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Quotes About Horror

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
~ Christopher Lee
Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.
~ Jason Blum
I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.
~ J. Kenner, Complete Me
There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
~ Fede Alvarez
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
~ Victor LaValle
Horror movies are all about getting your attention you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
~ P. J. Soles
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
~ Margot Kidder
I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
~ Rain
When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
~ Cass van Krah
I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of improvisation and hearsay learning.
~ Mircea Eliade
Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when he wasn't sure where his next breath would come from. These horrifying times, he said, and his first emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that crosses your brain - then he was able to say, Okay,. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away.
~ Mitch Albom
And even now I wonder if creation is both too beautiful and too horrible for a handful of perceptive souls, and if the realisation of this opposing duality can offer them few options but to take leave of their own accord.
~ Mitch Cullin
Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary? They're only sad.
~ Nancy Farmer
More or less, I informed the eldritch horror it had no business existing with so much aggression, that I shoved it entirely out of reality.
~ Naomi Novik
you sit inside the soundproofed cocoon, hoping you aren't missing the footsteps of something coming at your back, and read textbooks or work on exercise sheets while disembodied voices whisper to you in whatever language you're studying that day. Usually they tell me horrible gory stories or describe my death in loving detail.
~ Naomi Novik
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
About halfway back to the fraternity house, they suddenly became aware of bright lights behind them. The two turned automatically. To their horror, a car had raced up over the curb and was heading directly at them!
~ Carolyn Keene
You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex.
~ Carrie Vaughn
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
~ Carson McCullers
We have our faith. We have our work. Our work is to bring God into this world. Look what has been done to this world and its people in this Godless century. It is a horror. Our task is to redeem this horror. We cannot redeem it by offering people ambiguity." "I try to redeem it through my art." "An artist redeems through his art?" He seemed astonished by that idea. "Acts redeem, Asher. Acts." "Art is also acts.
~ Chaim Potok
Charlaine Harris
~ Fuck a zombie!
But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.
~ Charlaine Harris
Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.
~ Raghava Lawrence
When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.
~ Mike Flanagan