Horror Quotes

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

We sent in a five man rescue team, but within a few hours of landing on the island, all but one of them was killed.

I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.

I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F*CKING COUCH!

We have all been beaten up in our careers, because horror is viewed as a low-rent genre, just a notch or two above pornography. And while it's true that we traffic in dark areas of violence and horror in our profession, because we get everything out on the screen and don't carry it around with us, we really are mostly nice guys.

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned.

Usually there are from a dozen to forty women really involved in every murder.

One of television's greatest contributions is that it brought back murder into the home where it belongs.

The horror! The horror!

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
Better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again
Werewolves of London

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes into my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
"Go to sleep, everything is alright"

Bela Lugosi's dead
The bat's have left the bell tower
The victim's have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

Eddie! You better start dawdling, or you're going to be on time for school!