Plan 9 from Outer Space quotes

View Quote Ruler: The old one must be sacrificed. Re-land on Earth. Send the old one to enter a dwelling. Then cut off the electrokinetic and turn on your ship's decomposure ray. The result will astound those watching. Astound them enough to delay their attention until you have gained your other recruits from the cemetery.
Eros: Yes, Excellency. It'll be done.
Ruler: Report to me when this has been accomplished. Eros, the Earth people are getting to that which we fear. Since they will not listen or respect our existence, they cannot help but believe our powers when they see their own dead walking 'round again, brought about by our advancement in such things. As soon as you have enough of the dead recruits, march them on the capitals of the Earth, let nothing stand in your way. Their own dead will be used to make them accept our existence, and believe in that fact.

View Quote Then one day it could all be gone, in one big puff of smoke and ball of fire. All that out there, the stars, the planets, all just an empty void.

View Quote Lt. Harper: What're you gonna do?
Clay: Look around a little.
Lt. Harper: Once you get beyond those lights you won't be able to see your hand in front of your face.
Clay: I will get one of the flashlights from the patrol car.
Lt. Harper: You be careful Clay.
Clay: I'm a big boy now, Johnny.

View Quote Lt. Harper: [at the cemetery] Colonel I've been out here so often you'd think I'd taken a lease on this place.
Col. Edwards: Not a long lease, I hope.
Lt. Harper: I see what you mean. But you know, I can't help but feel the answer's out here somewhere.
Col. Edwards: Is the, uh, girl safe?
Lt. Harper: Mrs. Trent you'd better stay with the car.
Paula: Stay here alone? Not on your life.
Lt. Harper: Modern women...
Col. Edwards: Yeah, they been that way all down through the ages. Especially in a spot like this.

View Quote Jeff: You goin' in that thing?
Col. Edwards: That's what we're here for.
Jeff: I don't know, the way these things speed around we might just get in there and pft! Off it goes.
Col. Edwards: That's a chance we take.
Lt. Harper: Well, I took a chance on those earlier airplanes. Might just as well see what the inside of one of these looks like. Got your guns ready?
Jeff: I tell you one thing, if a little green man jumps out at me I'm shooting first and asking questions later.

View Quote Lt. Harper: Now you two stay right where you're at.
Eros: We will do as you command. For the moment.
Lt. Harper: No for the moment about it. You just do as I tell you.
Eros: You do not need guns. They would be of no use to you now.
Lt. Harper: They've been mighty useful before on flesh and blood, and you two look like you've got a lot of both.
Eros: True, they would be effective upon us. If you were to have the opportunity to use them.
Jeff: Mister, if you don't get away from that control board I'll show you just how effective they can be.

View Quote Lt. Harper: It was a saucer.
Poiliceman: A flying saucer?
Larry: What makes you say that?
Lt. Harper: You remember the noise we heard the other night?
Larry: We were knocked to the ground, how could I forget?
Lt. Harper: Exactly, but you're not remembering that sound.
Larry: There you're wrong, Lieutenant. I'm with the fact the sound is similar, but what about the blinding light?
Lt. Harper: Well haven't you heard? Many times a saucer hasn't had a glow, or a light of any kind for that matter.
Larry: That proves it.

View Quote Lt. Harper: Get back up to the car and get on the radio. Tell the coroner he's gotta make another trip out here.
Kelton: Well how 'bout the lab boys?
Lt. Harper: Well who do you think we left back at the car, boy scouts?

View Quote Lt. Harper: Oh, I wonder if that's the last we'll see of them?
Col. Edwards: Perhaps, but sooner or later there'll be others.

View Quote If you have the solarbonite, you have nothing.

View Quote Larry: Strange. If someone had broken in, the dirt should be piled up here somewhere. It looks like it's fallen in, into the grave.
Lt. Harper: Larry, you'll be out of that uniform before you know it.

View Quote Kelton: Did you see that thing? Did you get it?
Lt. Harper: We got it.
Kelton: What was it? It didn't fall...I fired every bullet I had.
Lt. Harper: So did I. I don't know what it was or what happened, but unless that bag of bones can reassemble itself, it's out of the running now.