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There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's what you're going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

There have been a lot of horror anthologies as of late; movies like V/H/S and The ABCs of Death have brought the anthology back in style. We sort of felt like, "Why don't we do one and do our own thing?

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

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.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's hard to believe even now that in 1930s and 1940s, before something like this had happened, that it could be impossible to imagine the extent of this horror.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

This man can make a horror movie without makeup.

To this day I still watch tons of horror.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Weirdly, I'm not a horror fan, but those kind of horror leanings are something that are very easy for me to get into.

Weirdly, I'm not a horror fan.

What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.