- The Collector: [looking at a original movie poster of "Night of the Living Dead"] The one that started it all for me. Zombie lore has been part of the collective consciousness for decades. But the works of George A. Romero had a massive influence on the culture. Weaving social commentary into a monster movie gave his films a resonance.
- Murphy: It's in black and white?
- The Collector: What's your favorite scene?
- Murphy: Who can pick just one?
- The Collector: I think it's so scary when the little girl turns and the mother just stares. Her baby is now a monster.
- Murphy: Eh, it happens.
- The Collector: [looking at another movie poster] Dawn of the Dead, 2004.
- Murphy: Now this one I did see! Scary and funny. That's how I like my zombies.
- The Collector: A satisfying remake of the Romero classic and a stinging rebuke of America's consumer driven society.
- Murphy: [talking sarcastically] I get it. Zombies are consumers driven by the mindless desire to obtain useless shiny stuff... blah, blah, blah.
- [the Collector, not amused, activates a hand-held device and electrode-shocks Murphy]
- Murphy: AH!
- [now talks more seriously]
- Murphy: And to set it in a suburban shopping mall. Pure genius.
- [Collector smiles]
- The Collector: Romero never explained why the dead rise. The not knowing is much more horrifying. Don't you think?
- Murphy: Knowing is pretty horrifying too.