Vikram Bhatt Quotes

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

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.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

I enjoy scaring people.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.

Scary things are good, aren't they?

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

I enjoy being slightly scared.

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

I want to surprise people with my work every time.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.