The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics.… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Horror movies in a sense are about the things that you cannot control, cannot define and the things that you are afraid… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
“Remember that if I were born of the underworld, you were born of flowers. You are the blood the forest feeds upon,… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
“The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
I think none of the humor in the first Evil Dead was intentional. We weren't that sophisticated. We got more sophisticated with… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“FRANK ... so, many things happen in the 70s to transform the horror genre. Present end premodern fears mix, birthing scary movies… — Nicola Masciandaro Copy Share Image
Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know,… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“Here is the final truth of horror movies: They do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But… — James Pratt Copy Share Image
Good horror is the kind that we can all relate to. We all know what it was like to be a child… — Harrison Smith Copy Share Image
Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with… — James Wan Copy Share Image
“It feels as though Tony's a ghost, a wisp of someone I once loved, or never loved at all and thought was… — Sandy DeLuca Copy Share Image
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry!" Piggy cried, knowing for certain now that he could never return. That he had a promise to keep in the… — Diana Henstell Copy Share Image
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the… — Elliott O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Irwin was difficult to wake; the poor man was totally wiped out. He collapsed in one of the soft office chairs the… — Holly Rutan Copy Share Image
![“His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice…” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/858/aberjhani-1814_achieve_his-ben-okri-s-work-poses-very-serious-q_3057967.png)
