Horror Quotes · Page 47

“You’re just spooked. It’s Halloween; we’re all kind of spooked. That’s just the way it is. - Tory”

— Matthew Leeth

“He thought he was becoming stronger. He was becoming dependent.”

— Valon G

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

— Eli Roth

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I mean, I don't like horror movies. I just don't like being scared for the sake of being scared.

— Cole Escola

For the first time I tried to involve an important social message about transgenders in the horror comedy genre.

— Raghava Lawrence

It's nice to wake up and not have a sense of horror about what I might have done.

— Lou Sanders

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

— Jacque Fresco

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling…

— Joanne Greenberg

In doses, like most people, I like all different kinds of movies. I like any movie that can take me somewhere and…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Horror, terror, anxiety, I think they're all wrapped in psychological turmoil. It's how we teach each other and our children how to…

— Nia DaCosta

It's logical when you become known to the industry with 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein' that they typecast you and want you in their…

— Udo Kier

I love horror movies, and the kid is always such a big part. Kids are usually seen as so innocent, like, 'Oh,…

— Milly Shapiro

In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad Seed' was one of them and…

— David Leslie Johnson

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I was in Indonesia I had made a short horror film called 'Safe Haven' for the 'V/H/S/2' anthology with Timo, a…

— Gareth Evans

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.…

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows…

— Anonymous

Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through…

— Mark Helprin

“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an…

— Franz Rottensteiner

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

— William James

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

— Geena Davis

“Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.”

— Aeschylus

“Maybe I'll really try to kiss her, even if I fall through her like a raindrop.”

— James B. Willard

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

— Henry Rollins

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”

— Clarice Lispector

Horror movies are hard work. Why don't we make a horror workout?

— Kevin Peter Hall

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with…

— Guillermo del Toro

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

— Chris Cleave

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

— Eli Roth

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff…

— Patrick Fabian

The truth is there are people who love horror movies. I don't happen to be one of those people.

— Rebecca Serle

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

— Robert Englund

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

— Katherine Mansfield

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

— Cassandra Peterson