Beast Quote by Brian Wayne Peterson

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at…

— Scott Derrickson

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches…

— H. L. Mencken

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is…

— Guillermo del Toro

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

— Philip Kitcher

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's…

— Clive Barker

“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I’m almost…

— Thomas Ligotti

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent…

— Robert Englund

The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to…

— Tim Burton

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

— Alain Resnais

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that…

— Tiger Shroff

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the story and…

— Takashi Miike