Horror Quotes · Page 27

“My life was empty and my soul was scourged by my own sins. Decadent and corrupt I am… I am evil.”

— E.C. Lemus

“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.”

— Clive Barker

The Eighties were the last decade where the actual filmmaking was still treated with some respect, even if it was horror.

— Ti West

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

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I've always liked horror films, but I have discovered that shooting for scenes in which you play a spirit is not easy.

— Madhura Naik

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

— Lucy Boynton

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

— Jason Blum

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

— Norman Mailer

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like…

— Anonymous

I think it's tough making a horror movie. I was in 'Halloween' and that's a horror movie, but my character only spends…

— Miles Robbins

What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own…

— David Clement-Davies

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

— Jason Blum

“Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And…

— Oscar Wilde

Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the…

— Mike Flanagan

“In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace- weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it…

— Clark Ashton Smith

I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),…

— Laura Mullen

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made…

— Alexa Vega

“Gosnell turned almost no one away from the Women’s Medical Society clinic. This is not meant as a compliment. Repentant Gosnell employee…

— Ann McElhinney

“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups…

— Fritz Leiber

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan…

— Gabriel Mann

The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets…

— Neil Marshall

“Horror’s a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.”

— Stephen King

“The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes”

— Kate Chisman

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

— Matt Duffer

I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.

— Tobias Forge

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

— Alexandra Daddario

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for…

— Alexandre Aja

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

One of my favourite horror films is 'The Blair Witch Project' 'cos I like the fact that you never see the scary…

— Ellie Rowsell

And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths.

— Steven King

I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.

— Jenna Fischer

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

— Gary Janetti

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

— Octave Mirbeau

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

— Bruce Conner

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

— Clive Barker

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

— Fede Alvarez