ParaNorman
Quotes: Creative, Clever and Funny
(Total Quotes: 71)
This touching and creative animation follows the story of a lonely boy named Norman Babcock who is able to speak with the dead and due to this unique and strange gift he is treated like a freak by his family and peers until he meets a boy at school, Neil, who is also bullied due to his weight. Then Norman gets a decree from his eccentric uncle that he must use his gift to save the town from the ghost of a powerful witch which takes him on the journey of finding his true purpose, acceptance of others and forgiveness. ParaNorman quotes offer a very familiar narrative of the outcast turned unlikely hero and along the way learning his own self-worth. It's creepy, funny and touching in all the right places and although the story may be predictable it's well played out and thoroughly engaging.
Directed by:
Chris Butler
Sam Fell
Written by: Chris Butler
Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee - Norman Babcock (voice)
Tucker Albrizzi - Neil (voice)
Anna Kendrick - Courtney (voice)
Casey Affleck - Mitch (voice)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Alvin (voice)
Leslie Mann - Sandra Babcock (voice)
Jeff Garlin - Perry Babcock (voice)
Elaine Stritch - Grandma (voice)
Bernard Hill - The Judge (voice)
Jodelle Ferland - Aggie (voice)
Tempestt Bledsoe - Sheriff Hooper (voice)
Alex Borstein - Mrs. Henscher (voice)
John Goodman - Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Hannah Noyes - Salma (voice)
Jack Blessing - Slob Guy / Civil War Ghost (voice)
Ranjani Brow - Movie Lady (voice)
Michael Corbett - Movie Zombie (voice)
David Cowgill - Greaser Ghost (voice)
Emily Hahn - Sweet Girl (voice)
ParaNorman
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[first lines; Norman is
watching a '70s zombie movie in his family room while his Grandmother
is watching him]Grandma: What's happening now?
Norman Babcock: Well, the zombie is eating her head, Grandma.
Grandma: That's not very nice. What's he doing that for?
Norman Babcock: Cause he's a zombie, it's what they do.
Grandma: He's gonna ruin his dinner. I'm sure if they just bothered to sit down and talk it through, it'd be a different story.
[Norman's dad opens the family room door and calls to Norman]
Perry Babcock: Norman, didn't I tell you to take out the garbage?
Norman Babcock: Yeah, coming, dad!
Grandma: Tell him to turn up the thermostat too, will you? My feet are like ice.
[as Perry enters the kitchen to take out the garbage]
Sandra Babcock: Hi, what you watchin' in there?
Norman Babcock: Sex and violence.
Sandra Babcock: Oh, that's nice.
Perry Babcock: Can't you be like other kids your age and pitch a tent in the yard or have healthy interest in carpentry?
Sandra Babcock: Perry!
Norman Babcock: I thought you said kids my age were too busy shoplifting and joy riding.
[Norman returns to the kitchen after taking out the garbage]
Norman Babcock: Hey, uh...dad? Grandma says can you turn up the heating? Her feet are cold.
Sandra Babcock: Now, Perry...
Perry Babcock: How many times do we have to go through this, son?
[suddenly he shouts]
Perry Babcock: Your Grandmother is dead!
Norman Babcock: I know.
Perry Babcock: Then why do you keep on talking to her?
Norman Babcock: Because she talks back.
Courtney: OMG! You are such a liar!
Norman Babcock: God, I'm not making this up! I swear! She talks to me all the time!
Courtney: Oh, yeah? Prove it.
Norman Babcock: She said, it's not very ladylike to hide photo's of the high school Quarterback with his shirt off in your underwear drawer.
Courtney: Haa! I knew it! You've been sneaking around in my personal...
[Courtney screams in anger]
Norman Babcock: No, I haven't. Grandma told me.
Courtney: You are the worst!
[Courtney turns in anger and walks off]
Sandra Babcock: Norman, I know you and Grandma were very close. But we all have to move on. Grandma's in a better place now.
Norman Babcock: No, she's not. She's in the living room.
Perry Babcock: You're Grandmother was old and sick and she died. That's all there is to it!
Sandra Babcock: Okay. Perry, this is just part of the mourning process.
Perry Babcock: Oh, stop indulging him! I'm nothing if I'm not liberal, but that limp wristed hippy garbage needs to be nipped in the bud!
[Norman feeling dejected starts walking off as his parents continue to argue over him, he can still hear them shouting as he sits in his room]
Perry Babcock: This behavior might be okay with your side of the family, but I'm not putting up with it anymore! Not me!
