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Quotes About Horror

The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.
~ Amy Garvey
Five guys?" Medina asked, horrified. "Where'd they all fit?" Cotton shrugged. "Well, we all worked in porn, so sometimes up each other's asses. But once you quit the business, you pay extra rent for that single bed, you know?
~ Amy Lane
Doveva essere nato allora il suo odio per i materiali e le forme innaturali, le gabbie architettoniche degli elementi. Secondo lui l'origine di quasi tutto l'orrore del mondo era nella civiltà industriale, che aveva brutalizzato lo spazio e distrutto i ritmi e gli equilibri complessi della vita per adattarli a quelli delle macchine.
~ Andrea De Carlo
They tied them up and forced them to watch as each was ultimately stabbed repeatedly or shot, the last victim, according to the police, being Cici Riorden, Paul's new, young wife, and left cryptic symbols carved into their victims' bodies.
~ Andrew Gross
When fear is allowed to flourish in its dark and lonely medium, then any evil that can be conceived by the fearful imagination will emerge.
~ Andrew J. Robinson
In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
~ Chuck Hogan
I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.
~ Jessica Stroup
If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.
~ Bindi Irwin
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
~ Dan Chaon
I'll watch something like 'Paranormal Activity,' 'The Shining,' or 'Rosemary's Baby,' and I love them, but then I watch 'The People Under the Stairs' or 'Candyman,' and they freak me out. It's weird because I don't where the line is. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I should watch and what I shouldn't.
~ Lucy Davis
With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they asked me, and then I checked the show out and thought it was very well done.
~ John Cho
If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.
~ Timothy Dalton
In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we don't have that, and horror is a place you can be immersed in it.
~ Robert Eggers
Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
~ Abraham Zapruder
It is pitiful working in the industry and I see the flaws all the time. Though, if I have to watch something, then I prefer either horror or comedy because I don't know how those genres really work.
~ Victor Banerjee
I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.
~ Chris Gibson
Horrific things should be presented as horrific.
~ Jeremy Podeswa
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
~ Ethel Rosenberg
I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream.
~ Sean Astin
I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
~ Benjamin Percy
'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.
~ Brad Anderson
Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.
~ Bonnie Hammer
I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.
~ Ari Aster
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
~ Helen Mirren