Gothic Atmosphere Quotes

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson. Not only is that a scary movie, it's just a flat out classic.

We went all dark and grimy for 'Riverdale.'

I think the first 'Hellraiser' is a work of genius.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

I love '80s horror.

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

Judge Doom is such an evil cartoon! It was just such fun to do. I liked the whole mystique of it: the long cape, the glasses, and all that stuff. You grow up with horror films as a kid, and it all seemed to be embodied in that one guy.

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.