Vikram Bhatt Quotes

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.

I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.

In 'Crush,' it still has a lot of elements of other genres, and then the horror is layered on top of it, especially towards the end.

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

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

In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors... Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Eric Bana, and Tom Wilkinson, people who don't do horror normally.

The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.

I find 'Chainsaw' to be a very relaxing film.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

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

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

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

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

I like the scene in the first 'Scream' movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she's looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that's where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.