“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
“Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.” MadeFunKnownHorrorInsanityConcentrationCampsDictatorNaziConcentration CampHomicidal Author:Charlie Chaplin
“War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.” MadeWarOrderHorrorIntenseAwfulDiminish Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.” ChildrenMadeKidsAgeFilmWatchesBrotherHorrorSixHollywoodGenreCartoonBiased Author:Emraan Hashmi
“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.” WorldMadeAgeMy OwnQualityWonderMysteryChildhoodMiddleSpecialPromiseHorrorSceneEvidenceImmortalityVisibleIntensityVagueMiddle AgesHintsSeductiveMenacePlausible Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950 Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950
“It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.” MadeUsePurposeLanguageMankindHorrorTruth IsMereAncestorInterfereMaliceIncompetence Author:Chinua Achebe