See ya and I wouldn’t wanna be ya. New Jack City 1991 starring Wesley Snipes & Ice-T & Judd Nelson & Allen Paynes & Chris Rock & Bill Nunn & Russell Wong & Bill Cobbs & Christopher Williams et al, director Mario van Peebles, Nino to body hanging over bridge
Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. American Psycho 2000 starring Christian Bale & Willem Dafoe & Jared Leto & Josh Lucas & Samantha Mathis & Matt Ross & Bill Sage & Chloe Sevigny & Cara Seymour & Justin Theroux & Reese Witherspoon et al, director Mary Harron, Bale’s commentary
But not a single clear identifiable emotion except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me. ibid. Bale
I need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale. ibid.
This confession has meant nothing. ibid.
Murder never solved anything. Scarlett Street 1945 starring Edward G Robinson & Joan Bennett & Dan Duryea & Margaret Lindsay & Jess Barker & Rosalind Ivan & Arthur Loft & Charles Kemper & Russell Hicks & Samuel S Hinds et al, director Fritz Lang, hack on train
We all have murder in us. Fifty Dead Men Walking 2008 starring Jim Sturgess & Ben Kingsley & Rose McGowan & Kevin Zegers & Kris Edlund & Natalie Press & Paschal Friel et al, director Kari Shogland, Fergus
What’s it like knowing you’ve killed someone? Adulthood 2008 starring Noel Clarke & Adam Deacon & Scarlett Alice Johnson & Femi Oyeniran & Red Madrell & Jacob Anderson & Ben Drew & Wil Johnson & Nathan Constance & Adjoa Andoh & Madeleine Fairley et al, director Noel Clarke, bird to geezer
You tell ’em Mickey and Mallory Knox did it. Born Killers 1994 starring Woody Harrelson & Juliette Lewis & Robert Downey junior & Tommy Lee Jones & Tom Sizemore & Rodney Dangerfield & Edie McClurg & Sean Stone & Russell Means & Lanny Flaherty et al, director Oliver Stone, opening scene
The past is behind us, Mal. It’s time to grow up. We got the road to Hell in front of us. Mal, will you marry me? ibid. him to her
Shrums, Mal, they ain’t kicking in yet. ibid. him to her
Open it. Rope 1948 starring James Stewart & John Dall & Farley Granger & John Chandler & Cedric Hardwicke & Constance Collier & Douglas Dick & Edith Evanson et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, Brandon opening scene
He was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. ibid.
I felt tremendously exhilarated. ibid.
Being weak is a mistake. ibid.
Now the fun begins. ibid.
Murder is or should be an art. ibid. Stewart
The few are those men of such intellectual and cultural superiority that they are above the traditional moral concepts. ibid. Brandon
I’d hang all incompetents and fools anyway. ibid.
We are each a separate human being, Brandon. And with the right to live and work and think as individuals. But with an obligation to the society we live in. By what right do you dare say there is a superior few to which you belong? ibid. Stewart
Another necktie strangling. Frenzy 1972 starring Jon Finch & Alex McCowen & Barry Foster & Billie Whitelaw & Barbara Leigh-Hunt & Helen Merchant & Anna Massey & Bernard Cribbins & Michael Bates & Jean Marsh & Clive Swift & Madge Ryan & Gerald Sim & John Boxer & George Tovey et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, Evening Standard headline
They hate women and are mostly impotent. Don’t mistake rape for potency, sergeant. In the latter stages of the disease it’s the strangling not the sex that brings them on. Above all, of course, they are sadists. ibid. rozzer to rozzer
Mr Poirot, I’m a rich man. Naturally, men in my position have enemies. Murder on the Orient Express 1974 starring Albert Finney & Lauren Bacall & Martin Balsam & Ingrid Bergman & Jacqueline Bisset & Sean Connery & John Gielgud & Wendy Hiller & Anthony Perkins & Venessa Redgrave & Richard Widmark & Michael York et al, director Sidney Lumet
We know the true identity of Mister Ratchett and why he had to leave America. ibid. Poirot
It is certainly an answer. ibid. Poirot
Here is the simply answer; there is also a more complex one. ibid.
By two o’clock the murder was afoot: envisage it. ibid.
