Horror Quotes

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

Sergio Aragones

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Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.

John Lanchester

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I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.

Marco Beltrami

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'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.

Tyler Blackburn

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I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

Matt Reeves

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When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

Lauren Ashley Carter

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Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Tim Minear

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Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

John Podhoretz

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I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

Katrina Bowden

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The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Richard King

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'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

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Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

George A. Romero

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Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Richard Flanagan

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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.

Stephenie Meyer

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Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

George A. Romero

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The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Mark Gatiss

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I'm not a horror fan. I get scared easily.

Carrie-Anne Moss

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To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

Moon Bloodgood

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'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Rob Sheffield

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I thought, because of 'The 100' and 'Apocalypse,' that I knew everything about what life after an apocalypse would be - but Ryan Murphy and the writers of 'American Horror Story' have shown a whole other side of an apocalypse.

Adina Porter

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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Lewis B. Smedes

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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.

Daniel Kaluuya

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The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Kirk Hammett

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