Sandra Babcock: Oh, not this again!
Perry Babcock: This isn't the West Coast, Sandra! People talk! They do!
Sandra Babcock: He's just sensitive, Perry.
Perry Babcock: Oh, please! Sensitive is writing poetry and being lousy at team sports, not this! I won't have him turn out like uncle of yours. If that crazy old tramp has been around here putting ideas in Norman's head...!
Sandra Babcock: Perry, no one's had anything to do with Uncle Prenderghast in years. I bet he doesn't even know what Norman looks like.
[at the same time that Norman's parents are arguing over him, we see Uncle Prenderghast looking and photo's of Norman and muttering to himself]
Mr. Prenderghast: Not much time. Not much time.
[next morning Norman gets ready for school with his various zombie-themed appliances, he then goes down to the living room where he sees his grandmother's spirit sitting on the couch, he waves goodbye, as he leaves Courtney peaks into the room and sees nothing, Norman then walks to school exchanging hello's with various dead spirits that we can't see]
Norman Babcock: Good morning!
[he walks on and talks to another spirit]
Norman Babcock: Hey, Bruce, how's it going?
[carries on walking and sees another spirit]
Norman Babcock: Not much. I'm kinda late for school. I need to go.
[as continues walking he runs into more spirits]
Norman Babcock: Hi, nice to see you guys!
[keeps passing dead spirits]
Norman Babcock: Good morning. Sorry, I've gotta run.
[as he starts to run he runs into another spirit]
Norman Babcock: Oh, excuse me! Pardon me! See ya!
[just then a man walks past Norman and gives him a look and Norman avoids eye contact and quickly walks on]
[as he continues to walk to school we then get to see what Norman sees, all the dead spirits floating around in the streets]
Norman Babcock: Hi, Mrs. Harmon. You look nice today. I like what you've done with your hair.
Hair Dryer Ghost: Does anyone smell burning?
[Norman passes the ghost of a floating hippy]
Hippy Ghost: Hey! Peace, man!
Norman Babcock: Totally!
[he passes the ghost of Civil War veteran on his horse]
Civil War Ghost: As you were, Soldier.
Norman Babcock: Sir. Yes, sir.
[Norman then passes the spirit of a 1960's Greaser]
Greaser Ghost: Yoh, Norman! Playing hooky?
Norman Babcock: No, no! I'm just late for school. Sorry, I gotta go.
[he passes a spirit of a gangster]
Norman Babcock: How you doing?
Slob Guy: Hey! How you doin'?
[he then passes the spirit of a lady parachutist hanging from the tree]
Norman Babcock: Hi! How's it hanging?
Parachutist Ghost: Oh, haven't heard that one before.
[as Norman arrives at school we see he's an outcast and the other students avoid him, when he gets to his locker he sees the word 'FREAK' written on it, he opens his locker and gets a cloth to wipe the word off, just then he notices another kid across the hallway is wiping off the word 'FATTY' from his locker, then the school bullies come up to Norman]
Alvin: Hey! Hey, ghost jerk, you know what?
Norman Babcock: What do you want, Alvin?
Alvin: Why don't you see some more ghosts? Goober!
[Alvin's gang laughs]
Alvin: Hey. Hey, Norman...
[Alvin squats the fly buzzing around them against a locker and kills it]
Alvin: Talk to that!
[his gang laughs again]
Alvin: Oh! That's so Alvin! Right?
[turning to his gang of friends]
Alvin: That was good, right?
[he then pushes Norman out of the way and starts walking off with his gang]
Norman Babcock: Flies don't talk.
[in drama class we see the drama teacher shouting at the children, who are all dressed up in costume]
Mrs. Henscher: Ah! You stink of illiteracy! Pilgrims! Don't any of your know anything about the history of this town?!
[Mrs. Henscher lets out a frustrated sigh]
Mrs. Henscher: Puritans were strict and devout settlers who came here to bloom. A place without sin!
[one of the students, dressed in a stereotypical witch's costume, puts up her hand up]
Mrs. Henscher: Oh, what is it now, Salma?
Salma: Why is the witch always a hideous old crow with a pointy hat and a broomstick? I don't believe it's historically accurate, Mrs. Henscher.
Mrs. Henscher: It's not supposed to be! It's supposed to sell postcards and keychains. So, let's try it again! Top of page six, Norman!
