60 Horror Phrases with Which to Feel Authentic Fear

Are you looking for horror phrases with which to test your courage? If you want to fall asleep tonight, it’s better not to continue reading, because these famous phrases and quotes about fear and horror are going to keep you thinking for weeks.

Horror movies, despite giving us a hard time, we love. How is it possible? The adrenaline we secrete when we see other people suffer, we put ourselves in their situation and the mystery keeps us attentive to the screen for hours.

Terror and horror phrases in the cinema

It is this film genre that leaves us with the most brilliant horror phrases In this article we will review some of the most famous and remembered, not only those we have ever heard in the cinema but also in literature and in the world of politics and philosophy.

1. Sometimes I see dead people… (The Sixth Sense)

One of the most remembered, taken from the legendary film starring Bruce Willis.

2. Horror movies don’t create killers… They just make them more creative (Scream)

Another legendary horror movie, and a phrase that can make your hair stand on end.

3. Knowing that you are going to die changes everything. You feel things differently and appreciate them very differently. However, people do not appreciate the value of their lives. They drink from the glass of water, but they don’t taste it. (Saw)

Extracted from the legendary gore film that was released in 2004.

4. I would give anything if the portrait aged, while I remained young. Yes, also my soul. (The Portrait of Dorian Grey)

Captive of his narcissism, young Gray sold his soul to the devil.

5. Then, when the video ends, the phone rings. It’s someone who knows you just saw it; and he just says: “You will die in 7 days.” (The Ring)

A macabre end after watching the famous video of the well.

6. Let’s play a game… (Saw)

This phrase was uttered by the clown on the bicycle to announce that the participants in the gloomy game had to try to escape to atone for their sins.

7. When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. (Dawn of the Living Dead)

A post-apocalyptic horror quote.

8. I’m not an elephant! I’m not an animal! I’m a human being! I am a person! (The elephant Man)

A heartbreaking phrase from the protagonist of this film, Joseph Merrick, affected by a rare disease that disfigured his face. Extracted from the film directed by the great David Lynch.

9. Hello! I’m Chucky, do you want to play? (Chucky)

Behind the appearance of a child’s doll the real diabolical doll was hidden.

10. Have you ever felt those sharp things on the back of your neck? They are… (The Sixth Sense)

Another terrifying phrase taken from M. Night Shyamalan’s film.

11. I am afraid to close my eyes. I’m afraid to open them. (The Blair Witch Project)

A low-cost film that caused a great impact in its time.

12. Pablo, record everything, for your **** mother! (Rec)

One of the few horror films that Spanish cinema has produced.

Phrases about terror spoken by several famous people

To continue, We are going to know different famous phrases about terror that great writers, politicians and thinkers left us of history.

13. To put it quite frankly, a short period of terror is needed in every village. (Mao Zedong)

A way of saying that political authoritarianism is justified in certain historical contexts.

14. Terror reigns in the government, and there is nothing as cruel as fear, when fear has weapons in its hand. (Rafael Barrett)

Fear manages to appease us in the face of power.

15. We believe that there is a limit to fear. However, this is only the case until we encounter the unknown. We all have unlimited amounts of terror. (Peter Hoeg)

If this phrase lets you sleep tonight, you are cold as an iceberg.

16. Terror is the feeling that paralyzes the spirit in the presence of everything that is serious and constant in human suffering and unites it with the secret cause. (James Joyce)

A fairly accurate definition.

17. Terror begets terror, always ready to become counterterrorist terror: endless dialectic of violence. (José Luis Aranguren)

The law of retaliation leads us into a disastrous spiral.

18. Terror has been used repeatedly throughout History to establish an obedient and neutral society in the face of injustice. (Bertrand Regader)

The Spanish psychologist analyzes in this phrase the influence of the regimes of fear.

19. What until then had maintained this practice of torture was not an economy of example, in the sense in which it would be understood in the time of the ideologues (that the representation of punishment prevails over the interest of the crime), but a policy of terror: making the unbridled presence of the sovereign visible to everyone, on the body of the criminal. The torture did not restore justice; reactivated power. (Michel Foucault)

A theorist of biopower, Foucault described the way power bases its authority on terror and self-censorship.

20. The example was sought not only by raising awareness that the slightest infraction ran the risk of being punished, but also by provoking an effect of terror due to the spectacle of power falling on the guilty. (Michel Foucault)

Another famous quote from the French psychoanalyst and sociologist.

21. Politics is made of the words used to justify the terror of the State. (Izzat Haykal)

Words from the Barcelona political scientist and writer.

22. Although in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in terror. (Herman Melville)

To reflect on fear and its hidden facet.

23. Old forms of government grow so oppressive that they must be eliminated, even at the risk of terror reigning.

A great phrase that links politics with oppression and fear.

24. The terror of the politician is a society with the capacity to contrast data. (Jonathan García-Allen)

Ignorance manages to crystallize true psychopaths in power.

25. Evil is just a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, so should we. (Interview with the vampire)

A truly deep and philosophical reflection that we can find in this 1994 film.

26. Once, someone from the census tried to survey me. I ate his liver accompanied by broad beans and a good Chianti. (The silence of the lambs)

In this terrifying 1991 film we can see one of the best performances of Anthony Hopkins’ career.

