Building Quote by John Lanchester

There are tons of 'go-to' scary sounds in film scoring.

— Bear McCreary

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the…

— Mike Flanagan

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite.…

— Alejandro Amenabar

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite.…

— Alejandro Amenabar

In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the…

— Christopher Young

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

— Leigh Whannell

A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up…

— Mukul Dev

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.

— Sam Neill

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

— Roy Lee

The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having…

— Karyn Kusama

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

— Amber Heard

It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

— Leigh Whannell