady next to me shot dead." "Others too." "I saw six or seven go down." "Car exploded outside." "My car caught on fire." "It was like like a war." "Some of those things made it inside the diner." "Started coming after us." "Some good old boy comes chasing them." "Mean son of a bitch, got some kind of hot-shit gun, like an M-1 6 or something, and he starts shooting wild." "Bullets tearing up the place." "I saw one of those things take thirty hits and keep on coming." "The damn thing had to be dead, but it kept on coming." "Till it took a hit in the head." "That brought it down." "The only way to stop them, you got to get them in the head." "Look, I don't know what's going on." "But I know that it ain't no prison break." "It ain't no kind of chemical I ever heard about, can make a dead man walk." "This is something that nobody has ever heard about and nobody's ever seen before." "This is hell on earth." "This is pure hell on earth." "Damn!" "Doesn't take long for the world to fall apart, does it?" "There's got to be guns in this house." "Maybe upstairs." "I'm going to go take a look around." "You all right down here alone?" "There's something up there." "What?" "What is it?" "It's all right." "It's nothing to worry about." "What is it?" "It's nothing." "It's nothing." "It's all right." "It's all right!" "Don't shoot!" "It's just us!" "Who the hell is us?" "Tom Bitner, sir." "That's me." "This is Harry Cooper." "That's his wife calling down in the cellar." "Got a sick little girl down there too." "My woman's down there too." "Judy Rose Larsen." "That's all of us." "Mind if we ask who the hell you are?" "Her name's Barbara." "I'm Ben." "You damn near broke my arm here, Mr. Ben." "Harry, for God's sake!" "Answer her." "Harry, please answer me!" "We're all right." "It's some people up here." "Didn't you hear the noise up here?" "We could've used some help." "Maybe you can see through walls, Mr. Ben." "I can't." "We heard banging." "Could've been those things, for all we could tell." "We just heard some banging around." "That ain't right." "We heard the girl calling out, asking if anyone was here." "We was just scared, that's all." "Want to know the truth?" "We was scared to hell!" "You live here, Tom?" "This is my Uncle Rege's house." "Him and my cousin Satchel." "Old Uncle Rege, he's dead." "I seen him." "I touched him." "He was dead." "He died today." "That's the truth!" "Harry, please!" "Let's talk in the cellar." "Me and Judy Rose, we went over to be with Satchel." "The radio said there was trouble." "We didn't see nothing." "We didn't see nothing." "Home to here, nothing." "Damn it!" "We've heard all this before." "I didn't hear it before, Cooper." "Go on, Tom." "Me and Judy Rose were walking over." "We wasn't here more than 1 0 minutes when Mr. Cooper come banging on the door." "How'd you get here?" "You don't look like neighbors." "You trying to figure out if somebody's got a car?" "We've done that." "Mine's broken down and the kid doesn't own one, if you can believe that." "Damn." "What about you, Mr. Ben?" "You don't exactly look like neighbors yourself." "Truck." "Outside." "Out of gas." "Gas?" "Evans City is five miles away." "We can make five miles on freaking fumes!" "What if we don't make it?" "You willing to take that chance?" "Besides, Evans City's a war zone!" "I know, I've been there." "It'll take us more than five miles before we find any real help." "There's a gas pump out by the shed." "But Uncle Rege, he keeps it locked." "You know where the key is?" "I could hunt for it." "We will, but not now." "It could take too long." "Besides, we might never find it." "We got to figure out what we're doing first." "Finish the story." "This is bullshit!" "If we're going to do something, let's do it." "If we're going to bullshit, let's do it in the cellar, where it's safe." "I'm not so sure that's a smart move." "What do you mean?" "I'm not sure locking ourselves down in that cellar is a smart move!" "I'm not going until I know all the options." "What options!" "Who gave you the right to decide for the rest of us?" "!" "I'm not deciding for you or anybody else." "I'm thinking about my own ass!" "You want to go down in that cellar." "Go!" "Nobody's