Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This is also a great chance to scare and entertain audiences at the same time.

I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

As far as horror films are concerned, I guess Vikram Bhatt is a brand name.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

When 'The Walking Dead' has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very proud that I was able to write an episode where a little zombie girl could walk out of a barn after a horrific zombie execution and have people cry. That's one of the proudest things I've ever done.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

Western films don't do very well in India.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.