“In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.” FilmMy OwnClearToo MuchHorrorFreakSteersHorror FilmPersonal Time Author:Aimee Teegarden
“As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.” WayStillsStoriesFilmYoungDiesFansLoversHorrorAbsolutesMirrorsKillingGenreObsessedStakesOperaConsumptionYoung LoveJasonHorror FilmMichael Myers Author:Bryan Fuller
“Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point of view in such a unique way. The way that film is shot, the way the eyelines are so close, if not directly into camera, betrays an intimacy with the characters and the audience.” IfsWayWellsCharacterFilmViewsSilenceAudienceHorrorUniqueShotsCamerasPoint Of ViewFantasticIntimacyBetrayLambsHorror Film Author:Bryan Fuller
“Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go see those movies. Although when I was thinking about it, I was thinking "I would probably have a really nice beach house if I made a horror movie." They seem to be very popular. I just don't think it's my thing.” ThinkingFilmHouseNiceHorrorBeachReally NiceHorror FilmVery PopularBeach House Author:Suzanne Todd
“I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.” KindFilmSpeakInterestingHorrorGenderStorytellingMy WayMovie StarGender Roles Author:Karyn Kusama
“When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.” ThinkingDoneFilmBrokenHorrorSilentFilmmakerSomething NewHorror Film Author:Roger Corman
“Film team kept me very, very shielded when I was that young, because of course, I was seven years old. You know, you're still kind of reading. It's still kind of like, "Cat." "Dog." "Ann jumped over fence." So I guess in a way it helped me progress in school, too, because I was reading so much and memorizing so much. But they kept me very shielded from everything that was going on in the The Amityville Horror. I didn't know anything, basically, about the film. I just knew that it was a scary film. I wasn't allowed to watch it. I can watch it now, I'm just too scared.” KindSchoolFilmReadingProgressTeamDogHorrorCatSevenScaredScaryFence Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“The movies that are honored at The Oscars are always a certain type: Old-fashioned. It's a bunch of well-made, old-fashioned movies that support our idea of ourselves. They uplift the human spirit. That's why horror films never even get nominated.” FilmSpiritSupportHorrorUpliftingHonoredHuman SpiritHorror Film Author:Joe Bob Briggs
“Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But they attract lots of people, they're much derided as a genre but people go and see them and they're not all dumb. There's some very clever horror films. Stephen King gets a lot of flack for not being a proper writer because he's a horror writer, but I think he writes some brilliant books. I think it's wrong to just bin it before looking at it.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookFilmAudienceHorrorBrilliantCleverDumbSophisticatedHorror FilmVery Clever Author:Reece Shearsmith
“A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and brings that to life on screen in such a way that we can get close enough to that character to let our defenses down and want them to be safe.” EnoughCharacterFilmHorrorTruthfulHorror Film Author:Kimberly Peirce
“In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical. We're let in very close. So I think a good horror film has to pull you in very deeply inside. Halloween is a good horror film because we love Jamie Lee Curtis, we're brought very deeply in right when she's babysitting the kids. She's going from house to house, all those houses have windows that you can look in. We're a very vulnerable and exposed audience.” ThinkingKidsFilmHouseAudienceViolenceEmotionalHorrorWindowShiningVulnerableIntimacyHalloweenVery DeepHorror FilmNicholsonShelleyBabysitting Author:Kimberly Peirce
“I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.” FilmComedyHorrorDiscussion Author:Eric Christian Olsen
“I enjoyed Adam McCormick, it was this odd mix of coming-of-age, of horror, of suspense, of almost romance. These kind of disparate elements that for some reason blend really nicely into Jamie Marks is Dead quiet story. And I like that the scope of the film is very intimately focused. It's really fascinating and I didn't quite get the script at first, and I liked that, it made me want to keep thinking about it.” ThinkingKindReasonFilmRomanceHorrorQuietFocusedOddReally Nice Author:Cameron Monaghan