stopping you." "Harry, what's going on?" "Damn it, Helen, quit yelling at me!" "I can't think straight with you yelling!" "You know, Cooper, I've only been around you a minute or two." "But that's enough for me to know I don't like you." "You feel the same about me, so let's stay out of each other's way." "Go on, Tom." "What else you got to tell?" "Like I said, Judy Rose and I we wasn't here more than ten minutes and Mr. Cooper came banging on the door." "We let him in, him and his wife." "I seen their little girl was hurt so I tried to call for help." "The phone's making this funny sound." "Tried and tried, and I couldn't call nobody." "That's when Uncle Rege he come walking out of the bedroom." "He was dead a minute before." "I swear to God!" "He was not dead." "He couldn't have been." "You were wrong." "You made a mistake." "That's all!" "He was dead." "I know he was." "What happened?" "Uncle Rege, he went after my cousin, Satchel." "He went after him like...." "I don't know." "Anybody else in the house?" "No, just them." "I'm afraid your cousin is dead." "I know he's dead." "He shot himself." "I mean, Uncle Rege coming after him and all, you know...." "I ran and got the shotgun, but what could I do?" "I couldn't shoot Uncle Rege." "Couldn't imagine doing a thing like that." "So I told everyone to go down in the cellar." "Going down there was my idea." "It was a good idea." "Look." "Look outside." "To the cellar, quick!" "That cellar's a deathtrap." "They're not strong, but together they could break through the door." "We'd be cornered down there!" "No way out." "Better to fight them here, where there's a way to escape!" "A way out is a way in!" "The windows!" "Maybe we can board them up." "There's no time" "There's only three of them." "I've handled more by myself." "Without these two guns." "If more come, that cellar door won't hold." "And the windows will." "I don't need this, Cooper!" "If you want to go downstairs, go on." "Get!" "You can be boss down there." "I'm boss up here." "What you going to do, Tom?" "Judy Rose, come up." "We need your help." "You're crazy!" "You're out of your minds!" "This is Judy Rose." "Get the shelves from the kitchen." "What are we doing?" "We're going to board up them windows." "Board up the windows?" "Will we be all right?" "There's more of them things out there." "More of them like Uncle Rege!" "Come on, do what I tell you!" "If I shut this door, I don't open it until somebody comes who can get us out of here." "If someone like that comes, we'll try to remember to call you." "Idiots!" "You lamebrains!" "You're going to die up here." "You going to die." "Daddy's found someone and we'll get some help." "What's happening?" "They decided to stay upstairs." "What about us?" "It's safer down here." "What about Sarah?" "It's safer down here, Helen." "There's just that one hammer." "Here, use this." "Nail them up quick and dirty." "Get the windows covered as fast as you can." "We'll reinforce them later." "Anybody find any keys, hang onto them." "How many people are up there?" "There's two more." "They've got the gun." "No!" "They've got two guns." "They might have 1 00 guns, for all I know." "But it doesn't matter because it's safer down here!" "We're going up." "We need help for Sarah." "I'm not opening that door, neither are you." "If you try, so help me, I'll" "You'll what?" "That is your daughter lying there." "We have got to get her to a doctor!" "There's no doctors upstairs." "And there's no way out of here!" "None of those yo-yos has a car!" "What a place to be stuck!" "The middle of nowhere!" "A bunch of yo-yos!" "Fever's gotten worse." "She's going to be all right." "Somebody'll come." "We'll get out of here." "We're all going to be all right." "Did you find anything?" "I'm done over here." "They're crazy." "They're out of their minds!" "You bunch of yo-yos!" "This is the last of the big stuff." "Not going to do it." "Give me a hand." "Turn it over!" "Move it from there." "I'll be back here." "Bring my gun when you come back." "Come on, nail it up." "Let's get it up." "We'll reinforce it later." "They're so slow!" "We could just walk right past them." "I wouldn't even have to run." "We could just walk right past them." "We have the guns." "If we're careful, we could get away." "You told me to fight!" "Well, I'm fighting." "I'm not panicking." "This place is not safe." "Not upstairs or down!" "We should leave before it's too late." "I know you want to get out of here." "And so do I." "And we're going to do it." "We'll figure out a way to get to that gas and we'll be gone." "You're doing fine." "I'm doing fine." "We're all doing just fine." "We'll make it." "If we're careful." "Like you said, we got to be careful." "Get them doors down and nail them up!" "That's it!" "Nice going!" "Is she crazy, or what?" