Horror Film Quotes

• 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.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Couple, Reading, Yesterday

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• 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.

  Josh Hartnett

  Real, Scary, Horror

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• As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

  Johnny Ramone

  Italian, Hollywood Films, Might

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Sep 19, 2014

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• 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.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• 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.

  Neve Campbell

  Hands, People, Upset

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• I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Sleep, Shining, Watches

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• I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Views, People

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• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  Boris Karloff

  Movie, Boys, Ghouls

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

  George A. Romero

  Scary, Zombie, Earth

  George A. Romero (2015). “Dawn of the Dead”, Simon and Schuster

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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• Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• 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.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, Ch. 4, 1997.

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• The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Drama, Safety, Imagination

  "Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton up ante with 'The Collection'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. November 29, 2012.

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

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Horror, Film

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• 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.

  Aaron Stanford

  Heart, People, Safe

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• Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

  Wes Craven

  Horror, Film, Release

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• I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mean, Thinking, Fans

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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.

  Roger Corman

  Halloween, Genre Is, Laughing

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• At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

  Donald Pleasence

  Careers, Hopeless, Horror

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Play, Culture, Asian

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• I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

  Esha Gupta

  Scared, Horror, Film

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