I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.
I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave, which is itself the world’s largest pile of bird and bat poo, into a seething mass of invertebrate horror!
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
When they made ‘Rocky Horror’ in the ’70s, they had no idea it would become this 41-year phenomenon that it has become.
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
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 love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the ’70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.
I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn’t work out.
Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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.
A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.
I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody’s there watching, getting involved and screaming. That’s when it’s most alive and exciting for me.
I’m never interested in movies where you don’t care about the people you’re watching, and that’s my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can’t even walk into the room when she’s watching them with her friends.
I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers’ community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.
For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter.
That’s also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it’s really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.
With the exception of ‘Descent,’ that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn’t seen anything like that before.
I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn’t like a good horror movie every once in a while? It’s fun to get scared.
I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they’re willing to give to the picture.
I didn’t watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn’t watch any bad movies.
The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people’s consciousness.
I don’t watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life – suffering, horror, love, loss, hate – all of it.
When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on ‘Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,’ we learned she didn’t allow him to have a girlfriend until he’d finished university, and she learned – to her unfeigned horror – that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.
One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.
‘Rocky Horror’ is not a movie – it’s a movement. It is a made by the fans, and it is what it is because of what the fans have done.
I don’t do girlfriendy sort of things, like shopping or going to spas. Spas fill me with horror. Frankly, I’d be more interested in doing a walk through the sewers of London!
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It’s a great setting for a horror story.
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
Monsters don’t scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it’s a great medium for horror.
I’ve been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
I’m such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I’m inspired by so much – from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Halloween’. Just show me something that doesn’t suck, and I’m happy.
I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
I think most character people that you talk to, it’s like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won’t do anything that’s immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.
I’ve always suffered from being labelled a horror writer – just because I didn’t go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I’m not as articulate as Martin Amis.
Before ‘Lord of the Rings,’ some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
When we were making ‘Teddy Perkins,’ we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might’ve seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.
In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.
There’s just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there’s something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you’re usually going to have a good time.
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who’s struggling, basically – who’s had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can’t start companies.
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
I’ve never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
