Quotes About Horror

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. First, the subjects of deepest dread (corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness) are identified with the disease. The disease itself becomes a metaphor. Then, in the name of the disease (that is, using it as a metaphor), that horror is imposed on other things. The disease becomes adjectival. Something is said to be disease-like, meaning that it is disgusting or ugly.

El vasto catálogo fotográfico de la miseria y la injusticia en el mundo entero le ha dado a cada cual determinada familiaridad con lo atroz, volviendo más ordinario lo horrible, haciéndolo familiar.

Compassion, stretched to its limits, is going numb. So runs the familiar diagnosis. But what is really being asked for here? That images of carnage be cut back to, say, once a week? More generally, that we work toward what I called for in On Photography: an ecology of images? There isn't going to be an ecology of images. No Committee of Guardians is going to ration horror, to keep fresh its ability to shock. And the horrors themselves are not going to abate.

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

some memories, too, might better be forgotten. didn't Obasan once say, "it is better to forget"? what purpose is served by hauling forth the jar of inedible food? if it is not seen, it does not horrify. what is past recall is past pain.

What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes.

When she wasn't leaking from one end, she was leaking from the other spewing white fluids from her mouth whenever she belched, as if she were auditioning for a remake of The Exorcist.

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke of fate he managed to come through the conflict with his body intact, he knew that his soul would not be so lucky.

Richard looked in horror at the piano. "Oh, no," Iris quickly assured him. "There will be no music. At least not that I know of. It's not a concert." Still, Richard's eyes widened with panic. Where was Winston and his little balls of cotton when he needed him? "You're frightening me, Miss Smythe-Smith.

It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

I have read H.P. Lovecraft, and I understand why he has influenced so much of horror writing. But because of his history, I wasn't a huge fan.

Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.

I do think that Lovecraft is very influential to the horror genre, but I also didn't want to ignore the fact that he's a major racist.

With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.