#horror

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#best #character #character development #characters #connection

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror #imagination #dreams

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#cuts #down #go #horror #i

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#bad luck #contingencies #decisions #films #horror

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#consolation #horror #art

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? ↗

— Frank Pittman

#bears #changing #competent #corporations #diaper

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers. ↗

— Gina Philips

#filmmakers #great #hitchcock #horror #horror movies

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie. ↗

— Gina Philips

#few #good #hair #horror #horror movie

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gothic-horror-fiction #hedonism #temptation