Andrew Cull > Quotes

“Hope is a corpse.

A dead thing, watching you suffer with black empty eyes.

Any comfort it might have offered, long since gone to the grave.”
― Andrew Cull, Remains

“Found footage pulls the audience—those watching and those reading—into a world that’s their world, and that closeness, that immediate recognition of almost everything they see or read about, simplifies, at least for a while, the transitioning to the perfect state of suspension of disbelief.”
― Andrew Cull, Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

“Way I look at it, you get to a point in your life when you turn a corner and realise that’s about all you’re gonna get. If you can face down that knowledge and not crack open a bottle, well, you’re a better person than I am. If I make it to eighty I intend to start smoking again.”
― Andrew Cull, Knock and You Will See Me

“Lake Mungo, Savageland, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Trollhunter, REC, The Blair Witch Project, the Hell House LLC movies, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Cloverfield, Creep I and II, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Afflicted… Okay, I’ll stop now.”
― Andrew Cull, Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

“Grief had stripped the life from her. She’d wasted away until she was a bag of bones, a dead thing unable to find peace.”
― Andrew Cull, Remains

“Strode through our house as sure as if it lived there. Hooved feet but it stood up like a man. And its face! That face. Like it had borrowed it from a corpse. Cut out and stuck on top of its own. I caught it looking in on me through the sliding doors of my bedroom.”
― Andrew Cull, Bones

“What’s that bumper sticker say? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I’ll reverse back over you to make sure you’re dead.”
― Andrew Cull, The Cockroach King

“but what good are your Bibles to us? What good are lies and false promises to people whose lives have crushed them so badly they had to book themselves into a hospital for the fucking insane?”
― Andrew Cull, Remains