H Quotes
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“Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current”
“Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.”
“Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.”
“Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.”
“Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.”
“Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
“Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.”
“Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.”
“Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"”
“Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.”
Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel
“Horror films don't create fear. They release it.”
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.”
“Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.”
“Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.”
“Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.”
“Horror gives our fear a voice, an outlet that expresses all that we fear we are.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”
“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 will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.”
“Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.”
“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”
“Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-”
“Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.”
“Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror is a fascination...Horror is immobility, the great yawn of empty space, the womb and the hole in the earth, the universal Mother and the great garbage heap...With horror we cannot have recourse to flight or combat, there remains only Adoration or Exorcism.”
“Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“Horror invites us to a face-to-face contact with the worst, a truthful revealing of humanity’s capacity for great evil and great good, of the deep and unconscious fears within us all...”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”
Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life”
Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
“Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.”
“Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.”
“Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.”
“Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.”
“Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart].”
“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.”
“Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”
“Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.”
“Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.”
“Horror is not simply a literary genre. It is a reality. Those who read horror are closer to understanding its malevolent nature and the engrossing peril of its hold. Whereas those who don't haven't a clue until it is far too late to save themselves from the horror.”
Source: The Possession
“Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.”
“Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.”
“Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.”
“Horror is that one genre that lets you metabolize anxiety instead of suppressing it.”
“Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.”
Source: Exquisite Corpse
“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
Source: Cosmic trigger: Down to earth
“Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.”
Source: Haunting on East 48th Street: Perryville, Ohio
“Horror is the removal of masks.”
“Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,
And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear.
[It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore,
E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]”
“Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.”
“Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.”