“I think that Michael Myers is an icon. The bad guys, it's always the bad guys that everybody loves. It's Michael Myers, it's Freddy, it's Jason, they're like the Dracula and Frankenstein of our generation. I think it started a new wave of horror films. They're cult classics and they're something that everybody wants to watch on Halloween.” ThinkingFilmGuyHorrorWaveHalloweenCultHorror Film Author:Danielle Harris
“I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.” DifferentFilmHorrorHorror Film Author:Tim Matheson
“I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry for so long and do ridiculous things in front of strangers, you sort of break down any barriers, you can't be embarrassed.” ThinkingLongRunningFilmBreakCryHorrorStrangerRidiculousBarriersScreamEmbarrassedBreaking DownHorror Film Author:Alexandra Daddario
“I had always loved horror films, so I wanted to do something in the horror genre but wanted it to be sweet and charming at the same time. Because there's a difference between watching horror, where you can leave it behind, and writing horror, where you have to live in it for months and months at a time.” WritingFilmSweetHorrorCharmingHorror Film Author:Bryan Fuller
“Some of my fondest and most impressionable movie memories are from those early sci-fi and horror films. I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.” HeartBookKidsFilmMemoriesMy HeartHorrorVampireHorror FilmImpressionable Author:Ray Wise
“I really liked The Children of Corn, believe it or not. And Rosemary's Baby - yeah, exactly. I've always loved it. Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.” BelieveChildrenFilmBabyHorrorExcitedHorror Film Author:Alexandra Breckenridge
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.” ThinkingFilmEasyInterestingModernCommunicationInternetDramaHorrorCommunicateFilmmakerCell PhoneReally InterestingHorror Film Author:Joe Swanberg
“I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If you stay home with the candlelight and you read a book, Rilke, or whatever, or Sigmund Freud, it's boring. But if you watch Udo Kier in a horror film and people are hunting me and trying to kill me, and there's my love interest with big breasts and beautiful hair, and I believe in her and they kill me at the end, that's more interesting. We're talking about films here. We're not talking about writing stories.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingBelieveBookHomeBeautifulFilmI BelieveInterestInterestingHorrorBoringTortureHuntingKill MeHorror FilmCandlelight Author:Udo Kier
“I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much, and to kind of look to where your vision is going now. But I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one, because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in. Feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.” ThinkingKindImportantDoneFeelingsFilmDarkVisionCreativeHorrorGuiltHorribleGuiltyProgressionFundamentalistHorror FilmFeeling Guilty Author:Wes Craven
“There are a lot of war memorials around the UK. It's usually a part of the war memorials. I loved the way The Glorious Dead sounded. It's kind of a strange thing to say. There's nothing particularly glorious about being dead. It sounded like a strange, horror film. It just grew from there, really. It seemed quite apt for the record. We're kind of obsessed with zombie movies and horror films. It seemed like it just fit, at the time.” KindWarFilmStrangeFitHorrorObsessedGloriousZombieMemorialHorror FilmZombie Movie Author:Daniel Taylor
“I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.” RealFilmSpecialHorrorHorror Film Author:Tyrese Gibson
“My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Especially with the main title, my job is to convince the audience to take the leap into the film even though their better sense is telling them, "I should put my popcorn down and get the hell outta here"!” FilmAudienceHellHorrorConvinceLeap Author:Christopher Young
“I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.” ThinkingArtImportantFeelingsFilmLiteratureEnvironmentHorrorNegativeTragedyIntenseHorror FilmLear Author:Brian Boyd
“I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.” ThinkingSchoolFilmHorrorHigh SchoolWarriorSatPsychedelicHorror Film Author:Avey Tare
“For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.” FilmColorHorrorAddReassuring Author:Lynda Barry
