- Looter: What the fuck are you doing here?
- Jason: What the fuck are you doing here?
- Looter: [holding TV] I'm just stealing shit. But you... what's a guy with a video camera doing in the women's dorm, huh?
- [last lines]
- Debra: Jason once said he thought he could help, maybe even save some lives. This is the last thing he downloaded before he died: a couple of hometown Joes who went out to shoot at targets. But that day, they used people. Dead people. You know, just for fun? There was one target that was different from the rest. A woman... tied by her hair to the branch of a tree. The boys had this one set up just for kicks. They got out their favorite 12 gauge and...
- [zombie's head is blown in half]
- Debra: Are we worth saving? You tell me.
- Jason: The camera can see. And what the camera sees, the audience will see.
- Tony Ravello: What fucking audience?
- Jason: There's always an audience for horror; believable horror. But who's gonna believe a mummy if his makeup's all unglued?
- Tony Ravello: Who's gonna believe a mummy in the first place?
- Andrew Maxwell: The problem doesn't seem to be that people are waking up dead, but that dead people are waking up.
- Debra: Jason always wanted to be a documentary filmmaker. But for his senior class project, he decided to try to make a horror film. That's what he was shooting on that first night, the night when... everything changed.
- Debra: [voiceover] It's funny. You spend so much time resenting your parents, separating yourself, building your own life. But as soon as the shit hits the fan, the only place you want to go is home.
- Debra: I'm just trying to get home too, okay? Like Mary. And I'm wondering why my boyfriend has a camera plastered to his face.
- Jason: Say who you are, Eliot.
- Eliot Stone: You just did. I'm Eliot.
- Jason: Tell us more.
- Eliot Stone: Eliot Stone, Harrisburg, PA. And I'm here with you fine people because... I don't know... I'd like to get home, too. It's on the way. I'm hoping you'll be so kind as to drop me off.
- Gordo Thorsen: Gordo Thorson, Danville, Pennsylvania.
- Tracy Thurman: Tracy Thurman. We're, uh... we're together.
- Gordo Thorsen: [hugging Tracy] Forever.
- Tracy Thurman: Uh, yeah. We'll see.
- Mary Dexter: [approaching Zombie Trooper] It's a cop. A state trooper.
- Gordo Thorsen: How do you know that?
- Mary Dexter: Oh, his hat. His hat... his stupid looking hat.
- Jason: [after running over three zombies] Mary, how do you feel about what just happened?
- Mary Dexter: [sobbing] How do you think I feel?
- Debra: [to Mary] They were already dead, okay? You didn't do anything wrong.
- Tony Ravello: Listen to me, unless you're Jesus fucking Christ, you don't stand up and walk around after you're dead!
- Andrew Maxwell: There will always be people like you, wanting to document, wanting to record some sort of diary.
- Jason: Me? You're the one who put the camera in my hands. You're the one who made me want to do this.
- Andrew Maxwell: Not this. This is a diary of cruelty. And in wartime, when the enemy can be marked as this son of a bitch or that son of a bitch, then cruelty... becomes justified.
- Andrew Maxwell: You're stuttering, Mr. Creed. Don't try to speak, just shoot. Shoot your picture. Shoot for as long as your hard drive holds out. As long as you have power.
- Debra: [voiceover] The more voices there are, the more spin there is. The truth becomes that much harder to find. In the end it's all just noise.
- [first lines]
- Police Officer: 628 Tremont. 6-2-8. Three dead. No, just the usual. Fuck. Usual. It's no big deal these days, right?
- Police Officer: Fucking shoots his wife and kid, and then eats the licorice. Sticks it in his mouth and blows his own brains out.
- Debra: [voiceover] We made a film - the one I'm going to show you now. Actually, Jason was the one who wanted to make it. Like that cameraman from Channel 10, he wanted to upload it so that people, you, could be told the truth. The film was shot with a Panasonic HDX-900 and an HBX-200. I did the final cut on Jason's laptop. I've added music occasionally for effect, hoping to scare you. You see, in addition to trying to tell you the truth, I am hoping to scare you so that maybe you'll wake up. Maybe you won't make any of the same mistakes that we made. Anyway, here it is, Jason Creed's The Death of Death.
- Jason: [to Ridley, who's playing a mummy] How many times have I told you? Dead things don't move fast. You're a corpse, for Christ's sakes. If you run that fast, your ankles are gonna snap off.
- Tracy Thurman: Can somebody please explain to me why girls in scary movies always have to, like, fall down and lose their shoes and shit? It's totally lame. And why do we always have to get our dresses torn off?
- Ridley Wilmott: Actually, I'm looking forward to that part.
- Tony Ravello: Stupid fucking mummy movie.
- Andrew Maxwell: With an underlying threat of social satire.
- Andrew Maxwell: [referring to flask] I'm running low. I'd like to make it to a state store before they all shut their doors forever. God, there's a terrible thought. A world where a gentleman can't buy a bottle of bourbon.
- Tracy Thurman: This is our fault. For panicking, for turning this into...
- Gordo Thorsen: Into what?
- Tony Ravello: Into something it's not. Into something more than this is. This is all just bullshit!
- Debra: [recording Jason] Tell us your name.
- Jason: Uh...
- Debra: Say it.
- Jason: Deb, come on.
- Debra: Say it.
- Jason: Give me a break. Jay... Jason. Jason Creed.
- Debra: You see how it feels to have a camera shoved in your face? To have to answer stupid questions when people are dying all around you? You see how it feels?
- Debra: [voice-over] It's interesting how quickly we find out what we're capable of becoming. Up until that night, we had lived predictable lives. Now... we would never be able to predict what might happen next. God had changed the rules on us. And surprisingly, we were playing along.
- Debra: [voiceover] Jason was compelled. I had never seen him like that before. What is it? What gets into our heads when we see something horrible? A horrible accident on the highway. Something keeps us from just driving on. Something holds us. But we don't stop to help. We stop to look.
- Samuel: [writing on blackboard after blowing up zombies] I'm Samuel. Hello.
- Newsreader: We've come here concerned about people crossing the border into our country. But that's not the problem anymore. The problem now is all those creatures crossing the border between life and death.
- Tony Ravello: What's with you all? How come you stuck around?
- Stranger: 'Cause we got the power. For the first time in our lives, we got the power 'cause everybody else left. All the folks without suntans.
- Tony Ravello: They'll be back, right? The Army? The National Guard? Somebody's gotta put all this shit back together.
- Stranger: [laughing] The National Guard. Kid, I'm in the National Guard.
- Police Chief: These attacks were carried out by a bunch of illegal immigrants who were mistakenly pronounced dead before the attacks took place. The only time they were dead was when my guys shot 'em.
- Debra: [voiceover] The media were lying to us, or the government was lying to them. They were trying to make it seem like everything was gonna be all right.
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