Horror Quotes

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

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

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

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

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.