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“The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.”

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Author:Roger Corman

“When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.”

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Book:Dawn of the Dead

Source: Dawn of the Dead

“I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.”

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Author:Alexandra Daddario

“Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.”

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Author:John Waters

“I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.”

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Author:Ingrid Pitt

“I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is The Shining. I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.”

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Author:Caity Lotz

“All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.”

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Author:Wes Craven

“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.”

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Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.”

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Author:Serena Williams

“Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.”

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Author:Sam Raimi

“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.”

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Author:Peter Murphy

“A really good horror film has a story.”

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Author:Dee Wallace

“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.”

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Author:Adrienne Barbeau

“It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.”

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Author:Park Chan-wook

“And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.”

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Author:Trishelle Cannatella

“Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.”

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Author:Wesley Morris

“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.”

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Author:Sean Durkin

“If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.”

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Author:Jacque Fresco

“Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.”

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Author:Dario Argento

“Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.”

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Author:Martin Henderson

“I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.”

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Author:Aaron Stanford

“I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.”

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Author:Dave Rowntree

“So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.”

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Author:Fay Wray

“Horror films don't create fear. They release it.”

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Author:Wes Craven

“Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.”

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Author:James Wan

“You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'”

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Author:Eli Roth

“If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.”

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Author:George A. Romero

“People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.”

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Author:Aaron Stanford

“Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.”

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Book:Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.”

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Author:Les Dawson

“I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.”

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Author:Moon Bloodgood

“I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!”

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Author:Adrienne Barbeau

“I'm always a fan of a good horror film.”

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Author:Andre Braugher

“I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.”

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Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.”

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Author:Keegan Allen

“I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.”

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Author:David Arquette

“I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.”

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Author:Neve Campbell

“Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.”

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Author:Neve Campbell

“I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.”

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Author:Fran Kranz

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