Horror Film Quotes - Page 5

• The movies that are honored at The Oscars are always a certain type: Old-fashioned. It's a bunch of well-made, old-fashioned movies that support our idea of ourselves. They uplift the human spirit. That's why horror films never even get nominated.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Uplifting, Support, Spirit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Broken, Done

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go see those movies. Although when I was thinking about it, I was thinking "I would probably have a really nice beach house if I made a horror movie." They seem to be very popular. I just don't think it's my thing.

  Suzanne Todd

  Beach, Nice, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point of view in such a unique way. The way that film is shot, the way the eyelines are so close, if not directly into camera, betrays an intimacy with the characters and the audience.

  Bryan Fuller

  Character, Unique, Views

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• I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

  Drew Goddard

  Smart, Superhero, Adults

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Demand, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

  James Wan

  Swimming, Aquariums, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I feel like most horror films are made for teenagers about teenagers. I've done a couple of those horror films. There's nothing wrong with that but the older I get the more I starve for more adult material.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Couple, Teenager, Adults

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

  Mary Harron

  Horror, Film, Genre

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

  Mary Harron

  Girl, People, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

  David Hayter

  Kids, Horror, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  Avey Tare

  School, Warrior, Thinking

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• As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

  Lin Shaye

  Real, Opportunity, Stories

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• I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.

  Leigh Whannell

  Sweet, Laughter, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

  Leigh Whannell

  Scary, Comedy, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Moving, Character, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

  Stephen King

  Flower, Hands, People

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• The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Actors, Horror, Film

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.

  Simon Boswell

  Girlfriend, People, Scary

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• I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.

  Rozz Williams

  Thinking, People, Age

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• Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  Dario Argento

  Character, Psychology, Different

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• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Blood, Scare

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