Horror Quotes · Page 114

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some…

— Anonymous

“Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark.”

— Nenia Campbell

“I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.”

— Joe Hill

In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door"…

— Bryan Fuller

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

— C. S. Lewis

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

“Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere ("Between Four Yews")”

— Reggie Oliver

Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.

— George A. Romero

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what…

— Jessica Lange

“That night, I took a while falling asleep and when I did, I had a strange dream. She was sitting in my…

— Kiran Manral

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

— Georges Bataille

“Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no.”

— Rick Yancey

When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty,…

— Nicolas Cage

I think 'Candyman' is important in that way. Not necessarily my movie, but the concept of a sort of mythological figure that…

— Nia DaCosta

I wanna do mystery, I wanna do sci-fi, I wanna do horror, and I wanna do all of those things.

— Misha Green

The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -…

— George Weigel

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

— Michael Pena

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a…

— Marshall Savage

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only…

— Terry Pratchett

“Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny?”

— Steve Emmett

“I shook with cold and fear, without being able to answer. After a lapse of some moments, I was again called. I…

— Hain Friswell

I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror…

— Ram Charan

(Playing with Jeffster at Comic-Con) was absolutely the scariest thing I have ever done. I literally skipped over the 'what a great…

— Vik Sahay

The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that…

— Peter James