George A. Romero
Filmmaker
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
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Horror Genre
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Stephen King
Author
"The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works."
Roy Lee
Artist
"I do think that once a horror genre is commonly parodied in other movies it sort kills that genre or that specific take on that genre. Once it sort of becomes a joke in and of itself, so you have to push and find something new."
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