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Quotes About Horror

Not for the first time, Aidan reflected that those titillated by horror were least likely to have ever experienced it personally.
~ Steven Barnes
I think you need to see parts one, two, and three of 'The Omen.' And then just skip the ending of number three - it's so bad it makes me want to put my foot through the TV.
~ Tobias Forge
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
~ Paul Bowles
I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.
~ Dylan McDermott
The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.
~ Tyler Blackburn
I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like slasher horror... psychological horror like 'The Shining' - really good stuff!
~ Mark Pellegrino
I don't personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.
~ Peter Stormare
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
~ Alexandre Aja
In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
~ Alexandre Aja
I'm not a big slasher film fan.
~ David Naughton
I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.
~ Asa Butterfield
I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
~ Henry Selick
I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies.
~ Ken Marino
I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more.
~ Paul Giamatti
Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s.
~ Mike Flanagan
I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don't want to be scared. I don't know why, but I'm one of those people who gets frightened and can't go to sleep.
~ Callum Turner
As a person who keeps away from horror flicks for fear of losing sleep over it - not just for days but months together - Avunu' was a great experience for me.
~ Shamna Kasim
I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents' room because I would be so scared.
~ Jessica Rothe
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.
~ James Dashner
I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
~ Parker Posey
The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.
~ Rob Manuel
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
~ Sergio Aragones
The first time I ever saw a horror movie, I think I was in middle school, and we watched 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and 'It' at a slumber party.
~ Jessica Rothe