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "Tommy!" "Easy, easy." "All right, nail it up!" "Nail it up!" "Get those few nails in there." "I'm going to get some on the tabletop." "It's all right!" "Come on!" "Keep nailing!" "Keep pounding!" "It'll hold for now." "Over here!" "Another door!" "Let's get this one off." "Just keep pounding." "That's good." "Hit it!" "Come on!" "We're going upstairs for a minute." "We'll leave the weapons here." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "Don't go up." "It's all right." "Come on." "Don't look at it." "What is this?" "All new stuff?" "Uncle Rege was fixing up the place." "No good." "It's better than nothing." "No, good." "Television." "Check it out and see if anything's on." "Found something." "Telling you what to do, I think." "Damn!" "This must really be big." "The station's in Zelionople." "It's only about 20 miles from here." "Might as well be a hundred." "They'll come on live." "Well, we can't wait for them." "Give me a hand with that lumber." "We can use some of this stuff to cover the windows downstairs." "I am some kind of stupid!" "What?" "Them old doors." "The ones we took down." "They're all in the cellar." "Heads up down there!" "Idiots!" "What's happening?" "How do I know what's happening up there?" "Said they were going to board it up." "Board it up, please." "You refused to help them." "That's right, Helen." "I refused." "Right!" "I refused!" "You know why?" "Because they're wrong." "It's a stupid idea!" "This cellar is the only safe place in the house." "You watch, just watch." "They'll come begging for us to let them in before it's all over." "And what will you do then, Harry?" "Will you open the door then?" "Mr." "Cooper?" "We need the doors down there so we can board up the windows!" "For God sakes, Harry!" "Fuck him!" "Mr. Cooper, can you hear me?" "You open this door right now!" "We need those doors, Cooper." "I got a shotgun out here!" "You open this door, or I swear I'll blow it to shit!" "What are you doing?" "What do you" "Shut up!" "What do you hope to accomplish?" "Shut up!" "I'm counting to three." "Then I'm coming through." "We're going to open!" "I'm counting." "That's one!" "What you going to do?" "That's two!" "Better open this door right now!" "Get your hands off of me!" "From now on, leave that door open!" "We may want to go down there." "We may need to get down there." "You want it both ways." "You get caged in here you want to be able to run downstairs." "It don't work that way." "You want to get in that cellar, get in now or you can forget it!" "I'm not boxing myself in down there until there's no other choice." "I'm not gambling with my daughter's life!" "Staying up here is your decision." "Don't count on me to help you." "I'm not counting on you for shit!" "That's why I'm" "If you're going to keep on fighting, get out!" "This is our house!" "This is Tommy's house." "You're all playing rooster with it!" "I'd like to know where you'd all be if we didn't let you in here." "Where would you be if we kicked you out?" "We won't kick anyone out." "We won't do anything like that." "Let's try and work together, and get some of this shit done!" "You ought to keep her covered." "Get some blankets from upstairs, or something." "How'd she get hurt?" "One of those people bit her on the arm." "What?" "You want this one too?" "We have to get help." "We have to get a doctor for Sarah." "We're going to try." "Since you ain't doing nothing, maybe start looking for those keys." "What keys?" "The keys to the gas pump out back." "You mean there's a car?" "It's a truck!" "The gas pump is locked." "The keys could be anywhere!" "Do you know where...." "Keys, I'm...." "I'm looking for...." