Horror Quotes

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

I'm not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones.

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Horror movies can really go one way or the other - they can go amazingly or they can go terribly - and it's generally an extreme, in one way or the other, so you have to be very careful.

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 love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.