Horror for Weenies Quotes

“Some people will tell you that if it isn’t scary, it isn’t horror, but I think that displays a paucity of imagination.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“BUT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY AVOID IF: Let's be honest. if you're reading this book Hereditary is too scary for you. It's very nearly too scary for me, and this is my job.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO WATCH IF you want to have a straight-up bad time watching a beautifully made, impeccably acted work of emotional terrorism”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“Get Out’s runaway success led to an almost-immediate boom in what became known as “social horror,” a weirdly banal descriptor for horror movies and books that engage directly with racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and bigotry. It’s sort of a misleading term, implying that this is a recent cultural development—if you take one thing away from this book, let it be that horror has always engaged with social issues.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“As with clowns, there’s no such thing as a benign doll in a horror movie. (I would argue there’s no such thing as a benign doll in real life, either.) Call them Uncanny Valley Girls.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“In 2018, critic Angelica Jade Bastién wrote a cri de coeur for Vulture that argued against reducing a horror film’s merits to whether or not it scared you. Bastién posits a more expansive definition of horror, one I’ve fully embraced: it’s a genre that explores fear, how it motivates and shapes our lives and those of the characters we’re watching.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“From tentpole franchises to acclaimed, cerebral indie productions like It Follows and Hereditary, there’s something for everyone out there right now. All you have to do is open the door and let it in.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“You can’t have a conversation about The Blair Witch Project’s influence without talking about the film’s innovative guerrilla marketing—it was, in a sense, the first movie to achieve what we now think of as virality.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“One of the dominant modes of nineties horror filmmaking was to make a horror story and refuse to call it horror (a deeply irritating tendency that jumped formats into horror literature as well).”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

“BUT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY AVOID IF you’d prefer to skip splashy gore, the aftermath of suicide, or the threat of sexual assault and forced pregnancy, or if you’ve lived in a post-Brexit UK.”
― Emily C. Hughes, Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch