I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.
I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror – those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like slasher horror… psychological horror like ‘The Shining’ – really good stuff!
In my opinion, the horror genre is a perfect genre for Christians to be involved with. I think the more compelling question is, Why do so many Christians find it odd that a Christian would be working in this genre?
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.
Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It’s not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.
The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of its durability. At one point it was just one of many styles of films called ‘product’ that between, say, 1930 and 1970, the movie city ground out like sausages or hula hoops at a rate of four or five a week.
There are some people who shouldn’t watch horror films, and I’m all right with that.
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
I’m constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
I think if a horror movie is really scary, you’ll think about it for weeks, and there’s something kind of fun about that – about our art, really.
I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I’m a movie lover in general.
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don’t feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Money is not the only reason why I make horror films.
I’m basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies – unless I’m doing a guest star or something – and occasionally I try to get back into television.
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
I’ve always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.
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.
So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one’s fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
I don’t read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of ‘The Exorcist.’ It was the first and last horror book I’ve ever opened.
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it’s like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
Horror film fans are pretty starved for quality. If you do something thoughtful or if you make something good, they’re so thankful for it.
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn’t feel to me like I’m repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I’m kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
Horror fans need horror, okay? They don’t need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that’s not horror.
