History Quotes / NothingIsScarier

->''"You see that door? You wanna know what's behind that door? You don't wanna know what's behind that door. See those bones? You wanna know what made those bones? You don't wanna know what made those bones."''

->'''Sam''': Is this WOOHP? I can't see ''anything''.
->[...]

->'''Alex''': Have I mentioned how much I really don't like the dark? I'm not scared, it's just, you know, you never know what's gonna—''([[ScaryFlashlightFace Jerry turns on a flashlight.]] The girls scream.)''

->'''Alex''': Have I mentioned how much I really don't like the dark? I'm not scared, it's just, you know, you never know what's gonna—''([[ScaryFlashlightFace Jerry turns on a flashlight.]] The girls scream)''

->'''Alex''': Have I mentioned how much I really don't like the dark? I'm not scared, it's just you know, you never know what's gonna—''([[ScaryFlashlightFace Jerry turns on a flashlight.]] The girls scream)''

->--"Aliens", ''TotallySpies''

-->-- Opening sentence, ''TheWhispererInDarkness''

-->-- "Iron Fist" by Motorhead

-->-- ''WizardsHall''

->''"You see that door? You wanna know what's behind that door? You don't wanna know what's behind that door. You see these bones? You wanna know what made these bones? You don't wanna know what made these bones."''

-->-- '''EdgarAllanPoe''', ''The Raven''

-->-- '''TheSimpsons''' on ''The Raven'', ''Treehouse of Horror''

-->-- '''RogerEbert''', [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-thing-2011 review of]] ''Film/TheThing2011''

->''"That was done well in [[Film/TheThing1982 his film]], and it is done with [[SpecialEffectsBeefUp even more technical expertise]] [[Film/TheThing2011 here]] — but to what point? The more you see of a monster, the less you get. It is the unseen, the imagined, that scares you. (...) Think how little you ever really saw in the first "Film/{{Alien}}" movie, and how frightening it was."''

-->-- '''David Edelstein''' writing about TheBlairWitchProject

-->-- '''[[{{Moomin}} Moominpappa's Memoirs]]'''

->"I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door."
-->-- '''ChristopherLee'''

->''"Creator/StephenKing once wrote that 'Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.' In a horror story the victim keeps asking 'why?' But there can be no explanation, and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest and it's what we'll remember in the end."''

->"Ohh, I swear, this game is such a troll. It put sounds all around me! But they're not really there, are they?! ''[[ParanoiaFuel Are they]]''?!!
-->-- '''{{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}''' plays'' [[VideoGame/{{Vanish}} Vanish]]''

-->-- Creator/HPLovecraft.

-->--''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', during the MushroomSamba sequence

-->-- '''Ethros Demon, Corrupter of Souls''', Series/{{Angel}}, "I've Got You Under My Skin (1x14)"

->''You see, there are three kinds of horror games - first there's the kind where you're in a dark room and a guy in a spooky mask jumps out of a cupboard going "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO". That would be your [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom 3]]. Then there's the kind where the guy in the spooky mask isn't in the cupboard, but right behind you, and you just know he's gonna go "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" at some point, but he doesn't, and you're getting more and more tense, but you don't want to turn around because he might stick his cock in your eye. That would be your VideoGame/SilentHill2. And then there are games where the guy in the spooky mask goes "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" while standing on the far side of a brightly lit room before walking slowly towards you, plucking a violin before smacking you in the face with a t-bone steak. That would be your VideoGame/DeadSpace. You see, [[NothingIsScarier the second one]] is best, because your imagination is doing all the work, all a good horror game needs to do is hand you a piece of sandpaper and shout encouragement as you vigorously massage your own undercarriage.''
--> '''Yahtzee''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation (Specifically, the VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2092-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent review]])''


->Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
->`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
->But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
->And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
->That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
->Darkness there, and nothing more.
-->-- ''' EdgarAllanPoe''', ''The Raven''

->'''Bart:''' Hey, you know what would have been scarier than nothing?
->'''Lisa:''' What?
->'''Bart:''' ''[[DefiedTrope ANYTHING!]]''
-->-- '''TheSimpsons''', ''Treehouse of Horror''

->Let me say this: if you have killed one monster, you have killed them all. They all go down the same. You pump them full of lead, or burn them with fire, or pray them to oblivion, or magick them to another dimension, or laser them into vapor, but they all die in the end, and if you can pack the heat, you can spank the monster. A shooting gallery is not the essence of horror, and neither is just being gobbled right and left, or surprized with a sudden 'boo!'. Real horror, real anxiety comes from waiting. It comes from expectation, from suspense. In the meeting with a monster, either you win, or you die. You beat the monster or it beats you. This can be drawn out, or samurai quick, but it is the end, the climax. The thing that makes the monster is the foreplay before hand. Sex and death have always gone together in most human cultures, and one reason is that they work the same...foreplay and climax.
-->-- '''Jennifer Diane Riess''', personal website.

-->-- ''Both in the DrakeAndJosh episode "Megan's Revenge"''

->Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.
-->-- Opening sentence of ''TheWhispererInDarkness'' by H.P. Lovecraft

->It’s not great art, but it’s proof that vague shapes and crackling twigs can be scarier than million-dollar FX — that nothing is scarier than nothing.
-->-- David Edelstein writing about TheBlairWitchProject

->"Before darkness fell, we caught sight of the Sea-Hound to starboard, and this glimpse was indescribably eerie - perhaps particularly because we only got a kind of general impression of the beast. In the darkness I imagined the rest, and that was worse still."

-->-- '''HGWells''', ''The Red Room''.

-->-- '''{{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}''' plays ''Vanish''

-->--''AlfredHitchcock''