# The Vampire Beast Craves Blood: Complete-sentence movie titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749 "2001-01-12T19:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/41 "2001-01-13T05:19:53Z")
You’re right, OrcaChow. brachy shouldn’t post with dead brain, and… Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. The Corn Is Green ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/42 "2001-01-13T06:58:20Z")
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Paint Your Wagon (You is implied) Does Zorro, the Gay Blade count? ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/43 "2001-01-13T08:19:31Z")
_Ernest Needs A Kidney White Men Can’t Hump You’ve Got Male I’ll Do Anyone What About Boob? Inspect Her Gadget Wet Dreams May Cum Honey, I Shrunk Your Clit Play it to the Boner I Know What You Did Up The Bummer There’s Something In and Out of Mary Diddle-her on the Roof Spray it Forward_ I’m pretty sure none of these are repeats. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/44 "2001-01-13T08:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brachyrhynchos \* > **Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things** I’ve never seen the movie, but my friend and I invariably show it to one another _every_ time we go into the video store. Hilarity ensues. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/45 "2001-01-13T16:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas > \*\* This is not a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/46 "2001-01-13T16:43:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brachyrhynchos \* > \*\* > Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. > \*\* Surreal and bizarre, this is one of my favorite “strange” movies. How about, Tie me up! Tie me down! ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/47 "2001-01-13T18:31:12Z")
Since when does a sentence have to have an object? Don’t you all remember junior high English class. Take, for example, “My car runs well.” It is a complete subject, but lacks an object. Also, imperative sentences obviously qualify, even though they don’t necessarily have stated subjects. The shortest title that could therefore qualify would be _Go_, depending on whether or not you take it as a command. _How Green was my Valley_ indeed is a sentence, if you take it is a question. _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_ is **not**. It has a subject and verb, sure, which qualifies it as a _clause_, not a sentence. A sentence must be an independent clause, while the word “How” in that title makes it a dependent clause. And for my contribution: _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?_ ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/48 "2001-01-13T18:40:22Z")
And who could forget [ul][li]Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood[/ul][/li]May I hijack this (somewhat) and ask about T.V. shows? [ul][li]Are You Being Served?[/li][li]Parker Lewis Can’t Lose[/li][li]Joanie Loves Chachi[/li]Who’s the Boss?[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/49 "2001-01-13T18:50:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Since when does a sentence have to have an object? > \*\* I don’t think anybody believes a complete sentence has to have an object, that is just the way the rules for this little exercise were put forward by **Danimal**. Though really, if we don’t insist on an explicit subject, verb, and object I don’t think such titles would be rare at all. **scratch** , I tried _Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood_ earlier and it was correctly pointed out that the subject in implied. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/50 "2001-01-13T18:54:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brachyrhynchos \* > \*\* > Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. > \*\* Surreal and bizarre, this is one of my favorite “strange” movies. I’ve **seen** this movie! From 1972, and I believe the Bob Clark who directed later directed Porky’s and A Christmas Story! ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/51 "2001-01-13T19:00:12Z")
Damit, **Danimal** , you beat me to it. In the same breath I was going to mention my favorite anti-Grateful Dead song, _Bring Me The Head Of Jerry Garcia_ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/52 "2001-01-13T19:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > > I don’t think anybody believes a complete sentence has to have an object, that is just the way the rules for this little exercise were put forward by **Danimal**. > > Though really, if we don’t insist on an explicit subject, verb, and object I don’t think such titles would be rare at all. Nothing wrong with an implied subject as far as I (and any grammarian) is concerned. If I say “Stop!” that’s a sentence, short as it may be. 🙂 My submission: Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/53 "2001-01-13T19:56:02Z")
Again, it isn’t that an implied subject or an absent object do not make for complete sentences, it is just that they don’t fit the sentence structure requested in the original post. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/54 "2001-01-14T08:59:25Z")
_I Want To Live!_ _You Can Count On Me_ _I Never Sang For My Father_ _You’ll Never Get Rich_ _Men Are Such Fools_ _A Lion Is In The Streets_ _You Can’t Get Away With Murder_ _Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner_ _She Wore A Yellow Ribbon_ ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/55 "2001-01-14T13:29:14Z")
Life is Beautiful The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain I Come In Peace A Fish Called Wanda (?) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/56 "2001-01-17T21:24:34Z")
Wanda and Hill/Mountain have no verbs. Nice phrases, though. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/57 "2001-01-17T21:35:52Z")
Get Carter I Confess ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/58 "2001-01-17T22:11:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Wanda and Hill/Mountain have no verbs. Nice phrases, though. \*\* It all depends on how far you’re willing to stretch reality. Perhaps there was a fish who SUMMONED Wanda. A fish called Wanda. Wanda replied “yes, my love?” The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain. Perhaps Who was the guy’s name, as in: The Englishman Benny Hill Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain. Perhaps I should take a nap. (disclaimer: the above post is a feeble attempt at humor, and even though I can see I failed miserably, I’m posting it anyway just because. Don’t correct me, because idiocy is the whole intent of the post: I know it’s incorrect) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/59 "2001-01-17T22:27:20Z")
Creative, very creative. Enjoy the nap. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749/60 "2001-01-18T12:26:11Z")
I got one. [Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0067980) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vampire-beast-craves-blood-complete-sentence-movie-titles/49749.md?page=4)