Top 105 Horror Movies Quotes

I love horror movies, and the kid is always such a big part. Kids are usually seen as so innocent, like, ‘Oh, they can’t do anything that creepy – they’re kids!’ That’s what a lot of horror movies draw on, so getting to join that ‘club’ is really cool.

I’m a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let’s just say that.

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge – there’s nothing like a surprise.

In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie, all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated.

I love horror movies like ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Shining,’ which freaked me out but in a good way. And I love gore.

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren’t really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

Horror movies don’t exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.

Great horror movies are earned. ‘Halloween’ is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they’re able to maintain getting there.

A lot of people call horror movies ‘campy,’ and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn’t notice that they were campy – I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don’t think they’re campy.

A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don’t ever really feel enough to actually care.

The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Oh God, I’m going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you’re making them because everybody laughs so much.

Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.

For horror movies, it’s great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can’t calm my face down, and so it’s really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

I’ve had horror movies thrown at me and I just don’t want to do any because violence isn’t really good for society.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what’s photogenic and what’s not.

The only thing is, I’m terrified of horror movies. I’m scared – I’m admitting it! I mean, I would still do a horror movie; I just probably wouldn’t be able to watch it.

I don’t love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn’t work for me. What’s terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don’t know how to throw a punch, and I’ve never had to do it.

Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that’s why gay people like horror movies, because it’s seeking revenge on the privileged.

I do love horror movies, but I’m not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.

‘Seanan McGuire’ is my real name; if I’m being silly and third-person about it, she’s a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on vacation in the real world, where she studies diseases, cuddles reptiles, watches lots of horror movies, and goes to as many corn fields as possible.

Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.

I’m never scared, so I don’t watch horror movies. Back in the day, I was. I was scared of ‘It’ – you know, the one with the clown. That’s the thing I found scariest in my life, but since then, not really – I don’t watch them.

When there’s a great horror movie, people are like, ‘Horror’s back!’ And when there’s a series of not so good ones, ‘Horror’s dead.’ I think it’s all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can’t control – ‘Forbidden Planet’s Monsters of the Id.

I love horror movies.

The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that’s playing with your thoughts and mind, that’s scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

Horror is my favorite genre, but there have been a few horror movies that have properly scared me and that I don’t jump back in to watch over and over.

The Shining’ is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

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

When I was a kid, I was really into ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Friday the 13th.’ But as I got older and started working as an actor, I did not really get scared by horror movies as much, so I am not as into them anymore.

I love all horror movies.

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, ‘whoa how’d they do that?’

Signing up for ‘It Follows,’ I didn’t have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don’t care about the characters, you’ve lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

People don’t call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don’t know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

I stopped watching horror movies after I watched ‘Candyman’ when I was – I don’t know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, ‘Candyman,’ and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

I didn’t watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn’t watch any bad movies.

I don’t watch horror movies – they freak me out.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don’t watch them. It’s a feeling I don’t want to have in cinema. I’m too reactive. It’s too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There’s nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you’re going to be scared to death. There’s something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like ‘The Exorcist’, ‘The Shining’, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Though I’ve been in horror movies, I just can’t watch them. The first time I watched a ‘Harry Potter’ movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I’m watching newer ones, like ‘Chucky’ or ‘Saw’ or whatever, I’m like, ‘Come on, really, this isn’t even good, all it is is blood and knives.’ I like when it has a story line, you know? When it’s actually a movie.

I’m not a huge fan of horror movies, but I like a few within the genre.

The truth is there are people who love horror movies. I don’t happen to be one of those people.

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that’s why it’s been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.

Our company, it’s, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood’s a lot about ego and money and, ‘My movie cost $200m!,’ you know?