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God!" "I need the hammer in here!" "Bring the hammer in here." "We got to get downstairs." "Quickly!" "Give me those nails!" "And that wrench!" "I can't let go!" "You got to help me out!" "Get me the wrench and nails." "This is definitely not going to work." "We've got to get downstairs." "Take your hands off of me." "Take your hands off of me!" "Damn it!" "Don't shoot him!" "It's Mr. McGruder from the legion hall!" "You shot Mr. McGruder!" "Look at his back!" "You shot him!" "Look at his back!" "I didn't do that." "Look there!" "Just like Uncle Rege." "They're dead, but they're coming right for us." "That's impossible." "That just can't be." "Grab him." "We'll throw him out the window." "Is he dead?" "Is he dead?" "You're all seeing this." "Is he dead?" "Stop it!" "You're losing it, girl." "You are losing it!" "You think so?" "Whatever I lost, I lost a long time ago." "I don't plan on losing anything else." "You can talk about losing it when you stop screaming at each other like two-year-olds." "You all right?" "You all right?" "It's going to be all right." "How many bullets does this hold?" "Fifteen." "There's more in the desk." "We have a few more windows to cover up." "Grab some lumber and get started." "It's going to take us a while." "Hospitals are deluged." "Random acts of violence are being committed by people in a trancelike or hypnotic state." "They've lost the ability to communicate and reason." "They do not respond to command or authority." "Civil and military forces have been mobilized but violence is so widespread it's impossible for rescue services to respond efficiently." "People left to defend themselves are caught in the grip of panic." "Citizens faced with the collapse of the police department have taken the law into their own hands." "Civil and social services have been disrupted." "Most areas are without telephones." "Many are without power." "Some are without gas and water." "Scientists are focusing on the phenomenon of the trancelike state that seems to characterize the assailants." "Clearly a behavioral disorder but what could have caused so widespread and dramatic a condition?" "We've heard speculation on everything, the ozone and chemical weapons." "Voodoo, mysticism, and organisms from space." "Biologists in California have released a report stating that the bodies of the recently dead are returning to life driven by an unknown force that enables the brain to continue to function." "Doctors at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reject that theory, calling it "preposterous beyond belief."" "They feel that the only reasonable explanation is a germ a bacteria or a virus that has a mind-altering effect on its victims." "How a germ could've been delivered so quickly in over such a vast area does remain a mystery." "It's being called "Judgment Day" by religious lead" "Hey!" "Where are you taking that?" "What the hell?" "That stays up here, pal!" "Will you get off my back?" "Damn it!" "Nice going, asshole." "You smashed it!" "You were taking it downstairs." "I was not!" "You stupid...." "Damn you!" "I'll kill you, you son of a bitch!" "It was the only way to know what was going on." "And you smashed it!" "I wasn't taking it downstairs!" "You can't get any reception in a basement, dickhead!" "What the hell is she doing?" "Is that your Uncle Rege?" "Looks like him." "Do you think he might have keys in his pocket?" "We've got to get the keys!" "Helen, damn it!" "Stay back here!" "We can get away." "No, it's too dangerous." "We could make it!" "Five miles." "We got Cooper's kid!" "We'll leave and bring back help." "We better make some kind of move." "We're drawing a crowd here!" "You know I'm right." "Like I told you, we could walk right by them!" "I got the keys!" "We got to get to the gas." "It's our best chance." "All right, everybody back inside." "Quick!" "Damn it, get in here!" "You stay inside." "What?" "Keep the rifle." "You can't go without guns!" "We have Tom's gun." "I want that rifle in here." "No locked doors between me and