Carnival of Fear: Closed for the Season (2010)

Joe Unger: The Carny

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• The Carny : You know, I'm not sayin' that rides are only for the dumb or insane, but I am sayin' they're only for the insanely dumb.

• The Carny : All stories tell the truth! But it's just words, not facts. Your story stopped being real the moment you met James, and your story became his story. Or a few minutes ago, when you first saw me, that's just a story now. It's not still happening.

• The Carny : There's nothing alive here except stories. After something happens, that's all there is. The stories are the only truth that can still be experienced.

• James : Where'd she go?

  The Carny : How should I know? I was too busy eating you to notice.

• The Carny : Do you really remember what happened, or do you just remember the story that you've told over and over again about it ever since?

• The Carny : Let's go for a ride.

  [the Carny tries to force Kristy into the car] 

  Kristy : It can't go anywhere.

  The Carny : You know that's not true. This is how you got here. If it can't go anywhere, then which anywhere did you come from?

• James : So what do we do after this?

  The Carny : Well, there's plenty of things that need to be done around here. We just move on and do 'em.

  James : Until?

  The Carny : Until they're done.

• James : Go jump back in the lake where you belong.

  The Carny : We're all where we belong right now, James.

• The Carny : There's no tellin' what'll happen to her on her own. Did you ever stop to think that whatever's happening to her alone will happen to you both together?

• The Carny : Be aroused and amused, be confused and abused, but you'll laugh yourself silly in the funhouse!

• The Carny : What is the matter with you? Don't you have eyes? It looks like you got eyes! But if they're not working, maybe I can find the appropriate rusty implement.

• The Carny : This is a pitching game! You have played the great American sport, haven't you?

  James : Actually, I have, and I'm pretty good at it.

  The Carny : Well, you're old enough now not to listen when a guy talks about himself like that, aren't you, sweetie?

  Kristy : I don't fall for anything you say about yourself.

  The Carny : Well, I'm not a man. Not anymore, anyway, but thank you very much... for rubbin' it in. I'm sorry I don't have salt to pour in my lonely wounds.