[Norman, who's dressed as a pilgrim, starts reading from his script]
Norman Babcock: The founding fathers of Blithe Hollow discovered and evil witch amongst them...
Mrs. Henscher: No! No, Norman! With gusto! Like this!
[she starts saying the lines over dramatically]
Mrs. Henscher: They put her on trial and hanged her! But the vengeful witch cursed her accusers, seven of them in all, to die a horrible and gruesome death and rise from their graves as the living dead! Their souls...their souls doomed to an eternity of damnation!
[Norman looks at her not sure what to do]
Mrs. Henscher: Now, I want you to try that again, but with conviction! My reputation is at stake here, and I won't have this turn out like that wretched...
[at that moment Norman starts seeing the class-stage begin to burn and ghostly faces appear all around him, then Mrs. Henscher yells at him]
Mrs. Henscher: Norman! Are you listening to me, boy?!
[the other kids laugh at Norman]
Norman Babcock: Sorry, Mrs. Henscher.
Mrs. Henscher: So am I. Now, unless there's any other issues, let us resume. They put her on trial and hanged her.
[just then Alvin sneaks up behind Norman and ties a rope round Alvin and Neil's tree costume]
Neil: Ooh, this is my moment.
[as Neil steps forward, Norman gets pulled by the rope around him and falls over, the other kids laugh again with Mrs. Henscher screaming at them]
[Neil runs up to Norman as he walks home]
Neil: Norman, wait up!
Norman Babcock: I keep telling you, Neil, I...I like to be alone.
Neil: So do I! Let's do it together!
[Norman doesn't answer; referring to Alvin and his gang of bullies]
Neil: You shouldn't let them get you down. They always do stuff like that to me,
Norman Babcock: Why?
Neil: Because I'm fat, and my allergies make my eyes leak, and I sweat when I walk too fast, and I have a lunch box with a kitten on it. Ooh, and I have irritable bowel syndrome. I guess there's a whole bunch of stuff.
Norman Babcock: Doesn't it bother you?
Neil: Nah. You can't stop bullying, it's part of human nature. If you were bigger and more stupid, you'd probably be a bully too. It's called, survival of the thickest.
[as they continue to walk home, they pass a bronze statue of a witch]
Mr. Prenderghast: Psst!
[whispering to Norman]
Neil: That statue just psst at us!
[they see a man hiding behind the statue]
Mr. Prenderghast: Do you know who I am?
Neil: The weird stinky old bum, who lives up the hill?
Mr. Prenderghast: I was asking him!
[points to Norman]
Norman Babcock: Yeah. I know. I was told not to talk to you. Sorry.
Mr. Prenderghast: You know why you're not supposed to talk to me?
[Norman shakes his head]
Mr. Prenderghast: I can see ghosts too! And I know that's not all you've been seeing lately, is it? Bad omens, things you can't quite explain. Strange faces appearing through the veil! And I'll bet no one told you about the witch's curse, did they?
[he takes Norman closer to the witch's statue]
Norman Babcock: Actually, we're learning about it in school.
Neil: Ooh! Ooh! I'm a tree!
[Prenderghast sighs with frustration]
Mr. Prenderghast: There's something you really need to know. It's the most important thing you will ever hear! The fate of everyone depends on it. Now listen close, the witch's curse is real and you're the one who has to stop it! You've gotta use your gift...of talking to the dead!
[suddenly Prenderghast starts coughing]
Mr. Prenderghast: Because if you don't, the witch will...
[he carries on coughing and choking]
Mr. Prenderghast: Oh! Oh! This is the most...you've gotta...
[he coughs again]
Mr. Prenderghast: You've gotta...you've...
[he keeps choking and coughing, suddenly Neil throws something hard at his face]
Neil: Leave him alone!
[Prenderghast turns in anger at Neil]
Neil: Don't make me throw this humus! It's spicey!
[Prenderghast moves back in fear and turns to Norman]
Mr. Prenderghast: This ain't done with. You'll see it soon enough. Watch for the sign.
[he laughs then turns and goes away]
Neil: Jeez, what a dirty old creep?
Norman Babcock: He's my uncle.
[Norman turns and starts to walk off]
Neil: So, is it true?
Norman Babcock:What?
Neil: Can you see ghosts, like, everywhere, all the time?
Norman Babcock: Uh...yeah.
Neil: Awesome! Ooh! Ooh! Do you think you could see my dog, Pug? He was ran over by an animal rescue van. Tragic and ironic. We buried him in the yard. Could you see him?
Norman Babcock: Maybe.
