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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and brings that to life on screen in such a way that we can get close enough to that character to let our defenses down and want them to be safe.

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

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

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.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

A really good horror film has a story.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

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.

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.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which gradually formed into words. Fireheart stared at her in horror as he made out what she was trying to say. "Pack, pack," she whispered. "Kill, kill.

Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.