2nd most-quoted character in The Return of the Living Dead (1985): in 4 of its 12 quotes
Most scenes with: Burt Wilson (3)
Scenes with Ernie Kaltenbrunner
4 scenes
Ernie Kaltenbrunner [Ernie has restrained a zombie onto a mortuary table in order to talk to it]
You can hear me?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Why do you eat people?
12 1/2 Woman Corpse
Not people. Brains.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Brains only?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Why?
12 1/2 Woman Corpse
The PAIN!
Ernie Kaltenbrunner What about the pain?
12 1/2 Woman Corpse
The pain of being DEAD!
Ernie Kaltenbrunner [laughs nervously]
It hurts... to be dead.
12 1/2 Woman Corpse
I can feel myself rot.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Eating brains... How does that make you feel?
12 1/2 Woman Corpse
It makes the pain, go away!
What about the bones Ernie?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Bones are no problem. Hardest thing to burn is the heart.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner 'cause it's just one big tough muscle.
Yeah, but Ernie, I mean, c'mon, we don't want the heart sticking around!
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Then I'll turn it up hotter for the heart.
S Spider
Man, look, how can we kill those things?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner You don't.
S Spider
Da **** you mean, "You don't"?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Burt.
You can't kill those mothers, they're already dead. You gotta understand they're not living creatures, they're animated. I mean, you can chop them up into pieces, the pieces would still come after you.
All you can do is just burn'em. You got to totally reduce them to ashes, so there's nothing left to come after you.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner [terrified]
How you gonna burn all those things?
S Spider
Man, there's a hundred of those ****ers!
Yeah, that is the question.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Burt...that favor you owe me?
Ernie Kaltenbrunner Watch your ass out there.
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