“The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.” PeopleIfsBookJobsGuyCan DoCuttingReaderHorrorAdvantageTheaterEfficientPacksMovie TheaterOne On One Author:Stephen King
“There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."” PeopleIfsWayGivingKindI CanTwoFallEvilStuffDealsFictionWorryClearSkyHorrorGive MeCancerScaryLightningCigaretteDrsStrokesPredestinedHydeJekyllClear SkiesMr HydeScary Stuff Author:Stephen King
“Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.” PeopleLittlesMightHappensGuyBitsTalkingLaughingComedyCryDramaHorrorLittle BitScaredScreensEngagedPopcorn Author:Bruce Campbell
“I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.” PeopleWantBookIdeasEyeWantedChanceLevelsCompanyNovelSeeingFieldsHorrorTiredMedicalInstanceGenreMeritEditorsConspiracyPublishersThrillersBaggageAndrewWhitneyBad Company Author:F. Paul Wilson
“If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.” PeopleIfsLooksHorrorGenreUncomfortableFear Of DeathHorror Genre Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentActionAudienceHorrorDifferent WaysTensionFreak Author:Robert Rodriguez
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.” PeopleWayStoriesDarkForeverHorrorDrawingI RealizedMonstersGhostObsessedGet OverLove Of My LifeGhost StoriesMonster Movie Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“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
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.” PeopleWritingBelieveMeanEndsStoriesSpiritGuyEvilStrongI BelieveNiceHorrorStandardsPhilosophicalRottenNice PeopleHorror StoriesSlugs Author:Stephen King
“There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.” PeopleLooksStoriesStuffWrittenFieldsHorrorVery GoodHorror Stories Author:Stephen King
“I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."” PeopleLongSaidCareHorrorDon't CareChecksI Don't CareFedsCall MeBounce Author:Stephen King
“I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingHorrorHardestQueensScreamTrying My Hardest Author:A. J. Cook
“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.” PeopleIfsFilmWatchesHorrorOffenseScratchesHorror Film Author:Bryan Fuller
“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.” PeopleWarMatterPoliticalImaginationCitiesViolenceCrimeHorrorBattleWeaponsDestructionDistanceSoldierHeavyCommitAcknowledgeHeatBombsVillageEngagementSteadyOccasionalMissilesCoalitionsSavageryBarbaricWar CrimesArtilleryAmerican WarRules Of Engagement Author:James Carroll
“This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.” PeopleBelieveReligionHorrorBillionsDecentSane Author:Sam Harris
“Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.” PeopleHas BeensSpiritAtheismWorstCivilizationHorrorRaisedPositive AtheismCemeteryOpiumOpiatesAphrodisiacNumbingSpires Author:Phillip Adams
“I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.” PeopleFunHorrorScareAcceptable Author:Stephen King
“You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.” PeopleRememberCan DoCrimeHorrorShotsCommittedInsane Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.” PeopleFeelsMadeSaidWantedFilmViewsMysteryEasierHorrorDistanceHorror FilmExorcist Author:William Friedkin
“I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."” PeopleWantFilmHorrorMainstreamShockingHorror Film Author:Eli Roth
“Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.” PeopleWantYearsKidsGirlAudienceSawsHappenedCrazyGoes OnHorrorBiggerShoesTerrorTheatreReactionsRaysScreamAirplaneSeptemberTeenageOrangeGangSeptember 11Teenage GirlDate Movie Author:Eli Roth
“Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.” PeopleThinkingGuyHorrorScareDate Movie Author:Tara Reid
“It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.” PeopleDifferentMatterPainSufferingSpeakSuccessfulComedyHorrorSuccessful PeopleThrillersPain And Suffering Author:Philippe Claudel
“As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.” PeopleCareFilmStudyHorrorAdultsUniversityWho CaresOne LoveHorror Film Author:Chuck Klosterman
“You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.” PeopleHorrorGrimGags Author:Bruce Campbell
