Silvio O. Conte Quotes

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore conscript the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans

'The Shining' scares me so much.

I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'

I love 'The Shining.' Kubrick is pretty amazing.

I love splashing the blood around.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

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