Quotes About Horror

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

One of my favorite things about making horror movies is, the first time you screen them in front of an audience, it's very fun to hear people audibly react to the work you put into a movie. You don't wonder at the end of the movie whether it worked or not.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.

A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn't notice that they were campy - I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don't think they're campy.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first step in coming out of denial. So we have to look into the darkness.

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

I've never been a big gore guy.

The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.

It feels fantastic to be a part of 'Fear Files.' I am having a great time shooting for the show as it is not just another horror or crime show.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

I've made a career off of Halloween.

I love 'Halloween,' and I love 'The Thing.'

I like the original 'Halloween.'

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.

I walked away in the manner that we always do from horror: believing that refusal to accept reality might just negate it, knowing that it walks one constant, smirking step behind us. I walked until the vast, black truth of what had happened overwhelmed me, becoming part of my existence, pivotal-- - Ian Cowley, Crossed: Badlands #1

My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them