Christopher Young Quotes

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's what you're going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture.

I love horror movie soundtracks like 'It Follows' or 'Halloween.'

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

I've always loved Salem, and I love the title of Scream Queen.

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.

I can't watch most movies because they scare me too much.

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.

Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.

I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.

It's a pleasure to join the ranks of Debbie Rochon, Linnea Quigley, and Heather Langenkamp as one of America's most recognizable Scream Queens!

I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for.

One of the most crucial aspects of a haunted house movie is the fear and disbelief of the characters, because they don't know what's happening to them.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

I'm a big horror fan. I'm a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

"That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us... all those things." But buried alive?! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know the one with all the horror." "I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" "Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me."

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.