Quotes About Suspense

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

There's always something really bad that happens in 'Stranger Things,' I think the more fun we're having at the beginning, the higher the drop.

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.

Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft.

maybe it explodes. No reason to think it will, except for the way a lifetime of consuming fiction makes me associate countdowns with things exploding.

There are worse things than death in this town and they're usually standing a few inches behind you, ready to reach out and grab you when you least expect it.

Garry Disher (Australia) The Dragon Man Kittyhawk Down Snapshot Chain of Evidence Blood Moon Wyatt Whispering Death Port Vila Blues

Magdalen Nabb (Italy) Death of an Englishman Death of a Dutchman Death in Springtime Death in Autumn The Marshal and the Madwoman The Marshal and the Murderer The Marshal's Own Case The Marshal Makes His Report The Marshal at the Villa Torrini Property of Blood Some Bitter Taste The Innocent Vita Nuova

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

gas. I could look it up and get back to you, if you like.

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the original 'Omen' - and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.

There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.

What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.