Horror famous quotes
05-20-2025
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
-- Abigail Breslin -
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
-- Adam Arkin -
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
-- Adam Arkin -
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
-- Adrienne Barbeau -
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
-- Alan Moore -
All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .
-- Aleksandr Kuprin -
I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
-- Alfie Kohn -
I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
-- Amber Heard -
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
-- Amber Heard -
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
-- Andrew Pyper -
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
-- Andrew Pyper -
I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.
-- Angela Bassett -
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
-- Anne Rice -
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
-- Anne Rice -
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
-- Anne Stevenson -
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.
-- Barrett Tillman -
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
-- Barry Lyga -
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
-- Barry Watson -
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
-- Bela Lugosi -
I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.
-- Brad Listi -
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
-- Bram Stoker -
I am determined to go through the horror of this world.
-- Brian Epstein -
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.
-- Brian Thompson -
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
-- C.P. Snow -
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
-- Carolyn Maloney -
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
-- Carson McCullers -
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
-- Charles Hermite -
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
-- Charles Inglis -
I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.
-- Chris Cleave -
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
-- Chris Cleave -
To this day I still watch tons of horror.
-- Christopher Bollen -
Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
-- Christopher Lee -
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
-- Clea DuVall -
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
-- Clive Barker -
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
-- Clive Barker -
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
-- D. A. Carson -
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
-- Danai Gurira -
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
-- Dario Argento -
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.
-- David Cronenberg -
I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.
-- David Ginola -
War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
-- David Hackworth -
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
-- Deborah Eisenberg -
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
-- Diane Setterfield -
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
-- Dodie Smith -
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
-- Donald Pleasence -
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
-- Donald Pleasence -
I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.
-- Drew Barrymore -
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
-- E. M. Forster -
With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.
-- Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
-- Edgar Wright -
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
-- Edward St Aubyn -
That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.
-- Edward T. Lowe, Jr. -
I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.
-- Elena Satine -
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
-- Eli Roth -
When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
-- Eli Roth -
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
-- Eli Roth -
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
-- Eli Roth -
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
-- Eli Roth -
You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
-- Eli Roth -
People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
-- Eli Roth -
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.
-- Esha Gupta -
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
-- Ethan Hawke -
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
-- Eugene Delacroix -
On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
-- Fatboy Slim -
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
-- Gemma Chan -
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
-- George A. Romero -
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
-- George Orwell -
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
-- Georges Bataille -
All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.
-- Gina Philips -
The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
-- Glen Duncan -
I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.
-- Glen Mazzara -
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
-- H. P. Lovecraft
