Horror Quotes

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

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.

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

I hate horror movies.

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

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.

I love horror and sci-fi.

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.