Oren Peli Quotes

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

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 know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

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

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I think suspense is a big thing.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'