Book of Blood (2009)

Paul Blair: Reg Fuller

Quotes 

• Reg Fuller : [looking at haunted house]  Why is it these places always look so...

  Mary Florescu : Ordinary?

• Mary Florescu : [entering Janie's room]  According to the parents, Janie was seriously into sex and death. Used to bring her friends up here for seances.

  Reg Fuller : Voodoo and blowjobs. They grow up so fast these days.

• Mary Florescu : [referring to Simon]  His brother was killed in a car accident. Flipped his pick-up into a ditch, went through the windscreen head-first, snapped his neck. Simon saw it happen.

  Reg Fuller : What do you mean he saw it?

  Mary Florescu : He walked into the kitchen one night, told his parents point-blank "Stevie's dead. Truck crashed." A moment later the police called. When his parents got to the scene, it was exactly as he described it. There's something about him, Reg.

  Reg Fuller : Yeah, it's called being great looking.

  Mary Florescu : He knew I was going to have that flat the other night.

  Reg Fuller : I suppose a coincidence is too obvious an explanation?

• Mary Florescu : [walking around house]  The owners moved out in a hurry after their daughter was murdered. Place has been on the market ever since. It was built in the early 1900s, then that guy J.D. Tollington bought the place during the Depression.

  Reg Fuller : [looking at an old newspaper clipping of Tollington]  Snake old man, huh?

  Mary Florescu : Claimed he could talk to the dead. People came from all over Europe to see him. He used to entertain the rich and the famous right upstairs here. Very spooky goings on apparently. Story goes during one session he was interrupted by some invisible hand clapsed over his mouth; so cold it left an impression on his skin like a moustache. The proof's in his autopsy. Suddenly, he was thrown against the wall so hard shards of his broken bones pierced his lungs and he choked on his own blood.

  Reg Fuller : Are you making this up?

  Mary Florescu : It all happened right up here. Whatever did it to Tollington scribbled a message on the closet doors. In blood. "Don't mock us".

• Reg Fuller : What do you think? That house. It's perfect for another book, right?

  Mary Florescu : I suppose.

  Reg Fuller : [sarcastically]  Excuse me. I'm struck by a blinding bus of enthusiasm.

  Mary Florescu : Half my fans think they're reading fiction for Christ's sake.

  Reg Fuller : You mean it's not?

  [chuckles] 

• Reg Fuller : Listen.

  Mary Florescu : I don't hear anything.

  Reg Fuller : That's right. I haven't seen one fly, one spider, one ant even, anywhere. Have you?

  [Mary shakes her head] 

  Reg Fuller : It's like the place is being shunned.

• Reg Fuller : [referring to Simon]  What's he bringing to the party?

  Mary Florescu : If there's even the slightest chance he can help us to open this house up, I'm going to encourage it.

  Reg Fuller : Yeah. Just be careful the house isn't the only thing he opens up.

• Reg Fuller : I think we should get out of here.

  Mary Florescu : You've got to be kidding!

  Reg Fuller : [holding up camera]  We have got enough here.

  Mary Florescu : Reg, we've never seen anything like this before.

  Reg Fuller : That's what I mean. This is... I don't know what this is.

  Mary Florescu : I think it's him. He's the one making this happen. He's our lightning rod.

  Reg Fuller : Okay, but I think we should leave before we get fucking electrocuted!

• Simon McNeal : I'm not a fraud.

  Reg Fuller : Get the fuck out of here.

  Simon McNeal : You! You don't understand, and you never will. Mary, I'm supposed to be here. This house - it wants me. It's chosen me. Me!

  Mary Florescu : It's always about you, isn't it? Always you.

  Simon McNeal : Yes! It's about me! I told you I had a gift, and it was taken away. But I've got it back now. I've got it back, and I'm not going to let it get taken away again. So I'm going to prove it to you. I'm going to prove it once and for all.

  [takes off jacket and walks upstairs] 

  Mary Florescu : You can stop now, Simon.

  [Simon takes off his shirt to reveal his bruised body] 

  Mary Florescu : Oh, please.

  Simon McNeal : When I'm through, you're gonna beg to have my story, and it's going to be bigger than any book you've ever written. Do you know why? Because it's all true.