Horror's Most Famous Movie Quotes
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The Great Horror Quotes of Cinema
When I first set out to make this list, I decided that I should impose some rules upon myself in order to keep the article interesting and varied, but as I continued to collect horror film quotes, I realized that was impossible. Why keep amazing dialogue and scary sayings off this list when that's why people are visiting it? I'll use my own judgement as a fan of scary movies to keep this lens interesting and if that means including lesser known quotes from horror movies and multiple horror film quotes from a single movie, then so be it.
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Horror Movie Quotes (1-20)
Dracula: To die. To be really dead, that must be glorious!
2- An American Werewolf in London - 1981 (actor: David Naughton)
David: I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!
3- The Lost Boys - 1987 (actor: Barnard Hughes)
Grandpa: Well, now, let me put it this way. If all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, we'd have one hell of a population problem.
4- Fright Night - 1985 (actor: Chris Sarandon)
Jerry Dandridge: Welcome to Fright Night. For real.
5- The Prophecy - 1995 (actor: Christopher Walken)
Gabriel: Ah, I can always smell a graveyard.
6- Frankenstein - 1931 (actor: Colin Clive)
Dr. Frankenstein: It's alive! It's alive!
7- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - 1986 (actor: Bill Moseley)
Chop Top: Peel that pig and slice him thick.
8- Motel Hell - 1980 (actor: Rory Calhoun)
Vincent Smith: Meat's meat, and a man's gotta eat.
9- Night of the Living Dead - 1968 (actor: Russell Streiner)
Johnny: They're coming to get you, Barbara!
10- The Shining - 1980 (actor: Jack Nicholson)
Jack Torrance: Here's Johnny!
11- Dawn of the Dead - 1978 (actor: Ken Foree)
Peter: When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
12- Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1992 (actor: Gary Oldman)
Dracula: Listen to them. The children of the night. What sweet music they make.
13- Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI - 1986 (actress: Nancy McLoughlin)
Lizabeth: I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
14- Shaun of the Dead - 2004 (various people)
Repeated Line: (to Shaun) You've got red on you.
15- The Hitcher - 1986 (actor: Rutger Hauer)
John Ryder: You wanna know what happens to an eyeball when it gets punctured?
16- Zombieland - 2009 (actor: Woody Harrelson)
Tallahassee: Time to nut up or shut up!
17- The People Under the Stairs - 1991 (actor: Brandon Quintin Adams)
Fool: Your father's one sick mother, you know that? Actually, your mother's one sick mother, too!
18- Candyman - 1992 (actor: Tony Todd)
Candyman: They will say that I have shed innocent blood. What's blood for, if not for shedding?
19- 28 Days Later - 2002 (actor: Christopher Eccleston)
Major Henry West: I promised them women.
20- The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1945 (actor: Hurd Hatfield)
Dorian Gray: If only it was the picture who was to grow old, and I remain young. There's nothing in the world I wouldn't give for that. Yes, I would give even my soul for it.
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Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Watching this film with the lights turned off stil more...3 points
The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering w more...2 points
Suspiria (Two-Disc Special Edition)
One of the most beautifully shot horror films that more...2 points
Dawn of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
As modern society is consumed by zombie carnage, f more...1 point
The Return of the Living Dead
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to th more...1 point
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Who else had trouble sleeping after seeing this on more...1 point
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition)
It has been called "grisly," "sick," more...1 point
Horror Movie Quotes (21-40)
Hannibal Lector: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
22- The Hills Have Eyes - 1977 (actress: Susan Lanier)
Brenda: We're gonna be French fries! Human French fries!
23- Pet Sematary - 1989 (actor: Fred Gwynne)
Jud Crandall: Sometimes dead is better.
24- Hostel - 2005 (actor: Jan Vlasak)
The Dutch Businessman: You want to go? Is that what you want? (proceeds to cut the Achilles tendon on each foot of victim before uncuffing him)
25- Rosemary's Baby - 1968 (actress: Mia Farrow)
Rosemary Woodhouse: This is no dream! This is really happening!
26- A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984 (actress: Heather Langenkamp)
Nancy: Whatever you do, don't fall asleep.
27- The Last House on the Left - 1972 (actor: David Hess)
Krug Stillo: Piss your pants.
28- Hellraiser - 1987 (actor: Doug Bradley)
Lead Cenobite (Pinhead): (after being asked who they are) Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some. Angels to others.
29- The Sixth Sense - 1999 (actor: Haley Joel Osment)
Cole Sear: I see dead people.
30- Saw II - 2005 (actor: Tobin Bell)
John/Jigsaw: Oh yes, there will be blood.