“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHeartHas BeensWarReasonWantedUsedFightingNationsMemoriesIssuesHappenedEventsHeroHorrorShould HaveShameOccasionsFakeJustifyCashShould Have BeenShamefulAtrocitiesUnifyingWrong ReasonsWedgesRudy Author:Paul Krugman
“You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.” PeopleWantLaughingHorrorEntertainingTerrifiedDisgusted Author:Bruce Campbell
“I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingDifferentTalkingSupportHorrorTransformationDetermineTerrorGuidesDreadBurnedJuiceDifferent ExperiencesOncologists Author:Eve Ensler
“People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.” PeopleWayKindHappensWantedFilmYoungGirlHorrorAffairIntenseAll KindsLove AffairHorror FilmPlatonicPlatonic Love Author:Mary Harron
“The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.” PeopleWorldHorrorCommittedSincereOur World Author:John Mortimer
“When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."” PeopleYearsPlayGuyMonthsHorrorHeavyWow Author:Scott M. Gimple
“Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.” PeopleIfsWantPainWatchesEnvironmentHorrorSafeRelateSafe Environment Author:John Darnielle
“I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.” PeopleReasonLove IsHorrorLowsBudgetsUnderdog Author:Jason Blum
“There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” PeopleYearsEndsReasonNumbersFiveLandHugeHorrorSixMajorsEvidenceVery GoodSyriaDroughtHuge Numbers Author:Prince Charles
“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
“I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.” PeopleThinkingSituationHorrorCreatingSuspenseThrowingRelatableWrenches Author:Jason Blum
“(Playing with Jeffster at Comic-Con) was absolutely the scariest thing I have ever done. I literally skipped over the 'what a great moment' to 'oh, my God, I can't believe I have to do this.' And when I was up there, the people were, like, "Oh, my God," and they were all screaming and stuff. But I didn't hear a thing. I was just in my own little bubble of horror and panic, utterly, utterly blanched with terror.” PeopleBelieveLittlesI CanDoneMomentsStuffMy OwnHorrorTerrorComicBubblesPanicGreat MomentsComic Con Author:Vik Sahay
“My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.” PeopleTryingEndsStoriesDreamWantedActorsPlansHorrorMy FamilySupportiveCrushedProtectiveIrsBackupHorror StoriesBackup Plan Author:Zachary Levi
“You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.” PeopleFeelsCharacterJobsDiesAudienceCreativeNiceCryTvsHorrorConnectionsMediumsWhen Someone Dies Author:Glen Mazzara
“We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of the actors playing the roles. They should be playing the age that they are in the [Hunger Games] books. It would let people off the hook, if you said, "Well, instead of 12 to 18, why don't you make them 18 to 25 or 16 to 21?" If you don't stay true to the horror of the fact that they are 12 to 18, you're not doing justice to the book.” PeopleIfsWantShouldWellsSaidBookMatterCharacterFactsAgeActorsGamesFeltJusticeRolesHorrorHungerHookStay TrueHunger Games BookGame Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.” PeopleIfsStoriesLeftChanceHorrorTablesUnhappyTalesUpsetHorror Stories Author:Emile Chartier
“I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentPlayInterestingHorrorEdgesOddVillainHerds Author:Jeremy Irons
“The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.” PeopleThinkingBookStoriesShowsTogetherRealizingInterestingDealsFansReaderDramaHorrorDetailsGenreFixedThemeSurvivorFrankHookZombieComing TogetherInteresting Stories Author:Steven Yeun
“There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.” PeopleTryingWellsDoeActionFilmBeliefNaturalHorrorHuntersHuntsPrimalHorror FilmAction FilmsNatural LifeHunter GatherersPrimal Fear Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.” PeopleSometimesHorrorStudiosScaryGenreDisagreeHorror Genre Author:Alexandre Aja
“I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindWholeAgeFilmSidesHorrorScenePunkPersonaHorror FilmDarker SideShaved Head Author:Rozz Williams
“I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.” PeopleKnowsFirstsRememberFilmUsedWatchesTypeHorrorDecidedScaryNervousCinemaGirlfriendNonsenseIronicFreakConsideringPublicityMy GirlfriendHorror FilmExorcistFainting Author:Simon Boswell