Horror Quotes - Page 10

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.