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Quotes About Horror

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Freddy shits a brick
~ Quentin Tarantino
And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.
~ R.L. LaFevers
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
~ Rachael Taylor
In a horror film the protagonist should be vulnerable enough for audience to be worried about him. You can't have a six feet boxer and expect audience to worry about him.
~ Vikram Bhatt
Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.
~ Ashley Bell
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
~ Robin Wasserman
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
~ Carter Burwell
I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.
~ John Carroll Lynch
The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having to tease out those elements in a way that makes the audience feel like they know what they're in.
~ Karyn Kusama
For me, I feel like horror space has always been a space of the other, even when it's not people of color or black people. That has always drawn me to it, and I've been a big fan.
~ Misha Green
'Kanchana' was a big hit. 'Ganga' was an even bigger hit.
~ Raghava Lawrence
What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.
~ Misha Green
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
~ Phil Klay
I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.
~ James Wan
The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
~ Arthur Slade
I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.
~ Corey Taylor
As a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.
~ Glenn Danzig
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie, all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated.
~ Christopher Young
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
~ Stendhal
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
~ Otto Dix
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.
~ Jason Blum
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
~ Cathy Guisewite