Neil: Sweet! Come on!
[as Neil takes Norman over to his house, Neil's older brother is in the driveway, changing oil in his van]
Mitch: Neil, is that you?
Neil: Hey, Mitch. We're gonna go play with the dead dog in the garden, and we're not even gonna have to dig him out first.
[Mitch hits head on the car as comes up from underneath it]
Mitch: What?! What did you say?
[Mitch notices Norman and says quietly to Neil]
Mitch: Neil, isn't he that weird kid? You know?
[mocking Norman]
Mitch: Look at me, ooh! I'm talking to ghosts so people will pay attention to me!
Neil: Can you stop doing that? It's kinda stupid.
Mitch: Now, listen to me. You don't need to be hanging out with weird people, okay? That's a tip.
Neil: Don't blow this for me, Mitch. This one's not weird. He talks to dead people.
[Neil turns and takes Norman to his backyard]
[Neil takes Norman to his backyard where hid dog is buried]
Neil: He's around here somewhere. So, does everyone come back as a ghost?
Norman Babcock: No. My Grandma told me it's usually people who still have stuff to figure out, or sometimes it's the ones who died suddenly or in a bad way.
[suddenly Norman hears a dog barking]
Norman Babcock: Pug?
Neil: Is he there? How does he look?
[Norman sees that the dog's body is split in half]
Norman Babcock: Uh...good. He's happy to see you.
[to the spirit of his dead dog]
Neil: Who's a good boy, huh? Good boy!
[the dog's spirit keeps barking in excitement and running towards Neil, who can't see him]
Neil: Can he feel if I pet him?
Norman Babcock: Yeah, I guess.
[Neil turns and starts kissing where he thinks his dog's chin is]
Norman Babcock: Uh...that's not his chin.
[we see Neil has been kissing his dog's butt, Neil then picks up a stick and throws it for his dog to fetch]
Neil: Go fetch it!
Norman Babcock: He can't fetch it, you know?
Neil: Yeah, well, it's still fun.
[Neil keeps playing fetch with his dead dog and Norma sits to watch them]
Neil: Go get it, Bob! Good boy!
[Norman pick up the stick that Neil just threw for his dead dog]
Neil: Why don't you try?
Norman Babcock: Actually, I don't really...um...
[he holds the stick up so Neil can take it back]
Neil: No! No! It's fun. Try it!
[Norman keeps holding the stick up for Neil to take]
Neil: No, I don't want to.
Norman Babcock: You throw it.
Neil: No. it's okay. You can throw it.
Norman Babcock: I don't....
Neil: Come on, it's really fun.
[Neil forces Norman to stand, Norman not sure what to do with the stick, turns to Neil]
Norman Babcock: Here, you go first.
Neil: No, you try it. I already went, like, fifty times.
Norman Babcock: Okay, what do I do?
Neil: You...you get the stick, you pull back and you throw it.
[Norman pulls back hard and throws the stick, knocking Neil down in the process]
Norman Babcock: Neil? Sorry!
[Neil sits up, holding a stick between his mouth]
Neil: I fetched stick.
[they both laugh]
[Prenderghast returns to his home and enters his bedroom]
Mr. Prenderghast: I'll show him and that scary little fat kid! Doesn't he realize, we're runnin' out of...!
[as he grabs a book he suddenly keels over and dies with the book still in his hands, his spirit starts to rise and leave his body, but suddenly Prenderghast breathes and gets up]
Mr. Prenderghast: No! Not yet! Not yet!
[he suddenly keels over and dies again, still holding the book in his hands, his spirit leaves his body, he hovers over his dead body now realizing he's a ghost]
Mr. Prenderghast: Oh, nuts!
[the night of the school play and the kids are giving their performances, when suddenly Norman is swept into another vision]
Norman Babcock: Oh, no. Not again!
[Norman is in the middle of the woods and he starts hearing voices]
Blithe Hollow Townperson: This way! Over here!
[Norman steps back and his foot breaks a branch which makes a noise]
Blithe Hollow Townperson: There!
Norman Babcock: No!
Blithe Hollow Townperson: Witch!
[Norman, now frightened, starts running and then falls through space and gets caught by a tree who warns him]
Tree: The dead are coming!
[he then sees Neil's face hovering over him]
Neil: Hey, buddy. Are you okay?
[Norman starts screaming and then we see him standing on stage where he was before, he suddenly shouts]
Norman Babcock: The dead are coming!
