Creepshow (1982)
Fritz Weaver: Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
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Quotes
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Charlie Gereson : [Professor Stanley tells Charlie about the creature in the crate] Pretty far out, Professor Stanley...
Professor Dexter Stanley : It's true! It's true - I swear it's true! We got to get Campus Security...
Charlie Gereson : [Charlie cuts him off] Campus Security's no good! If I'm having trouble swallowing this one, what the fuck are THEY going to think?
Professor Dexter Stanley : [calming down] ... I don't know... what they'd think...
Charlie Gereson : They'd think you'd been off on a hell of a toot. No, they'd think we'd BOTH been off on a hell of a toot, and got to seeing Tasmanian devils instead of pink elephants.
Charlie Gereson : [Charlie decides to go downstairs to investigate] I think I'll just go down and see how the land lays...
Professor Dexter Stanley : [in a panic] It may be OUT!
Charlie Gereson : [complacent] Oh, I uh - I doubt that.
Professor Dexter Stanley : CHARLIE!
Charlie Gereson : Be right back, Professor Stanley!
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Professor Dexter Stanley : Two people are dead, and I could be blamed. I know that's a terrible consideration to have at a time like this, but -
[Henry hands him a drink and he swallows it one gulp]
Henry Northrup : Good God! Last time I saw someone do that was in the movies!
Professor Dexter Stanley : It could mean my ass, Henry, it wasn't me! It was that - that thing in the crate! And I don't even know what it was!
[giggles hysterically]
Henry Northrup : What two people? Who is dead?
Professor Dexter Stanley : Mike the janitor at Amberson Hall, and Charlie Gereson. He wanted to measure the bite marks, Henry. I guess he got his chance!
[giggles]
Professor Dexter Stanley : I certainly guess he did!