Love Quote by Margot Kidder

Horror, in Margot Kidder's telling, isn’t a guilty pleasure or an exercise in sophistication. It’s play. By calling horror movies “really fun,” she punctures the idea that the genre is mainly about endurance, art-house cred, or moral allegory. The point is bodily: you go to be thrilled, to feel your pulse spike on purpose, the way you might ride a roller coaster that looks vaguely unsafe but is actually engineered for delight.

The phrase “wonderful primal emotions” does a lot of quiet cultural work. “Primal” legitimizes the intensity; fear isn’t childish, it’s ancient. “Wonderful” flips the expected valence. She’s not talking about trauma, she’s talking about permission - a socially acceptable space to experience panic, dread, revulsion, and relief without needing a tidy explanation. That reframing helps explain horror’s stubborn popularity across eras: the genre is a controlled environment for losing control, and that bargain feels especially good in times when everyday life is already loaded with ambient anxiety.

Kidder’s own screen persona adds context. As Lois Lane, she played smart, imperiled, quick-witted - a character often placed in danger but never reduced to it. Coming from an actress associated with mainstream blockbusters, her defense of horror reads like a practical, performer’s argument: audiences don’t just want to think; they want to feel. Horror delivers that at full volume, then hands you your coat and sends you home safe.