Allegory Quote by George A. Romero

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that…

— Mark Gatiss

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we,…

— Mike Flanagan

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much…

— Drew Goddard

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it…

— John Carpenter

There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls,…

— Tim Lebbon

There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part…

— Sissy Spacek

I like to use horror as allegory.

— George A. Romero

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an…

— Kane

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want…

— Bruce Campbell

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

— Karyn Kusama

It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers'…

— Susan Hill