Great Horror Movie Quotes

People love to be scared. And the safest way to experience the thrills and chills being frightened provides is to watch horror movies. Although some horror films are looked down upon for having incompetent acting, or low budgets, or rehashed plots, or monsters that look a little too fake (the zippers running up the backs of the costumes too obvious) others have become legitimate classics and are respected as masterpieces that transcend the genre. Below are 31 quotes from a number of horror favorites. As you read them, think of the thousands of people who screamed or squirmed in their seats upon hearing them for the first time.

"The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." --Narrator, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

"A boy's best friend is his mother." --Norman Bates, Psycho

"I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blind, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up for I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil." -Dr. Sam Loomis, Halloween

"You're gonna need a bigger boat." -Jaws

Scary pumpkin.

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