Horror Quotes · Page 34

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

— Lucy Boynton

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

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

“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

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

— Stephen King

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B…

— John Landis

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going…

— Tessa Dare

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror…

— Dan Chaon

“Writing tales of horror makes it hard to convince people that I'm a nice, gentle person. I love rainbows and wildflowers and…

— Diane Hoh

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary…

— Alexandre Aja

I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies,…

— Mark Pellegrino

“I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong…

— Joseph Delaney

“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro…

— Doug Bradley

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you…

— William S. Burroughs

“That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an…

— Jeff Rice

“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that…

— Ryu Murakami

To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew.…

— Loung Ung

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too…

— Meg Cabot

The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a…

— Jennifer Estep

“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

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

— Dorothy Allison

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

— Tobias Forge

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

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

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

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

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

— Gary Janetti

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

— George Stephen

“There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.”

— Justin Bienvenue

“Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...”

— C.M. Stunich