[he runs off the stage and falls down, Norman's parents who are in the audience are shocked]
Sandra Babcock: Norman!
Mitch: Did he say the dead are coming?
Perry Babcock: No! No! No!
Norman Babcock: Yes! The tree told me!
[he looks behind him for the tree, but sees Neil standing on stage in his tree costume, everyone is shocked and Norman looks down in embarrassment]
[as Norman's father drives them home after the school play incident]
Perry Babcock: This is where it stops! It's one thing being a mental case in front of your family, but not the whole freakin' town! There's not gonna be any more talking to ghosts, or Grandma's, or...or what is it now?
Sandra Babcock: I think it's tree.
Perry Babcock: Aah! You are grounded! Do you hear me?
Norman Babcock: This is ridiculous. I wish everyone could see what I see. Didn't ask to be born this way.
[Perry gets out of the car]
Perry Babcock: Funny, neither did we.
[as Norman's father walks off]
Sandra Babcock: You know, sometimes people say things that seem mean, but they do it because they're afraid.
Norman Babcock: He's my dad. He shouldn't be afraid of me.
[Norman gets out of the car]
Sandra Babcock: He's not afraid of you. He's afraid for you.
[Norman looks sadly at his mother and walks off]
[Norman runs into the school bathroom, shuts himself in a stall, unaware that Alvin is in the next stall, Norman then sees the stall coming to life, the toilet shakes and overflows, the wall close in on him, Norman crawls in top of the toilet tank and sees the toilet seat flip open to reveal the ghost of Prenderghast]
Norman Babcock: You...you died?!
Mr. Prenderghast: Yeah! But I got unfinished business here.
[Prenderghast leaps from the bowl and floats before Norman]
Norman Babcock: Oh. Couldn't you use another stall?
Mr. Prenderghast: My ghost isn't going anywhere until I pass my duty to another. And that would be you!
Norman Babcock: Me? No, no, no! You must have it wrong.
Mr. Prenderghast: Oh, it's you alright! I've been holding back the witch's curse for years, but now I'm dead! It has to be you!
Norman Babcock: But I...I don't know what any of it means!
Mr. Prenderghast: It means, the past is coming back to haunt you! Time is running out. The anniversary of the witch's death is tonight. Her ghost is going to wake up, and when she does, she'll raise the dead.
[as Prenderghast's ghost disappears, Norman sees toilet papers come to life as hands that start coming towards him]
Mr. Prenderghast: Gotta keep her in her place.
Norman Babcock: But...but I'm just a kid! How am I supposed to stop it?!
[suddenly the hands go away and Prenderghast's ghost reappears]
Mr. Prenderghast: Read from the book at the spot the witch was buried.
Norman Babcock: What...what book?
Mr. Prenderghast: The one in my hands.
[Prenderghast holds out his hands, which are empty and Norman looks at him confused]
Mr. Prenderghast: Not these hands! My other hands! The me that's at home in my study, starting to smell a little funny. Get the book and read from it, before the sun sets tonight.
Norman Babcock: But...this...this is crazy!
Mr. Prenderghast: Do I look crazy to you?
[Prenderghast's ghost smiles as he toilet paper hangs off all over him]
Mr. Prenderghast: Tell me you'll do this?
Norman Babcock: I...I...
Mr. Prenderghast: Swear!
Norman Babcock: You...you mean like the F word?
Mr. Prenderghast: I mean, promise!
Norman Babcock: Okay! Okay! I...I promise.
Mr. Prenderghast: That'll do.
[Prenderghast's ghost starts to fade]
Norman Babcock: No! Mr. Prenderghast, wait! Sorry, kid, I'm done here. I'm free! I'm finally free!
[Prenderghast laughs and starts fading away]
Norman Babcock: Wait! No, you can't leave now! Please! I don't understand.
[suddenly Prenderghast's ghost explodes brightly, sending the stall door, and Alvin, across the bathroom; to Alvin]
Norman Babcock: Uh...yeah. You uh...might wanna give that a few minutes.
[Norman quickly flushes the toilet and runs out of the bathroom]
[as Neil sees Norman running out of the bathroom]
Neil: Norman?
[Neil sees Alvin coming out of the bathroom after Norman, he stops Alvin]
Neil: Hey, what's the big deal?
Alvin: Don't get your bra in a twist, fat boy. This has nothing to do with you, so keep out of my way.
Neil: Or what?
Alvin: Or uh...I'll punch you in boobs.
Neil: I don't have boobs. These are pectorals.
