Love Quote by David Arquette

Arquette is praising the one thing horror purists get accused of ruining: being loud. In his telling, the screaming isn’t a breach of etiquette, it’s the point - proof that the movie has successfully climbed off the screen and into the room. He frames horror as a communal sport, closer to a packed wrestling match than the hushed reverence of an awards contender. The “real horror fans” detail matters: it’s a gentle flex and a gate, implying there’s an authentic audience that understands the genre’s social contract. You’re allowed to react, even expected to.

The subtext is also personal-brand clean. Arquette’s career has been intertwined with Scream, a franchise built on audiences who know the rules and still want to feel the shock. His excitement is less about auteurist craft than about feedback loops: a jump scare lands harder when it ricochets through a crowd. Horror thrives on contagion - fear spreads, then converts into laughter, then into relief, all in real time. That’s why he calls it “alive.” He’s describing cinema not as content but as an event.

There’s context in what he’s rejecting, too. Streaming has trained us to watch horror alone, paused, buffered, half-distracted. Arquette is staking out the theatrical case with a genre that’s uniquely equipped to make it: you can’t replicate the electricity of a room full of people surrendering to fear at the same moment.