Horror Genre Quotes

• What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Scare, Knows

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Vices, Suspense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  People, Looks, Fear Of Death

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

  Stephen King

  Genre Is, Delicate Things, Psychologist

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• Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

  Clive Barker

  Halloween, Book, Equality

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jul 28, 2013

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• The charm of horror only tempts the strong

  Jean Lorrain

  Strong, Horror, Charm

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• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  George A. Romero

  Film, Dies, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Halloween, Independent, Cinema

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

  Charles Baudelaire

  New Day, Devil, Satanic

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• In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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• I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

  Robert Englund

  Technology, Example, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

  Fede Alvarez

  Way, Masters, Audience

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Ladyhawke

  Dark, Fans, Sides

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Phones, Looks, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Scare, Fans, Watches

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• I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

  Mena Suvari

  Letting Go, Crazy, Supernatural Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

  Rob Riggle

  Senior, Humorous, School

  Source: collider.com

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• The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Desire, Growing

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• Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

  Robert Englund

  Years, Trying, Fans

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.

  Alexandre Aja

  People, Scary, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Years, Play, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.

  Mena Suvari

  Supernatural Elements, Fans, Huge

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre or a psychological thriller, you're really pushed as an actress, you're pushed way outside of your comfort zone. Emotionally, mentally, and physically. That's when things really get fun.

  Ashley Bell

  Fun, Evil, Way

  "Ashley Bell: Passion for a Skill". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

  Michele Soavi

  Way, Visionaries, Explicit

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• I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Good Times, Realizing, Having A Good Time

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