You’ve got to love Stacie Ponder…one of AMC Monsterfest’s biggest new voices keeps pumping out the interesting stuff, and this time, she’s got a great piece on some of the great closing lines. From Halloween’s “It was the Boogeyman” to Friday the 13th’s “He’s still out there!”, there’s lots of good ones on her list, even some slightly lesser known stuff like Session 9.

But of course, I’m not just here to kiss Stacie Ponder’s tukhus—I think she’s missed a couple good ones, and so, I’m going to be nice enough to fill in her list, and cover her catastrophic losses.

You can thank me later, Stacie.

Evil Dead II – “For God’s Sake, how do you stop it?” Not QUITE a closing line, but it’s the last coherent thing Ash gets out before winding up in the cut-rate Renaissance Faire that is the Kandarian Castle. It’s a good closer to the entire movie, where a whole lot of strange things happened, and everything focused on stopping it. How DO you stop these things surging out of the basement or chasing you through the woods?

Army of Darkness – “Hail to the king, baby.” The perfect summation of a snarky badass moron in his natural element, you can’t beat that sheer testosterone burst.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula – “Give me peace”. Simple. Stark. Chilling, in its way—this line encompasses so many thoughts and concepts at once that its sheer brevity becomes frightening in itself.

Unbreakable – “They called me Mr. Glass.” Okay, sure…maybe nothing M. Night does can ever truly be called horror, but you’ve got to admit, when you finally found that little snippet out you too felt your eyes widen a bit as you got a burst of M. Night in his element—the twist.

The Ring – “What about the person we show it to? What happens to them?” There are few things in life so frightening as being in at the death of something; it underlines your own mortality and also calls into question the concept of witness as accessory. Are you responsible because you saw and didn’t try to stop? And the thought of being the one responsible for a catastrophe like unleashing the killer Samara tape on an unsuspecting world to save your own skin can’t help but be frightening.

There are of course plenty more, but these are just a few of them. Go out and find your own killer last lines—bring them here, if you’re so inclined. Make a last line for the ages.

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