Horror Film Quotes

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

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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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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• 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 like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If you stay home with the candlelight and you read a book, Rilke, or whatever, or Sigmund Freud, it's boring. But if you watch Udo Kier in a horror film and people are hunting me and trying to kill me, and there's my love interest with big breasts and beautiful hair, and I believe in her and they kill me at the end, that's more interesting. We're talking about films here. We're not talking about writing stories.

  Udo Kier

  Beautiful, Believe, Book

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Friday, Pakistan, Horror

  "Real Life Terror Reflects An Author's Imagination". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 14, 2010.

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• I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Amber, Saws

  "'The Stepfather' Star Amber Heard Describes Her Terrifying Gamble to Bare It All". Interview with Toni Hartshorn, www.amc.com. October 2010.

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• I really liked The Children of Corn, believe it or not. And Rosemary's Baby - yeah, exactly. I've always loved it. Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

  Alexandra Breckenridge

  Baby, Children, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Saws, Action

  "Siggraph: Henry Selick Wants to Make Comedic, Live-Action Horror Films" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kids, Fans, Horror

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• I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

  Anna Kendrick

  Queens, Games, White

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