Nightmare Fuel Quotes

“Sometimes the most powerful gore images end up being the ones that we barely see.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“Horror is a genre as broad as the range of human fears, and it takes as many shapes.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“And with our current understanding of how we are influenced by film and television, claims that mass murders and serial killers have been spurred on by watching too many horror movies are grossly inflated, absolutely garbage takes.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“Anecdotes—and we’ll see a few more in this section—are not evidence.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“Sure, it might be a false alarm and that possible monster might actually just be a faceless coat hanging from a hook on the back of your bedroom door, but remember: those embarrassing false alarms caused by misidentification are greatly outweighed by the advantages of correctly identifying a real threat even once.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“The best scary movies are the ones that make you nervous about walking on staircases or turning out the lights. They’re the movies that have you peeping through your fingers at the screen and keep you up at night afterward.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

“In my experience, all it takes is a conversation to reveal that someone who says they hate horror really means that they hate monster movies, but they actually love the entire Final Destination franchise. Or they hate splatter, gore, and body horror, but love a good haunted house or possession story.”
― Nina Nesseth, Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films