“To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.” TryingKindMadeStillsGuyHouseFantasyHellCuttingHorrorElementsDevilTortureThis DayScareExorcismExorcist Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.” WellsMeanShowsFilmFoundHorrorElementsFilmmakerGrossHorror Film Author:Sam Raimi
“I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.” PeopleThinkingRealTogetherFilmDiesWatchesGroupsHorrorElementsHorror FilmReally Awesome Author:Elisha
“The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.” FirstsHeartLittlesIdeasGirlDarkHeroHorrorElementsVictimSeriesSurpriseGenreBlondeAlleysElement Of SurpriseBustingDark AlleysBlonde Girl Author:Joss Whedon
“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.” IfsWorldHorrorElementsScaryStorytellingScare Author:Jason Blum
“Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.” IdeasRealPlayHorrorElementsScaryHospitalsSanitySupernatural Elements Author:Michael Rasmussen
“I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.” IfsWritingNovelToo MuchTasteHorrorElementsBoredSeasoning Author:Neil Gaiman
“I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.” IfsThinkingShouldI CanCoursesAchieveSubjectsHorrorElementsAmbitionIllusionShould HaveMachinesOccult Author:Tony Burgess
“A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentEndsCharacterFourImagineHorrorElementsDevilMurderPossessionSatanGiantsDemonZombieEnd Of The WorldLuciferDifferent CharactersAntichrist Author:Marilyn Manson
“I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.” FansHugeHorrorElementsGenreHorror GenreSupernatural Elements Author:Mena Suvari
“I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.” PeopleEasyHappenedCrazyFansHugeHorrorLetting GoElementsGenreHorror GenreJust Let GoWild And CrazySupernatural Elements Author:Mena Suvari
“With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsReasonCharacterLevelsFictionEmotionalBabyHorrorElementsScience FictionShiningBoringInstanceRemoveMuseumsRunnersBladesRosemaryBlade Runner Author:James Ponsoldt
“What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.” HumansDifferentFactsStoriesFilmSpeakHuman BeingsHorrorElementsScarySuspensePrimalIntriguedCarpenterScary ThingsReally ScaryMacabrePrimal Fear Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
“A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.” IfsKnowsFeelsStillsCharacterFilmRomanceChallengesAudienceKnow HowSuccessfulPeriodsHorrorElementsUnderstoodScaryIf I Could Author:Cary Fukunaga
“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.” ThinkingWayHeartHardStoriesCausesMistakeSilenceLaughingHorrorPureElementsDefinitionsMonstersStorytellingClassicBroadsVillainLambsThrillersProtagonistsHorror StoriesSneaky Author:Bryan Fuller
“Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.” WorldWritingSaidRomanceEnjoyLordFiguresDutyHorrorElementsShotsPhilosophicalPeacefulEveningSmokingBatsRatsSpidersPipeRogerStorageRacksGrinningMorbidityGood Evening Book:The Hand of Oberon Source: The Hand of Oberon