Across 100+ years, horror audiences have witnessed some of the most terrifying and disturbing acts committed to film, but it’s not just what the characters are doing that makes for memorable moments. What they’re saying can have just as much of an impact, and the best horror movies of all time are filled with some of cinema history’s most memorable quotes.
To be sure, the following list of memorable horror movie quotes isn’t solely a round-up of the genre’s most famous or overused utterances and declarations. Rather, it’s a more general assortment of wicked, off-kilter, and/or darkly amusing pieces of dialogue that I (and presumably others) have been repeating in the many years since the respective films were released. So some of them will be quite popular, such as the following promise from the Hell Priest himself.
