Julian Barratt Quotes

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.

When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.

I really appreciate gory movies.

I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

The great thing about horror films is that they work on a low budget. The genre is the star. You don't need big movie stars, and I actually think a lot of times that the best horror films are the low budget contained ones.

I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.

I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.