31- Child's Play - 1988 (voice actor: Brad Dourif)
Chucky: Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?
32- House of 1000 Corpses - 2003 (actor: Bill Moseley)
Otis: It's all true. The boogeyman is real and you found him.
33- Halloween - 1978 (actress: Jamie Lee Curtis)
Laurie Strode: It was the boogeyman.
34- Dead Alive - 1992 (actor: Stuart Devenie)
Father McGruder: I kick ass for the Lord!
35- Nightbreed - 1990 (actor: Oliver Parker)
Peloquin: Everything is true. God's an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow and Midian is where the monsters live.
36- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 1974 (actor: Paul A. Partain)
Franklin: (talking about the hitchhiker) I think we just picked up Dracula.
37- The Exorcist - 1973 (voice of the demon/actress: Mercedes McCambridge)
Demon: What an excellent day for an exorcism.
38- The Omen - 1976 (actress: Holly Palance)
Young Nanny: Look at me, Damien! It's all for you. (she jumps off roof, hanging herself)
39- Poltergeist - 1982 (actress: Heather O'Rourke)
Carol Anne: They're here.
40- Misery - 1990 (actress: Kathy Bates)
Annie Wilkes: I am your number one fan.
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Horror Movie Quotes (41-60)
41- Army of Darkness - 1992 (actor: Bruce Campbell)Ash: This is my boom stick!
42- Phantasm - 1979 (actor: Angus Scrimm)
The Tall Man: Boyyyy!
43- Hellbound: Hellraiser II - 1988 (actor: Doug Bradley)
Pinhead: It is not hands that summon us. It is desire.
44- Jaws - 1975 (actor: Roy Scheider)
Martin Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
45- Seed of Chucky - 2004 (voice actor: Brad Dourif)
Chucky: This is nuts! And I have a very high tolerance for nuts.
46- Psycho - 1960 (actor: Anthony Perkins)
Norman Bates: We all go a little mad sometimes.
47- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight - 1995 (actor: Billy Zane)
The Collector: Do me a favor? Don't scream. Just hear what I've gotta say - and then scream.
48- The Return of the Living Dead - 1985 (actor: John Durbin)
Zombie: Send. More. Paramedics.
49- Scream - 1996 (actor: Jamie Kennedy)
Randy: There's always some stupid bullsh*t reason to kill your girlfriend. That's the beauty of it all! Simplicity! Besides, if it gets too complicated, you lose your target audience.
50- Evil Dead II - 1987 (actor: Bruce Campbell)
Ash: Groovy.
51-Children of the Corn - 1984 (actor: John Franklin)
Isaac: Malachai! He wants you too, Malachai. He wants you too!
52-The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 (actor: Ted Levine)
Buffalo Bill: It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
53-Duel - 1971 (actor: Dennis Weaver)
David Mann: I'd like to report a truck driver who's been endangering my life.
54-Ginger Snaps - 2000 (actress: Katharine Isabelle)
Ginger: Suicide is like... the ultimate fu*k you.
55-Bride of Frankenstein - 1935 (actor: Ernest Thesiger)
Dr. Pretorius: To a new world of gods and monsters!
56-When a Stranger Calls - 1979 (actor: Tony Beckley)
Curt Duncan: Have you checked the children?
57-Soylent Green - 1973 (actor: Charlton Heston)
Detective Thorn: Soylent Green is people!
58-It - 1990 (actor: Tim Curry)
It / Pennywise: I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds, and of children. And you are next!
59-The Lawnmower Man - 1992 (actor: Jeff Fahey)
Jobe Smith: ...my birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.
60-The Black Cat - 1934 (actor: Boris Karloff)
Hjalmar Poelzig: The phone is dead. Do you hear that, Vitus? Even the phone is dead.
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The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (3-Disc Special Edition)
After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, more...1 point
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection
For the first time ever, find all 156 complete epi more...1 point
American Gothic - Complete Series
Finally, the complete cult hit series American Got more...1 point
Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Seasons 1-7
Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from more...1 point
Tales From the Darkside: Complete Series Pack
This 30-minute horror/fantasy anthology series fol more...1 point
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-7) (2010) 39 Disc
Now slaying in one extraordinary collection...this more...0 points
Supernatural: The Complete First Season
Bound by tragedy and blood to a dangerous, otherwo more...0 points
Dexter: The Fifth Season
Dexter gets drawn into helping a victim of one of more...0 points
Fringe: The Complete First Season
Teleportation. Mind control. Invisibility. Astral more...0 points
Being Human: The Complete First Season
Being Human... nobody ever said it was easy. But f more...0 points
Horror Movie Quotes (61-80)
61-Tucker and Dale vs Evil - 2010 (actor: Alan Tudyk)Tucker: Oh hidy ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
62-Eden Lake - 2008 (actor: Jack O'Connell)
Brett: Follow the blood!
