Top 77 Horror Movie Quotes

You know, being an ‘other’ in this world, you’re walking around in a horror movie at all times, you’re always on edge and wondering when the monster is going to jump out and get you. I feel like that’s the experience of African-Americans and queer people in America.

Musically, there’s a movement called the flatted fifth that’s really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It’s like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

I was watching ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ – the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

My number one horror movie is the ’60s British version of ‘Ten Little Indians.’ This movie scared me to death when I was a kid – I still dream about it.

I am actually scared of even watching a horror movie.

‘The Shining’ has always been my favorite horror movie. It is scary and incredibly psychological without relying on blood and gore. Jack Nicholson’s performance is absolutely mind-blowing. And the mood and the feel is definitely metal.

I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.

If you’re doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

I was at the grocery store just buying lemons, and a person turns to me and says, ‘Hey, you’re the kid in the horror movie, right? Can I get a picture?’ It was really random.

I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

I’m a horror movie fan; I’m an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.

People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved – privately. It’s the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it’s to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on ‘Hellraiser’ or ‘Jennifer 8’ – one of those really orchestral scores.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I’m a fan. My perspective’s a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

I love a good harsh horror movie, when it’s done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone’s just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down – a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.

If you’re going to make a horror movie, it doesn’t get any better than ‘Alien,’ and if you’re going to make an action movie, it really doesn’t get any better than ‘Aliens.’

I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I’m not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don’t make many really good ones any more.

I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.

When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.

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 ain’t gonna get this, it’s a horror movie, it’s hard to act scared.

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he’s a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing ‘Sinister.’ Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it’d be really scary on set.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It’s very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.

I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I’m not a huge horror fan.

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!

It’s not that I won’t do any horror movie. The script has to be good and also the execution has to be perfect to attract the viewers.

I’m always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

I’ve never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It’s an overactive imagination or something.

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.

Sometimes I have little movies that I’ve made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror movie called ‘Sensored’ which I’m very creepy and disgusting in, and then I have a family drama called ‘The Legends of Nethiah’ which has a science-fiction B-story.

I don’t think ‘Mulholland Drive’ is a horror movie.

The problem with ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn’t sustain an R.

I like the scene in the first ‘Scream’ movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she’s looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that’s where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie.

If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

If I’m going to direct a horror movie, I’d have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal.

I love horror movie soundtracks like ‘It Follows’ or ‘Halloween.’

I’m so excited to see ‘Horns’ because it’s so many different genres in one film. It’s a sci-fi, it’s a love story, it’s a horror movie, it’s a fairy tale.

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.

I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It’s about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.

A good horror movie – it doesn’t matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn’t matter how much you think it’s going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you… the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it’s going to freeze your blood.

The Lighthouse’ couldn’t have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent’s ‘Nightingale’ is more horrific than any horror movie – but also, I don’t think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.

That’s what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It’s not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they’re mirrors of our own reflections.

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.