Creepshow (1982)

Tom Atkins: Stan (segments "Prologue", "Epilogue")

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• [Opening; Prologue: Stan is scolding Billy for buying and reading "Creepshow" comic books behind his back] 

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : I told you before, I didn't want you to read this crap! I never saw such rotten crap in my life! Where do you get this shit? Who sells it to you, anyway? I'm talking to you, young man! You wanna answer me when I'm talking to you! You remember who puts the frigging bread on the table around here, don't you?

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : Stan, don't be too hard on him. All the kids read 'em.

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : Well, my boy isn't all the kids! Wanna know where this is going, Billy? In the garbage! Right into the frigging garbage! Now, you got any smart mouth about that?

  [thunder crashes] 

  Billy (segments "Prologue" : [gets very angry]  I don't see how it's any worse than the books you keep in your dresser! Those ones under your underwear. Those sex books!

  [Stan, offended by this, violently slaps Billy in the face] 

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : Stan! You didn't have to...

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : Hit him? Not only do I find out he's reading this crap, he's a goddamn little snoop as well!

  Billy (segments "Prologue" : [screams]  No, it wasn't like that! You asked for me to get your cufflinks! It was on Sunday!

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : The windows are open downstairs. I'd better go down and close them or the rain will get in.

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : No, I'll do it. I got some garbage I want to throw away.

  Billy (segments "Prologue" : Daddy, please don't throw it away. I'm sorry.

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : The next time, young man, I find you with a worthless piece of shit like this again, you won't sit down for a week, buddy boy! Remember that! Tuck in!

• Stan (segments "Prologue" : [last words]  No... No...

  Billy (segments "Prologue" : [jabbing a voodoo doll with a pin]  I'll teach you to throw away my comic books. Ready for another shot, dad?

• Stan (segments "Prologue" : That takes care of that.

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : [sighs]  Stan, don't you think you were... a little hard on him?

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : [pours some beer in a glass]  You see that crap? All that horror crap? Things coming out of crates and eating people? Dead people coming back to life? People turning into weeds, for Christ's sake?

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : Well, yes I did, but...

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : [cuts her off]  Well, do you want him reading that stuff?

  Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" : [sighs]  Well, no but...

  Stan (segments "Prologue" : All right, then! I took care of it. That's why God made fathers, babe. That's why God made fathers.