him." "For crying out loud!" "You think" "Shut up, Cooper." "Not another word!" "The only way I'm going out is if you keep things straight!" "Tom, let's go!" "It's you and me!" "I'm coming." "I can drive!" "Stay here!" "Somebody's got to drive, somebody's got to do the gas and somebody's got to ride shotgun!" "Tell him I know how to drive." "I can do it!" "Her daddy's got trucks." "She's been driving since she was little." "All right." "Is that shotgun loaded?" "I got shells in my pocket." "Can't tell how many are on the porch." "Getting past those will be tough." "Once in the yard, we ought to be all right." "Not too many out there." "There's no way." "This is crazy!" "You're never going to make it." "Keep an eye on us, on the side." "When we start back, get that kid up here fast!" "Judy, you get in that truck and get it started." "Don't stop, no matter what happens." "We'll keep those things off you." "Heads up!" "Tom, come on!" "Get in the truck!" "Helen, damn it!" "Ease up, I got him!" "Back!" "Shut the door!" "Start, you piece of shit!" "Start!" "Come on!" "What's happening?" "Ben!" "Judy Rose, slow down!" "We lost Ben!" "Stop the car!" "We lost Ben!" "Go back!" "We lost Ben!" "What?" "We lost Ben!" "Why didn't you tell me?" "I was hollering!" "Go back and pick him up!" "What should I do?" "I don't want to leave you!" "Go and get him!" "Wrong keys!" "What?" "These are the wrong damn keys!" "Tom, what the hell are you doing?" "I want you down in that cellar." "There's nothing more we can do." "Go on, do what he says." "We'll try to get into town." "If I can find any help, I'll be back." "Come on." "We mustn't leave Ben!" "We should wait until Ben's back!" "I'll wait as long as I can." "I want you where it's safe." "Maybe we should" "Into the cellar, Helen." "Now!" "Your daughter needs you." "Sarah?" "My baby!" "I want that gun." "You go to hell!" "I want that gun!" "Give it up, Cooper!" "Just crawl back into your" "Help me!" "Cooper!" "Open this door, goddamn it!" "Son of a bitch!" "Open this door!" "Goddamn it!" "Give that to me!" "I'm trying." "Push!" "Push!" "Let him in!" "The guns!" "Get his guns!" "Sarah?" "Shoot it." "Shoot it, Cooper!" "No, l" "Shoot it, Cooper." "But, it's my" "Stop it!" "Ben, are you crazy?" "Stop it!" "Madness." "Are you coming?" "We could make it!" "I can't." "I'm hurt bad!" "Go on, get out of here!" "Go!" "I'll bring help if I can." "Go!" "Oh, God!" "Do not attempt to reach friends or family." "Do not attempt to reach the rescue stations identified in previous advisories." "They may no longer be in operation." "Repeating this advisory from the Office of Emergency Preparedness dated 11 p.m., August 23, 1989." "It's been confirmed the bodies of the dead are being reactivated by a force as yet unknown." "They got that right!" "These reactivated bodies are weak and uncoordinated but are capable of inflicting damage on people and on property." "They are to be considered extremely dangerous especially when encountered in large numbers." "These bodies can be disposed of in only one known manner." "That is by incapacitating the brain." "They got that right too!" "These reactivated bodies will attack warm-blooded animals including human beings, without provocation and will devour the flesh of any prey." "It's been confirmed that acts of homicide and cannibalism reported in the afternoon and evening hours of August 23rd, 1989 are attributable, at least in part to these reactivated bodies." "Patrols are moving through western Pennsylvania in a systematic search for those who might be in need of assistance." "Don't shoot!" "Johnny." "Jesus!" "Goddamn, holy-loving shit!" "What in the name of Jupiter's balls are you doing out here alone little lady?" "Me and the boys must've dragged out at least seven, eight of them down there already." "Very interesting." "Are these things slow-moving?" "They're dead." "They're all messed up." "They really are slow-moving." "You ain't seen nothing like it." "They're us." "We're them and they're us." "Say what?" "Nothing." "Having fun?" "Give me a break." "Drag that out of here." "I'm going in." "Watch your back." "There may be more." "All right." "You came back." "There's another one for the fire."