Horror Quotes

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

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to it, and it's not a typical horror movie.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

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.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

...the music seems creepy, like when children sing in a horror movie

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

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.

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'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.

I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

I have supped full with horrors.

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.