Top 68 Scary Horror Sayings
#1. I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
David Naughton
#2. Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
#3. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.
Kat Stiles
#4. That's scary, all the time to be afraid Wreck 2015 (Film, you should check it out).
Deyth Banger
#6. Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.
R.A. Horn
#7. It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
Josh Hartnett
#8. Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.
Jason Blum
#9. Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
("A Dream of Fear")
George Sterling
#10. I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.
Marco Beltrami
#11. I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.
Kevin D. Williamson
#12. You're just spooked. It's Halloween; we're all kind of spooked. That's just the way it is. - Tory
Matthew Leeth
#13. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
Robert Englund
#14. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.
N.J. Hallard
#15. The best horror novels open up, It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.
Justin Alcala
#16. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Josh Hamilton
#17. There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary ... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
Christine Elise
#18. This isn't how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.
Not this.
Aaron Dries
#19. If you had to put my love life into a genre, it would probably be horror. By the same token, I'm not even sure that the master of scary shit, Stephen King, could adequately express it on paper.
Katie Ashley
#20. I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.
Elena Satine
#21. His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis sneer from his dreams-though he never told it to move. He is powerless now, a spectator at his own moment of glory.
Joseph Garraty
#22. The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.
Taissa Farmiga
#23. It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story.
Deyth Banger
#24. I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.
Shailene Woodley
#25. Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
Guillermo Del Toro
#26. 'The Conjuring' is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It's a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like 'Psycho' or 'The Others.'
Toby Emmerich
#27. I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.
Daniel Jacobs
#28. I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
Illeana Douglas
#29. I'm not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. - Tory
Matthew Leeth
#30. Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.
Michael Rasmussen
#31. I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Lana Parrilla
#32. I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.
Joe Hill
#33. Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar...
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#34. What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
Stephen Helmes
#35. In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.
Alexandre Aja
#36. So this didn't scare you, didn't it???
So you want something scary...???
Deyth Banger
#37. Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
Roy Blount Jr.
#38. After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.
Sanhita Baruah
#40. For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
Ehren Kruger
#41. 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.
Chris Carmack
#42. Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#43. She was a predator - a creature of the night who rejoiced in the thrill of the hunt.
Alan Kinross
#44. You're forgetting ... we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I'm thinking he's expecting one this year as well. - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#45. 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.
Jason Blum
#46. I've been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn't that be so cool! - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#47. I'm getting the feeling that you two don't like me. - Kristy
Matthew Leeth
#48. The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
Kary Mullis
#49. Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"
Leigh Whannell
#50. People says it gets easier. People are stupid.
-Vlad
Heather Brewer
#51. I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
Katee Sackhoff
#52. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#53. I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
Melissa De La Cruz
#54. If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.
Kevin D. Williamson
#55. No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.
John Raptor
#56. When people are talking about soul and other stuff and how other people communicate - it's not scary it's something normal???
...Okay then but why you are afraid of horror films with paranormal stuff?? Why???
Deyth Banger
#57. The road up and the road down are one and the same.
Heraclitus
H.I.M.
#58. Laugh as much as possible, because one moment will stop this moment.
Deyth Banger
#59. If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
Don Roff
#60. Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.
Derek The Ghost
#61. In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them scary again.
Stephen King
#62. You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
Maisie Williams
#63. The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
Eli Roth
#64. Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
Clive Barker
#65. I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
Sergio Aragones
#66. We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks ... damsels.
Nenia Campbell
#68. The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.
Keke Palmer
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