“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.” LifeMayMomentsSeemsLife IsSufferingBlackImaginationOur LivesBearsHorrorLowsLipsCloudsTrialsDesertInstantSubstitutesContrastDreadThirstCurtainsBrightnessTransientHeavinessRespite Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“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, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.” WayGivingHas BeensDonePastFunBlackAirHorrorCleanVampireGenreFavourInsectsCorpsesCasualSeriousnessSkullsMaidensCrawlingRespectabilityBrowsers Author:Tim Lebbon
“I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.” LittlesMadeFilmBlackWhiteHorrorNineBlack And WhiteHorror FilmDementia Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.” KnowsWayFirstsLooksKindLittlesDifferentBlackLinesFansHorrorAnd LoveBalletDifferent KindsSwansFinish LineBlack SwanHorror Fans Author:James Wolcott
“A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment” HeartLittlesEyeGirlEvilBlackWhiteHorrorBlueFulfillmentYearningBlue EyesBlack GirlWhite Girl Book:The Bluest Eye Source: The Bluest Eye
“For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.” LightBlackWhiteHorrorMonstersBlack And WhiteWhite Light Author:Guillermo del Toro