Jason Blum Quotes

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and 'The Exorcist' and 'Psycho' were just landmarks for those horror films.

I used to love those movies, back in the day, like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Shining.' I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies.

I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'

I can not watch either of the 'Paranormal' films alone.

I love '80s horror.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

'Night of the Living Dead' is one of my favorites.

Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.'

They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.

'The Conjuring' is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It's a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like 'Psycho' or 'The Others.'

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

The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

I really liked 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween,' and 'Scream.'

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.