“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.” FilmCareersHorrorBotherHopelessHorror Film Author:Donald Pleasence
“A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.” FilmFunStuffBloodModernColdHorrorEntertainingLeaving MeGoreBlood And Gore Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.” FilmComedyDramaHorrorHorror Film Author:Sam Raimi
“As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.” MightFilmEnjoyHorrorHollywoodMy FavoriteItalianBridesHorror FilmHollywood Films Author:Johnny Ramone
“It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.” MadeI CanFilmComedyWorstHorrorNutsHorror Film Author:Jason Reitman
“I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingLooksDoeStillsFilmViewsLaughingComedyHorrorIntellectualScaredWorking ItMaking People LaughHorror FilmBad Movies Author:Jason Reitman
“When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.” ThinkingCharacterFilmStreetsMiddleHorrorTeenagerRelatedNightmareWarmthHorror FilmNightmare On Elm Street Author:Jason Reitman
“When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.” PeopleWantKindCharacterFilmYoungVoiceHorrorMain Characters Author:Jason Reitman
“I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.” ThinkingNeedsFilmMillionsHorrorCreepyHorror Film Author:George A. Romero
“I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.” PeopleThinkingMadeWarHardFeelingsAgeFilmHorrorDirectIraqStrikesPostsReflectingIraq WarHorror Film Author:Eli Roth
“I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.” ThinkingMeanFilmEnjoyFansHorrorEntertainingHorror FilmHorror Fans Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.” ThinkingWellsI CanFilmArtistStuffBlackFictionDesignGrewHorrorCreaturesGrew UpGunDown AndScience FictionCategoriesHawksBlack Hawk Down Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.” FilmHorrorScaredHorror Film Author:Esha Gupta
“You're gonna need a bigger boat.” InspirationalNeedsAmericaFilmLinesHorrorHollywoodBiggerBoatAll TimeMovieInfinityHelloMovie StarInstituteBest TimesGreat AmericanHorror FilmCinematicAll The BestOne LineGreat FilmRankingHollywood MoviesAmerican MovieAmerican FilmBest FilmGreat YearHollywood FilmsInstitutesGreatest MovieAll Time FavoriteAll Time Best MovieAll Time BestFilms And MoviesSaying HelloClassic MovieMemorable MovieAll Time GreatestClassic FilmsQuoting MoviesIconic MovieMovie LinesFilm HistoryDamn YouOne Line MovieQuotable Movie1984 MovieAwestruckFantasy FilmsStupid MovieRadio NewsShark Attacks Author:Peter Benchley
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” FilmNiceHorrorScaryAll TimeCinemaClassicMovieVillainHelloBeansLambsInstituteLiverIconicSinisterGreat AmericanHorror FilmAll The BestImprovisingGreat FilmBig MovieAmerican MovieAmerican FilmCensusBest FilmGreat YearInstitutesScary HalloweenGreatest MovieAll Time Best MovieAll Time BestFilms And MoviesMemorable MovieZombie MovieAll Time GreatestClassic FilmsQuoting MoviesIconic MovieMovie LinesStarlings80s And 90sChiantiChopped Liver Author:Thomas Harris
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” ChildrenFilmNightHorrorScaryMovieHalloweenHelloCinematicAmerican MovieAmerican FilmInstitutesMovie ActorsGreatest MovieQuoting MoviesIconic MovieFilm HistoryQuotable MoviePopular FilmKids MoviePopular MovieMovies And MusicCount Dracula Author:Bram Stoker
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.” IfsKnowsMindShowsCareFilmScienceMemoriesDarkBecomingHorrorOffersHappeningsMiseryFleshMeatVegetarianVeganFactoriesVegetarianismVeganismOur MemoriesHorror FilmSustenanceDark PlacesFactory FarmingEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Yuki: What could I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear! He's a character in a horror film! Kyo: So what if I didn't know? Like I'd waste my time watching some dumb movie about a bear! Yuki: You truly are an idiot...” IfsKnowsCharacterFilmStupidLike YouBearsHorrorWasteCatYeahIdiotMy TimeWhat IfJasonHorror FilmWasting My TimeFruits Basket Author:Natsuki Takaya
“I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.” ShowsWantedFilmStarsHorrorEnormousCelebrateCelebrationUnafraidAdmirerGreat FilmFilm StarsMacabre Author:Nicolas Cage
“And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.” WayBookPastRememberFilmLyingImpossibleHorror Author:Milan Kundera
“It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.” LooksStillsFilmRoomsChangedSeriousHorrorVery GoodTongueGood TimesCheeksHorror FilmTongue In Cheek28 Days Author:John Carpenter