Quotes About Horror

Victims' heads were nailed to trees in the forest as a warning

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

Any show that has 'party non-invite' as its central conflict drums up the operatic high drama of a good Russian novel. It's the 'Real Housewives' Crime and Punishment:' first the horror of a non-invitation, and then the shattering aftermath.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.

The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

When we are on the road, we do a real horror show - and it's pure entertainment. That's it.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

My favorite zany horror flick is 'Evil Dead 2.' Sam Raimi is awesome! I saw this back in the day when I was younger. 'Evil Dead' was actually scary, and 'Evil Dead 2' was zany as hell. I don't really watch 'Army of Darkness' though.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

'It Follows' is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

Me and my parents would watch old 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' and all those old black and white movies - as a kid, I'd lie in bed thinking that they would come out at night.