63-Funny Games - 2007 (actor: Michael Pitt)
Paul: Whether by knife or whether by gun, losing your life can sometimes be fun.
64-Fido - 2006 (actor: Henry Czerny)
Mr. Bottoms: Is that blood on your zombie?
65-Ichi the Killer - 2001 (actor: Tadanobu Asano)
Kakihara: There's no love in your violence.
66-Stir of Echoes - 1999 (actor: Kevin Bacon)
Tom Witzky: Whatever door you opened in my brain, I want you to shut it - now!
67-In the Mouth of Madness - 1994 (actor: Sam Neill)
John Trent: Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years, maybe less, the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children. A myth, nothing more.
68-Hellbound: Hellraiser II - 1988 (actress: Clare Higgins)
Skinless Julia: Now all we need... is skin.
69-They Live - 1988 (actor: Roddy Piper)
Nada: I have come here to chew bubblegum an kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
70-Near Dark - 1987 (actor: Bill Paxton)
Severen: I hate 'em when they ain't been shaved.
71-Angel Heart - 1987 (actor: Mickey Rourke)
Harry Angel: I gotta thing about chickens.
72-Aliens - 1986 (actress: Carrie Henn)
Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
73-Pieces - 1982 (actor: Frank Brana)
Sgt. Holden: I'll send you a box of lollipops.
74-Basket Case - 1982 (actress: Terri Susan Smith)
Sharon: What's in the basket? Easter eggs?
75-The Beyond - 1981
Narrator: And you will face the sea of darkness, and all therein that may be explored.
76-The Howling - 1981 (actor: Patrick Macnee)
Dr. George Waggner: We should never try to deny the beast - the animal within us.
77-The Changeling - 1980 (actress: Ruth Springford)
Minnie Huxley: That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people.
78-Piranha - 1978 (actor: Paul Bartel)
Dumont: People eat fish, Grogan. Fish don't eat people.
79-Bloodsucking Freaks - 1976 (actor: Seamus O'Brien)
Master Sardu: Her mouth shall make an interesting urinal!
80-Needful Things - 1993 (actor: Max von Sydow)
Leland Gaunt: I've always enjoyed ladies who take great pride in themselves.
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Horror Movie Quotes (81-100)
Willard: Tear him up!
82-The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - 1970 (actor: Enrico Maria Salerno)
Inspector Morosini: Bring out the perverts!
83-The Haunting - 1963 (actor: Richard Johnson)
Dr. John Markway (voice-over): An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there... walked alone.
84-Peeping Tom - 1960 (Esmond Knight)
Arthur Baden: The silly b*tch! She's fainted in the wrong scene!
85-The Brides of Dracula - 1960
Narrator: Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black, unfathomed lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to it's close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires, is dead, but his disciples live on, to spread the cult and corrupt the world.
86-Black Sunday - 1960 (actor: Andrea Checchi)
Dr. Thomas Kruvajan: You have no reason to fear the dead. They sleep very soundly.
87-House on Haunted Hill - 1959 (actor: Elisha Cook Jr.)
Watson Pritchard: Only the ghosts in this house are glad we're here.
88-Creature from the Black Lagoon - 1954 (actor: Richard Carlson)
David Reed: We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it.
89-The Mummy - 1932 (actor: Boris Karloff)
Imhotep: Excuse me... I dislike being touched... an Eastern prejudice.
90-Freaks - 1932 (actor: Henry Victor)
Hercules: They're going to make you one of them, my peacock!
91-The Wolf Man - 1941 (actor: Ralph Bellamy)
Col. Montford: Just imagine having a stuffed werewolf staring at you from the wall!
92-The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1945 (actor: George Sanders)
Lord Henry Wotton: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
93-Land of the Dead - 2005 (actor: Dennis Hopper)
Kaufman: Zombies, man. They creep me out.
94-Lord of Illusions - 1995 (actor: Daniel von Bargen)
Nix: I was born to murder the world.
95-The Prophecy - 1995 (actor: Christopher Walken)
Gabriel: I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.
96-The Thing - 1982 (actor: Richard Masur)
Clark: I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and p*ssed off, whatever it is.
97-Ravenous - 1999 (actor: Jeffrey Jones
Colonel Hart: It's lonely being a cannibal. Tough making friends.
98-Maximum Overdrive - 1986 (actress: Laura Harrington)
Brett: Maybe tomorrow it will be our world again.