[suddenly Alvin punches Neil in the chest and goes after Norman]
Neil: Ow! My boobs!
[Alvin loses Norman at the school entrance, so he starts shouting]
Alvin: You're dead, freak show! Do you hear me? D-E-D! Dead! You're gonna....you're gonna be so dead that you're gonna have to talk to yourself when you're dead!
[we see Norman is hiding behind a tree, then he runs off]
[as Norman's parent's are getting ready to go out for the evening]
Perry Babcock: I really don't think we should be leaving him...
Sandra Babcock: Perry, you promised me a meal that someone else microwaved.
Perry Babcock: He's probably up there right now, fiddling with his Ouija, or his orbs, or whatever it is he's got up there! This is not good!
[Norman hears his parents leave, he paces nervously round his room, getting freaked out by all his zombie themed toys and posters, suddenly he gets a text message, his freaks out by the 'Halloween' ringtone, the message reads 'Come to the window', so Norman looks out the window and he freaks out as he sees a figure with a white mask, Neil pulls the mask off his face]
Neil: Wanna play some hockey?
Norman Babcock: You know, I've kind of got other things on my mind right now.
Neil: Is it all that walking dead stuff again?
Norman Babcock: Mr. Prenderghast appeared to me in the bathroom.
Neil: Ew!
Norman Babcock: No! His spirit! He says the witch's curse is real and I have to go up to graveyard and stop it, before the sun sets tonight.
Neil: So, you wanna come play a bit later?
Norman Babcock: Didn't you hear what I just said?
Neil: Yeah, but I thought my idea was the less likely to get us in.
Norman Babcock: Just go home, Neil. I'm better off on my own anyway.
Neil: But...
Norman Babcock: Go home!
[Norman slams shut his bedroom window, Neil turns away sadly]
[after Norman getting rid of Neil, the ghost of his grandmother appears in his room]
Grandma: Jeez! Who rattled your chain?
Norman Babcock: No one.
[Grandma moves to the window and sees Neil climbing over the garden fence]
Grandma: Hmm.
Norman Babcock: Dad says I'm not supposed to talk to you anymore, Grandma.
Grandma: Jackass! If I were a poltergeist, I'd throw something at his head.
[she starts floating around Norman's room]
Grandma: You know by rights, I'm supposed to be frolicking in paradise with your grandfather. But I'm not.
Norman Babcock: So why did you stay?
Grandma: I was never one for frolicking, but there's no cable or canasta up there either. Besides, I promised I'd always look out for you.
Norman Babcock: So it's your duty.
Grandma: Uh...in a manner of speaking.
Norman Babcock: And you'd do it no matter what.
Grandma: Of course!
Norman Babcock: Even if it was something really scary?
Grandma: There's nothing wrong with being scared, Norman. So long as you don't let it change who you are.
[she then disappears]
[Norman sneaks out of the house as Courtney is talking on the phone, and rides his bike to Prenderghast's house, along the way, he nearly runs over Alvin, who's trying to impress some girls with his break-dancing skills, Norman then arrives at Prenderghast's house and goes inside]
Norman Babcock: Hello? Mr. Prenderghast?
[using his cellphone light as a guide, Norman makes his way to Prenderghast's study, where he stumbles over Prenderghast's corpse gripping the book, Norman tries to get the book but as rigor mortis as set in on the corpse Norman has to wrestle with Prenderghast's body and eventually frees the book]
[after getting the book from Prenderghast's place, Norman finds the burial site where he sees 7 gravestones arranged in a circle, as thee sun starts setting Norman takes out the book]
Norman Babcock: Read from the book, stop the curse, go home and pretend this never happened.
[Norman opens the book and starts reading out loud]
Norman Babcock: Once upon a time, in a far off land there lives a king and a queen in a magnificent...castle?
[Norman suddenly realizes the book sounds like a fairy tale]
Norman Babcock: What? A fairy tale?
[suddenly Alvin appears and grabs the book from Norman]
Alvin: Ooh, what you got there geekyla?
Norman Babcock: No! Give it back!
Alvin: Oh, can't wait to see everybody's faces when they hear about this one!
[Norman tries to take the book back]
Norman Babcock: No! Don't! Alvin!
Alvin: Hey, nobody makes me miss out on a possible date with a girl that almost had some interest in talking to me! Yeah? Thought so! You got nothin' to say.
[Norman notices that time has ran out and the sun is setting]
Norman Babcock: Uh-oh!
