ABSTRACT

In a key scene just prior to the climactic inter-clan showdown in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), hillbilly clan leader Papa Jupe (who bears more than a passing resemblance to real-life homicidal hippie Charles Manson) eats the burned flesh of the opposing family's deceased patriarch, Pop Carter, and delivers the following soliloquy:

You come out here, and stick your life in my face! Stick your fingers in my pie! That was a bad mistake. I thought you were smart and tough. You're stupid! You're nothin'. I'm gonna watch your goddamned car rust out, yes I will! I'll see the wind blow your dried-up seed away. I'll eat the heart of your stinkin' memory. I'll eat the brains of your kids' kids! I'm in, you're out!