99-The Abominable Dr. Phibes - 1971 (actor: Vincent Price)
Dr. Phibes: What lovely music for a murder... or two... or three.. or nine.
100-House of Usher - 1960 (actor: Vincent Price)
Roderick Usher: Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?
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Hillbillies are usually the bad guys in most horror movies, but this one turns that unfair stereotype on its ear. Tucker and Dale are two country boys that are going out to their summer home to do a little fishing when a run in with a bunch of college kids and a lot of misunderstandings force them to fight for their lives.
This one has plenty of gore and violence for the horror fans and plenty of laughs for the comedy fan, so either can watch it without fear of it not representing the genre. All I can say is... watch it. You won't be sorry.
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Even More Scary Sayings From Some of the Most Terrifying Films In the World
Warning: The following disturbing quotes may bother some people.
101-The Devil's Rejects - 2005 (actor: Bill Moseley)Otis: I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work.
102-American Psycho - 2000 (actor: Christian Bale)
Patrick Bateman: I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
103-Friday the 13th - 1980 (actor: Walt Gorney)
Crazy Ralph: You're doomed! You're all doomed!
104-Hellraiser - 1987
Asian Merchant: What's your pleasure, sir?
105-Child's Play -1988
Chucky: Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?
106-Maniac - 1980 (actor: Joe Spinell)
Frank Zito: I told you not to go out tonight didn't I? Every time you go out this kind of thing happens.
107-A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984 (actors: children voice over)
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Three, four, better lock your door.
Five, six, grab your crucifix.
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late.
Nine, ten, never sleep again.
Your Favorite Horror Film Quotes?
Why not share some of those scary sayings from movies not found in the above article?
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stabforddeathrage
May 2, 2012 @ 11:54 am | delete
- Very interesting!
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eonicrush
Apr 15, 2012 @ 4:03 pm | delete
- Man, this makes me want to go home and watch some movies!
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NeverTooLate2012
Apr 12, 2012 @ 4:37 pm | delete
- You have hit 99% of my favorites. Very good! We actually have a Bates Motel a few miles from us. No way would I stay there!
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Scared Lady
Apr 11, 2012 @ 2:42 pm | delete
- Some of these sayings are scary only if you've seen the movie, while others can scare the heck out of anyone.
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Coe
Apr 3, 2012 @ 3:30 pm | delete
- You have a great collection of fright movie quotes!
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ZodiacImmortal
Jan 27, 2012 @ 4:21 pm | delete
- Great Lens it being included in one of the Featured lenses sections on my Upcoming (currently Unpublished) HORRORween lens.
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ottoblotto Dec 8, 2011 @ 6:56 pm | delete
- Well done!!!
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Oosquid
Nov 16, 2011 @ 2:48 am | delete
- "Listen to them. The children of the night. What sweet music they make." Wasn't that line in the Lugosi version as well as the Oldman version? Great list of quotes, you've done a great job with this lens. Oh and by the way, you've got red on you.
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pawpaw911 Nov 7, 2011 @ 9:18 am | delete
- Excellent list of quotes. Nicely done.
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spartakct
Nov 3, 2011 @ 7:46 pm | delete
- Nice lens!
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KK
Oct 15, 2011 @ 5:37 am | delete
- I always put some cool horror movie quotes on all of my Halloween cards I send out. Give us some more. You should also make a lens with quotes that people don't know about (less popular).
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Todd
Sep 17, 2011 @ 12:13 pm | delete
- There is a similar clip on YouTube to the one you have that has 100 famous horror movie quotes that is a lot better. You should check it out. One of my favorite sayings from the Hellraiser movie is "We have such sights to show you!" I use that one all the time in real life.
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Walt
Sep 5, 2011 @ 7:56 am | delete
- Dude! There are just too many good horror movies out there with great dialogue for you limit them one per movie. Do us all a favor and think about changing those rules. One thing I do love is that you are giving credit to the actor or actress. People just don't realize that the one thing that makes a great quote is how it is delivered by the talent. One of my favorite is from the movie Aliens (by the little girl). "They mostly come at night. Mostly."
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Devin
Apr 19, 2011 @ 8:06 am | delete
- Here is a good one from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth that gives me the creeps every time I read it.
" Unbearable, isn't it? The suffering of strangers, the agony of friends. There is a secret song at the center of the world and its sound is like razors through flesh."
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Bob
Apr 9, 2011 @ 1:05 pm | delete
- It's a shame you're only doing one from each movie, but I understand why you did it. One of my favorites is from "Silence of the Lambs."
"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."
Horror movies rule!
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