Wives don’t nag; they discuss. Rear Window 1954 starring James Stewart & Grace Kelly & Wendell Corey & Thelma Ritter & Raymond Burr & Judith Evelyn & Ross Bagdasarian & Georgine Darcy & Sara Berner & Frank Cady et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, bloke on dog n bone
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. ibid. Stella
Just how would you start to cut up a human body? ibid. James to Grace
August 1962 was a stormy time for France. Many people felt that president Charles de Gaulle had betrayed the country by giving independence to Algeria. The Day of the Jackal 1972 starring Edward Fox & Michael Lonsdale & Cyril Cusack & Timothy West & Derek Jacobi & Terence Alexander & Michel Auclair & Alan Badel & Denis Carey et al, director Fred Zinnemann, voice
Today’s execution must surely mean that the OAS is finished once and for all. ibid. news
This job depends on absolute secrecy. ibid. Fox
If the Jackal wasn’t Calthrop, then who the hell was he? ibid. rozzer
You can’t nod off in this town or you’re up to your neck in shit before you know it. Sweeney Todd 2006 starring Ray Winstone & Essie Davis & David Warner & Tom Hardy & David Bradley & Roger Frost & Ben Walker et al, director David Moore, her to him opening scene
I did twenty years in Newgate for a crime you committed. ibid. Todd to dad
Hell is an invention to frighten us. There is no hell except the one we make for ourselves on Earth. ibid. Todd to patient
I slit his throat. It’s what I do. ibid. Todd’s confession
If he didn’t do it, I’ll get him off. Jagged Edge 1985 starring Glenn Close & Jeff Bridges & Peter Coyote & Robert Loggia & John Dehner & Karen Austin & Guy Bond & Louis Giambalvo & Lance Henriksen & Mastall Colt et al, director Richard Marquand, Close
He is an iceman. He is a monster. ibid. prosecutor to Close
Bloody murderer! The Cruel Sea 1952 starring Jack Hawkins & Donald Sinden & Denholm Elliott & John Stratton & Stanley Baker & Liam Redmond & Bruce Seton & Meredith Edwards & Virginia McKenna & June Thorburn & Megs Jenkins et al, director Charles Frend, crewman at captain
No-one murdered them. It’s the war. The whole bloody war. ibid. captain
Mr Stringer, would you say I was an unstable woman? Murder, She Said 1961 starring Margaret Rutherford & Arthur Kennedy & Muriel Pavlow & James Robertson Justice & Thorley Walters & Charles Tingwell & Conrad Phillips & Ronald Howard & Joan Hickson et al, director George Pollock
You’re not by any chance on the run from the police, are you? ibid. boy to Rutherford
I really don’t think we’ll be very welcome here, Miss Marple. Murder at the Gallop 1963 starring Margaret Rutherford & Stringer Davis & Robert Morley & Flora Robson & Bud Tingwell & Gordon Harris & Robert Urquhart & Katya Douglas & James Villiers & Noel Howlett et al, director George Pollock, opening scene Rutherford approaches old house
Agatha Christie should be compulsory reading for the police force. ibid. Miss Marple
Indeed I have a crime to report: Murder. Murder most foul. ibid. Miss Marple on dog-n-bone
I have some tittle-tattle to convey. Do come in. ibid. Miss Marple to rozzers
Smoke so does get in one’s eyes. Murder Ahoy! 1964 starring Margaret Rutherford & Lionel Jeffries & Charles Tingwell & William Mervyn & Joan Benham & Nicholas Parsons & Stringer Davis & Miles Malleson & Henry Oscar & Derek Nimmo & Gerald Cross & Bernard Adams & Edna Petrie et al, director George Pollock
Nil desperandum, as my old science mistress used to say. ibid.
Every man and dog in the force. ibid. detective
Do you know what day it is? ibid. captain to detective
This man is not drunk, Mr Cosgood. He is dead. Murder Most Foul 1964 starring Margaret Rutherford & Ron Moody & Bud Tingwell & Andrew Cruickshank & Megs Jenkins & Dennis Price & Ralph Michael & James Bolan & Stringer Davis & Francesca Annis & Terry Scott & Windsor Davies et al, director George Pollock
One out of every twenty-one black American males will be murdered in their lifetime. Most will die at the hands of another black male. Boyz n the Hood 1991 starring Ice Cube & Cuba Gooding junior & Laurence Fishburn & Morris Chestnut & Nia Long & Angela Bassett & Tyra Ferrell et al, director John Singleton, opening caption