27. We all go a little crazy… Sometimes. (Psychosis)

This film was released in 1960 and completely changed the horror genre.

28. Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep. (Nightmare in Elm street)

The saga of films starring Freddy Krueger paved the way for one of the greatest milestones in horror cinema of the 80s and a saga that continues to this day.

29. Here’s Johnny! (The glow)

The terrifying Jack Torrance (starring Jack Nicholson) thus announced his entry into the room where his wife and son were hidden.

30. Be afraid. Be very afraid. (The fly)

Classic horror film released in 1986 and directed by David Cronenberg.

31. I am your number 1 fan. (Misery)

Misery tells the story of a successful writer kidnapped by an alienated fan.

32. Mom, my bed is moving. (The Exorcist)

One of the scariest films of all time, released in 1973 and directed by William Friedkin.

33. They are here… (Poltergeist)

We all remember little Carol Anne, announcing the arrival of the ghosts in front of the television.

34. Welcome to my abode. Enter freely, of your own free will, and leave part of the happiness it brings (Dracula)

The Dracula novel has been brought to the big screen countless times, with more or less success.

35. They are all witches! (The seed of the devil)

A true horror film classic that placed Roman Polanski in the firmament of the great Hollywood directors of the 60s.

36. How much blood will you shed to stay alive? (Saw)

A psychological horror film that became a true mass phenomenon.

37. Come play with us. Come play with us, Danny. Forever… Always… Always. (The glow)

There are few scenes more terrifying than the appearance of the twins in the middle of the hallway of the Overlook Hotel.

38. He is alive, he is alive! (Frankenstein)

One of the most remembered versions of Mary Shelley’s novel.

39. I never drink… Wine. (Dracula)

One of the most iconic phrases from Bram Stocker’s novel.

40. I’m not going to hurt you, I’m just going to crush your brains. (The glow)

The scene of Jack Torrance brandishing the ax with which he is preparing to destroy his family has been etched in the retinas of millions of viewers.

41. Look at me Damien, I’m doing it for you. (The prophecy)

The Prophecy is hands down one of the best horror movies of the ’70s.

42. What is your favorite horror movie? (Scream)

Scream is a timeless classic within the slasher horror genre.

43. No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering. (Hellraiser)

The Hellraiser film saga contains horror films that are as unpleasant as they are famous.

44. A child’s best friend is his mother. (Psychosis)

The story of Norman Bates is one of the most terrifying in the history of cinema.

45. Sometimes people think they lose things, but they don’t really lose them. They just move (The Sixth Sense)

In this film we will be able to learn why some objectives that we believe we are losing move.

46. ​​Hello Clarice: Have the lambs stopped squealing yet? (The silence of the lambs)

A phrase that is already iconic, pronounced by Anthony Hopkings, who played Hannibal Lecter in the film.

47. What do you think these ghosts want when they talk to you? (The sixth Sense)

In this 1999 film, a tormented psychiatrist tries to help a child with real problems.

48. A lady in a dirty nightgown appears to me in my dreams (The Warren File: The Conjuring

The first installment of the Warren saga presented us with a set of truly terrifying paranormal events.

49. And I am the Devil, now let go of these damn straps. (The Exorcist)

This film, in addition to becoming the highest grossing in history at its time, was released amid great controversy due to the multiple faintings that occurred at its screenings.

50. It’s not the house that’s haunted… it’s your son. (Insidious)

Insidious was one of the most hopeful discoveries for horror films during the first decade of the 2000s.

51. The pain I have is constant and acute, and I do not wish a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others, for no one to escape. (American Psycho)

This film starring Cristian Bale has become a cult film over more than 20 years.

52. You should never say “Who’s there?” Don’t you watch horror movies? It’s a death wish. (Scream)

Scream is one of the best horror movies of the 90s and has memorable lines like this one.

53. I don’t know each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they are dead. (The sixth Sense)

We all got goosebumps when Cole revealed his terrifying secret to the character played by Bruce Willis.

54. They call us demonologists, paranormal investigators…But we prefer to be called simply Ed and Lorraine Warren. (Warren File: The Conjuring)

The stories told in the Warren File saga are based on the real lives of two professional investigators.

55. Magnificent day for an exorcism. (The Exorcist)

One of the most remembered and terrifying quotes from Friedkin’s film.

56. What if they float? Oh yeah! Of course! They float, they float, Georgie. And when you’re down here, with me, you’ll float too. (ITEM)

The IT clown generated terrifying nightmares in more than a generation of viewers.

57. Is he dead? …They never are (Jeepers Creepers)

One of the constants of horror movies is that the bad guys almost never die permanently.

58. Monsters and ghosts exist. They are within us and sometimes they win. (Stephen King)

This genius of literary horror is currently the greatest exponent of the genre worldwide.

59. Evil resides on the other side. (Sinister)

One of the most famous quotes from what is considered the best horror film of our century.

60. Dear Dani: I can’t take it anymore, everything is getting dark, mom and dad will come too. Bye bye. (Midsommar)

This film was released in 2019 and inaugurated a new genre of outdoor horror.