Top 80 Horror Films Quotes

I’ve always wanted to do a horror film. I don’t know if my agent will be happy I said that when I get sent some crap horror films, but I’d like to do a good one, like ‘It Follows,’ or ‘The Babadook.’

Not many people realize this, but I’m a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

I don’t watch horror films at all and if at all I see, then my mother gets really bugged. She switches off the television and tells me not to destroy her sleep and happiness.

‘Alien’ is one of my all-time favorite horror films – that has a great monster.

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don’t understand. Internal is the human heart.

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn’t want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn’t want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned ‘Saw’ as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

I would love to do more horror films.

Horror films can be of different kinds. But ‘Aaviri’ is not a horror film. It’s a thriller against the backdrop of a family.

I didn’t want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some – very few.

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don’t have the stomach for it. I’ve seen a few in my lifetime, like ‘The Shining’ or ‘Carrie,’ but I can’t sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

As far as horror films are concerned, I guess Vikram Bhatt is a brand name.

I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.

When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they’re not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.

‘Hereditary’ is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it’s in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I’m never affected by anything if I’m not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

When I was younger, I’d make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I’m working on horror films. I’m just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

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.

I don’t think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

I’m a big fan of horror films, particularly ‘Friday the 13th.’ It’s one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques into the mainstream; having to be spooky requires a little more creativity.

I’m honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.

When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, ‘Pinhead and Basket Case.’

I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents’ room because I would be so scared.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it’s all just about kills and stuff like that.

Tobe Hooper – he did my favorite horror movie, ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre.’ It’s still one of my favorite horror films.

I do like horror films, but I wouldn’t ever be interested in putting a horror on stage – blood doesn’t equal horror.

The horror films that I’ve made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that’s the purpose of horror. I don’t see that happening very often.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film.

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don’t.

I like stuff like ‘Top Gun.’ I like horror films. I love them.

There’s a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

In most horror films, you don’t really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

As an audience, I must share that I was never a fan of a horror films.

Horror films in India always have a strong love story.

I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indulging in gothic literature without the balance of other types of art and entertainment. I do think that’s a danger.

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

I don’t like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like ‘Saw,’ I don’t like that, I don’t.

There are some people who shouldn’t watch horror films, and I’m all right with that.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

Money is not the only reason why I make horror films.

I think there’s an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the ‘Saw’ movies.

Most horror films fail to scare me.

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.

Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that most of the good horror films made in the U.S. are indie films. You might get ‘The Ring’ or ‘The Others,’ but most are independently produced.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the ‘Evil Dead’ family thinks that way.

I still think ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Psycho’ were just landmarks for those horror films.

‘Insidious’ is independent. It’s like the ‘Clerks’ of horror films, you know?

It’s a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

It’s a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there’s still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that’s not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

I’m actually a fan of horror films.

Judge Doom is such an evil cartoon! It was just such fun to do. I liked the whole mystique of it: the long cape, the glasses, and all that stuff. You grow up with horror films as a kid, and it all seemed to be embodied in that one guy.

It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the ‘perfect horror film’, and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that’s what I find funny.

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.

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to ‘Spaceballs,’ then it’s just kind of contrived.

There’s been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. ‘The Babadook’ is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. ‘The Witch’ is a beautifully made film. ‘Get Out’ is so intelligently written. I feel like there’s so many great things happening right now.

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.

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.

I’m pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

I’m a fan of films in general; I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.

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.

I’m a big fan of the first one, but one of the first horror films I ever saw on my own was ‘Halloween II.’ That was my first real experience of Halloween as a concept because in Sweden in the Eighties, we didn’t celebrate Halloween.

I am actually terrified of horror films.

I don’t try to sanction other people’s joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy – you know, like fear, desire or laughter – create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films… The boundaries cannot be defined. It’s to each his own.

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

I’ve never really liked horror films.

No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you’ve done ‘Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,’ you can handle anything!

I love Sam Raimi. ‘Evil Dead 2’ is one of my favorite films. It’s one of the best cheaper horror films I’ve ever seen. Horror films and suspense films can be made on a low budget without big stars and be very effective.

The black community has always been a fan of horror films, but in terms of the participants, they’ve been few and far between.

I don’t watch horror films, because I don’t want those images in my psyche, and I resent having them forced on me before a movie of my choosing.