Horror Quotes

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

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.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool."

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

I am your number one fan.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!