Alvin: Damn straight, uh-oh! That's what happens when Alvin gets around here.
[as the sun sets, darkness starts spreading, Alvin is oblivious to all this as he continues to mock Norman]
Alvin: Uh-oh, is that, Alvin! Uh-oh, Alvin is gonna make me run home to mommy!
[Alvin suddenly notices the sky looking weird and looks up]
Alvin: Uh-oh! What is that?
[dark clouds, with green lightning, erupt over the cemetery, suddenly one-by-one the tombstones crack and their occupants awaken, the zombies circle Norman and Alvin]
[as the zombies circle Norman and Alvin, Norman takes Prenderghast's book and starts reading from it, hoping to stop them]
Norman Babcock: Once upon a time, in...in a far off...! Once upon a time, in a...!
Alvin: Make it stop, please!
Norman Babcock: It's not working!
[one of the zombies speaks out loud to Norman]
Zombie: Stop! You must stop!
Alvin: What? Norman, what are you doing?!
[Alvin starts to run off]
Alvin: I think I peed my pant!
Norman Babcock: Wait!
[Norman runs after Alvin and the zombies start to follow them]
[Neil is sat in front of the TV eating when the front door bell rings]
Mitch: Neil, Will you get the door?
Neil: I'm busy!
Mitch: Are you freeze framing mom's aerobics DVD again?
Neil: No!
[we see the TV screen as its freeze framing a woman doing aerobics, the doorbell goes again]
Mitch: Neil! Would it kill you to get off your butt and answer the door?!
Neil: Yeah...yeah...God!
[Courtney rings Neil's front door bell, thinking that Norman snuck out of the house to be with Neil]
Courtney: Oh, I'm gonna kill them!
[Courtney peeks in through the doors letter box slot]
Courtney: I know you're in there! Slumber party's over, dorks!
[suddenly Mitch opens the door, only wearing a towel]
Mitch: Um...can I help you?
[Courtney looks tongue tied at seeing Mitch close up wearing only a towel]
Courtney: Hell, yeah! Hmm...oh! I...sorry to bug you so late. Um...does uh...Neil live here?
Mitch: Yeah. He's my brother.
Courtney: Wow! That's great! Your brother and my brother, are like, best friends. I'm Courtney.
Mitch: Hey, Neil! Will you come here a minute? There's a girl asking for you!
[Neil pops his head through the living room door to take a look]
Courtney: Hey, there!
[in shock, Neil points to himself and mouths the word 'me?']
Courtney: How you doin', little guy?
Neil: Neil.
Courtney: Yeah! Neil! Do you know where Norman is? He kinda disappeared.
Neil: Oh, no...idea! I have no idea where he is. Sorry, bye!
Mitch: Woh! Neil! Better start talking, buddy.
Neil: I...I didn't really think he was serious about going up to old graveyard on his own.
Courtney: That's so Norman!
Mitch: Oh, man! That place is bad news! It's like a total slasher movie vibe. Why did he go up there?
Neil: I don't know! Maybe we should go look for him.
Mitch: I told you he was trouble.
[to Courtney]
Mitch: Sorry, but I did.
Courtney: No, it's fine. He sucks. But I gotta really make sure he doesn't, you know, die or anything tonight.
[suddenly she turns to Mitch and puts her hands on his bare chest]
Courtney: Will you help me? Please?
Mitch: Okay. I guess, I should uh...go get some clothes on.
[Mitch starts walking off]
Neil: Uh...is Norman in trouble?
[after they flee the burial ground, Alvin and Norman go inside Prenderghast's house]
Alvin: Are they gonna try eat our brains?!
Norman Babcock: I think you're safe.
Alvin: Oh, thank God!
[holding Prenderghast's book]
Norman Babcock: I don't get it! Why didn't it work?
[Norman opens the book and flips through the pages]
Norman Babcock: The story of Sleeping Beauty?! This doesn't make any sense!
[Norman goes to Prenderghast's study]
Alvin: Wait! Where you going?
[Norman walks towards Prenderghast's dead body]
Norman Babcock: Mr. Prenderghast, I don't understand! Just tell me what to do!
Alvin: Dude, what are you doing?!
Norman Babcock: He told me to read from the book to stop the curse! I thought it was like a spell or something, but...
[Norman goes to Prenderghast's clutterd desk and starts looking around the desk]
Norman Babcock: Come on! There has to be something!
Alvin: Do you really want me here, cause I've got a seriously early curfew.
