Horror Quotes - Page 5

• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

  Robert Englund

  Wise, Modern, Tricks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

  Andrew Pyper

  Interesting, Psychological

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• ... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Choices, Obscenity

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• Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Doe, Daylight, Broads

  Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

  Eli Roth

  Different, Way, Comedy

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

  Joss Whedon

  People

  "Joss Whedon on writing horror and superheroes for fanboys and casual viewers alike". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I often think off-screen horror is more effective, it's the fear of what is lurking around the corner, just out of sight, that can leave you on the edge of your seat.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Thinking, Sight, Corners

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

  Jordan Peele

  Running, People, Imagination

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.

  Barbara Harbach

  Night, Darkness, Emotion

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets of gore in movies. These are movies that, for the most part, still stand up to this day. But I guess the real reason for my love and obsession with this period is these were my first horror movies. I was a teenager during the '80s and I think spending that part of your life in that particular time really has an impact on you for the rest of your life.

  Neil Marshall

  Fun, Real, Teenager

  Source: dailydead.com

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• When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Broken, Done

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I think that laughter is very close to terror and horror. Maybe that's just me, but that sort of all - over rush that happens when you are either laughing or terrified or weeping...? I think that comedians, in and of themselves, make other people laugh because they aren't necessarily the happiest people in the world. So they know a lot about dark things.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Laughter, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

  Laird Barron

  Animal, Building, Impulse

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

  David Hayter

  Kids, Film, 80s

  Source: collider.com

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• I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

  Arik Roper

  Growing Up, Healthy, Eras

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Men, People, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!

  John Darnielle

  Character, Writing, Horror Stories

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• With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

  Jordan Peele

  Want, Comedy, Knows

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

  Peter James

  Book, Ghetto, Literature

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Reading, Book, Design

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• There are a lot of war memorials around the UK. It's usually a part of the war memorials. I loved the way The Glorious Dead sounded. It's kind of a strange thing to say. There's nothing particularly glorious about being dead. It sounded like a strange, horror film. It just grew from there, really. It seemed quite apt for the record. We're kind of obsessed with zombie movies and horror films. It seemed like it just fit, at the time.

  Daniel Taylor

  War, Memorial, Zombie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

  Clive Barker

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 15, 2013

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• Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

  Alexandra Breckenridge

  Looks, Film, Excited

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Travel, Self Esteem, Journey

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

  Fanny Burney

  Long, Age, Desire

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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