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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.

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 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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

This man can make a horror movie without makeup.

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

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

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

To this day I still watch tons of horror.

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)

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.

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.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

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.

Weirdly, I'm not a horror fan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

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.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.