Guillermo Del Torro, the director of Pan's Labyrinth, Blade 2, and Hellboy, in response to the question of why horror persists as a genre:
"Because right now reality is so horrible. Everything has been so jaded, so manhandled, and horror maintains its purity. It is one of the stages of emotion that remains pure, and people love pure emotion. If you are capable of eliciting a moment of fear, of true fear, if anyone connects with your movie and feels a shiver of recognition that there is something in that screen that is beyond the natural, it's a huge high. It's as exciting as the best action sequence or the most romantic kiss. Pure uncut emotion, that's what people like. Sadly, horror movies just tend to be gory and blase, almost to the point of being post-modern reflections of horror. I am still a believer in the old gothic ghost story set in a building with long corridors and dark dungeons - there is still value in that."
"Because right now reality is so horrible. Everything has been so jaded, so manhandled, and horror maintains its purity. It is one of the stages of emotion that remains pure, and people love pure emotion. If you are capable of eliciting a moment of fear, of true fear, if anyone connects with your movie and feels a shiver of recognition that there is something in that screen that is beyond the natural, it's a huge high. It's as exciting as the best action sequence or the most romantic kiss. Pure uncut emotion, that's what people like. Sadly, horror movies just tend to be gory and blase, almost to the point of being post-modern reflections of horror. I am still a believer in the old gothic ghost story set in a building with long corridors and dark dungeons - there is still value in that."
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