In horror movies today it’s lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
I didn’t even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.
People want a story – and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.
You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for ‘Pineapple Express’, and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different genres and mish-mashing them up to create something dynamically new. They’ll throw comedy at you, but with a dash of horror and fright that is supposed to make you shocked and scared.
I love ’80s horror.
I set out to do a horror film with ‘Dog Soldiers,’ and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn’t in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.
I’m a fan of short horror fiction… in fact, the most memorable horror I’ve read is of the short variety… but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
The biggest insult is that I’ve been called an exaggerator… I tell the truth as I know it. I don’t glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.
Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris’ books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
I’d love to make a horror movie, that’s definitely where I want to be one day.
Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
I loved ‘Jaws.’ I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.
I have a couple of girlfriends who’ve told me some horror stories but I’ve never had a really terrible kiss before.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
The way humor’s usually used in horror, it’s as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
My background is more horror or thriller, and you can’t get better than horror fans, as far as I’m concerned.
Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This is also a great chance to scare and entertain audiences at the same time.
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
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.
I’d never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified – I couldn’t sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn’t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children’s fantasy, until I was in my teens.
This is how I feel about horror films: there’s enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
There was a big horror boom in the ’80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn’t really feel scary.
PG-13 horror, I just don’t watch that.
My earliest memories of horror are ‘Friday the 13th Part 2,’ John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing,’ ‘Halloween,’ ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ and ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’… and ‘Hatchet’ is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
I’m quite a rational person. I’m not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
‘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.
I’m a big horror fan, but I don’t enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.
There are the horror fans that love the ‘Evil Dead’ because of the humor, but I’m sure it’s not all of them. Not all horror fans love ‘Evil Dead’ because of the humor, at least not me.
One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between ‘Goosebumps’ and adult horror.
Slashing its way to the finish line, ‘Black Swan’ is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
I’m always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
People say you’re trapped in this genre. You’re a horror guy. I say wait a minute – I’m able to say exactly what I think. I’m able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what’s going on at the time. I don’t feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
One thing I know that’s true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from ‘point a’ to ‘point b,’ just so that you can end up at ‘point c.’ They are just sort of stick characters. That’s just not interesting to me.
I’m always interested in horror and the supernatural.
I’ve never really liked horror films.
I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
I’m not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.
The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I’ll happily join that list.
I’m not a horror fan. I’m an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.
My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.
Take my wife… please. I’m not saying she’s ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.
I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
The lumpiness of ‘The Good Lie’s progression – from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom – proclaims the film’s respect for facts and truths that can’t be squeezed into a smooth narrative.
At the time I came along, Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
This film is what it is. It’s a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can’t take it too seriously. They are what they are.
