Dissonance Quote by R.R. Hood

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience…

— Alistair Cross

“Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and…

— Douglas E. Winter

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about…

— Wayne Allen Sallee

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion…

— Tim Minear

“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...”

— Leland Hall

“Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

— Vikram Bhatt

“The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but…

— Robert Rodriguez