What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.
What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.
Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.
I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.
The doctor said, 'You have a lump on your breast'. Hearing those words was a reminder, a kick up the bum if you like, telling me that life is very unpredictable.
I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]
For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
