Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
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Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.
I'm a big fan of horror, personally.
Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
I love horror movies.
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.