Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
Some things are too terrible to be true.
I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.
I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.