Horror Film Quotes

Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

One Missed Call,' it was regarded as a mainstream film for my career because it was big budget and filmed in Japan and it really opened wide in Japan, it did really well commercially. So I was really surprised.

'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

I want to direct a feature film. Horror is my main genre.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away from me. It was thought that its meaning wasn't... Its meaning didn't chime with the producers.

I think the first 'Hellraiser' is a work of genius.

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

One of my favorite films is 'Let the Right One In.'

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.