Quotes About Horror

A lot of low-budget genre films you see are horror movies, because horror is the friendliest movie to lack of money.

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

If I'm at home, I'm just watching a bunch of horror movies.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

I don't watch horror movies - they freak me out.

I love horror movies. Any scary movie - if one comes out, I go see it, even if it's supposed to be bad. I want to get my own opinion of it.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.

I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.

I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

I don't like haunted houses or anything like that.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin.

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.

I stand in the middle of my room and debate not answering. Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device—the mysterious knock on the door—because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks .

Why else would you pull out a dead little girl's teeth?" "He took her teeth?" "All but the back part of a baby molar.

I understand now why so many horror movies use that device—the mysterious knock on the door—because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Fact: Somewhere around 2 a.m. on January 3, 1985, a person or persons killed three members of the Day family in their farmhouse in Kinnakee, Kansas. The deceased include Michelle Day, age ten; Debby Day, age nine; and the family matriarch, Patty Day, age thirty-two. Michelle Day was strangled; Debby Day died of axe wounds, Patty Day of two shotgun wounds, axe wounds, and deep cuts from a Bowie hunting knife.