Quotes About Horror

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

I think I've covered every other genre. The truth is, I'm a horror fan myself. When I started in this business, horror wasn't cool. But it's cool now. Horror attracts A-list talent. That wasn't the case when I started.

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to sound really weird, but I think it started with fairy tales.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.

Cât de oribil, fantastic, incredibil poate s? fie", spunea Chamberlain..., "c? trebuie s? s?p?m tranÈ™ee È™i s? prob?m m??ti de gaze aici din cauza unei certe dintr-o È›ar? îndep?rtat?, între oameni despre care nu È™tim nimic." Cehoslovacia era în mod clar mai departe ca India, Africa de Sud sau Australia pe harta mental? a poporului britanic...

Black is a good color anytime you're flinging around blood.

I ride the Hog up winding roads into the hinterlands of Benedict Canyon to a Gothic-style mansion right out of a thirties Universal horror movie. Dr. Frankenstein's summer home, or where a friendly neighbor chains up Lyle Talbot during the full moon. Even the name Lisa Thivierge is living under—Janet Lawton—is a gag: the name of the ingenue in the old Ed Wood movie Bride of the Monster. I like Thivierge already.

He leaped, shrieking, off the bed, and sprang at me, clasping my throat with his horrid hands, bearing me backwards on to the floor; I felt his breath mingle with mine * * * and then God, in His mercy, sent oblivion.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Dear Lord, The Ripper walks the earth.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? Here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use it as a source in your own essay." Sydney had been torn between horror and hysterics when she told me. "I took 'primary source' to a whole new level!" Honestly, it was a wonder we'd gotten by for so long without Angeline. Life must have been so boring before her.