[Norman picks up an old looking picture]
Norman Babcock: Seven victims.
Alvin: My mom gets really upset when I...
Norman Babcock: Seven. No!
[suddenly they hear the door being knocked down]
Alvin: Okay! Um...we gotta defend ourselves. We gotta shoot them in the head with like some sort of silver bullet or something!
Norman Babcock: Seven victims. Seven graves.
[Norman realizes the seven people in the picutre are the seven zombies]
Alvin: Norman, are you listening to me! We really gotta do something!
Norman Babcock: The witch's grave! It wasn't there! I was reading the book in the wrong place!
[suddenly the zombies breaks through the door]
Norman Babcock: Hide!
[as Mitch drives them to find Norman, Neil sits quitely as he watches Courtney flirt with Mitch]
Courtney: Do you use weights? Cause your deltoids are huge!
Mitch: I've never used deltoids in my life, I swear! You can test me.
[to himself]
Neil: Kill me, now!
[to Mitch]
Courtney: Thank you, for doing this, Mitch. He means an awful lot to me, you know. I love him like he was a brother.
Neil: He is your brother!
[they hear the noise of thunder and Mitch looks at the sky]
Mitch: Woh! Look at that sky!
[as Mitch is distracted by the sky, suddenly Norman and Alvin run in front of their as they try to get away from the zombies]
Neil: Look out!
Mitch: Oh, no!
[Mitch swerves the car and manages to avoid hitting Norman and Alvin]
Neil: That was Norman!
[then one of the zombies stands in the middle of the road, as Mitch tries to stop the car he hits the zombie in the process]
Mitch: Is everyone okay?
Neil and Courtney: No!
[after knocking down one of the zombies with his car, Mitch gets out of the car and walks up to the body lying still on the ground]
Mitch: Uh...hello, sir?
Courtney: Is he dead or what?
Mitch: I don't know. He's not moving.
[the zombie makes noise]
Mitch: He's still breathing!
Courtney: So he's okay?
[Mitch picks up the zombie by its head and suddenly the head snaps off its body]
Mitch: Uh...not exactly.
Courtney: What? What did you just say?
Mitch: Does anyone know uh...CPR or...?
[at that moment Norman and Alvin appear running towards them]
Norman Babcock: Run!
[Mitch looks down at the head in his hand and suddenly the zombie's eyes open, Mitch screams in terror and kicks the head, he runs back into the car and turns to Courtney]
Mitch: Did you see that?
Courtney: That was insane!
Mitch: I know, right? I kicked that like a hundred yards!
[Courtney turns to Norman sat in the back seat]
Courtney: Norman, what just happened?
Alvin: Zombies, I swear! Okay? We saw them burst out of their graves, for real!
[pointing to Norman]
Alvin: Just so you know, I totally saved his life. And I could totally save yours.
Courtney: Sorry, who are you?
[Norman notices the zombies are getting close to them]
Norman Babcock: Um...guys, maybe we should actually drive away now.
Mitch: Right!
[Mitch steps on it, unaware that the zombie leader has latched himself to the back of the van]
[as they are speeding away from the zombies unaware that one of them is latched to car]
Courtney: I knew something like this was gonna happen tonight!
Mitch: You did? Wow! Cause that zombie bit really threw me
[Courtney turns to Norman]
Courtney: Why did you have to go and get everyone involved in all your weird stuff?
Norman Babcock: Well, you weren't supposed to follow me, were you!
Neil: Sorry, my fault. When I'm nervous I get mouth diarrhea.
Alvin: Woh! Diarrhea!
Courtney: Oh, my gosh! I think I'm having an aneurysm! Oh, this is so typical of you!
Norman Babcock: No! You don't understand. I'm the only one who can stop this, Courtney!
Courtney: Oh, I understand! I understand that this is all getting completely out of...
[suddenly the zombie's hand crashes through into the car from the roof top]
Courtney: Hands!
[everyone screams]
Neil: What do we do?! What do we do?! Mitch?!
Mitch: I don't know! I don't know!
Neil: You're the oldest!
Mitch: Not mentally!
[as they are getting attacked by the lead zombie]
Courtney: Norman, how do we stop them?
Norman Babcock: I...I'm supposed to read from the book at the witch's grave!
Neil: We gotta go back to the graveyard?!
Norman Babcock: She wasn't buried with the others. I don't know where else to look!
Courtney: Well, you better think of something quick!
Neil: Oh! Oh! I have an idea!
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