Why is it that horror is the only modern genre willing to take risks, hire new talent, is being lauded by critics and is having its only true mainstream moment? It kinda happened in the 1930's with Universal Pictures, but original ideas were constant in those days and the horror craze wasn't nearly to the extent it is now. Is it simply that an economic depression makes people craze horror?
>>540199597Horror movies very frequently have lower budgets, allowing for more risk taking. Also because it is a very crowded genre, it is a very competitive genre, meaning you actually need to make a good (or at least good enough) movie that people want to watch it. If I want to watch a Star War, my options are the one movie Disney puts out a year or a knock off. If I want to watch a Capeshit, I get like two Marvels a year and a DC or a Sony Spiderman. If I want to watch a horror, I can get a new one every week and still not see every one that came out this year. When you have a market that full it puts strong evolutionary pressure on the quality of the films.
>>540199597Soft disclosure for demons
>so here's a woman being stalked/hunted>so here's a black dudeSo much variety
>>540200562I don't like horror either. I think it's trashy as fuck. Really makes me wonder why it's so popular.
>>540200032Fair enough.
>>540199597Zoomer much? You think this is new? It was far bigger in the 80s. What you don't understand is its fucking cheap to make horror movies and come to a high profit margin so the industry across the board pumps them out. It is litteritly blumhouses business model.
>>540205040I'm a millennial and I remember when mid-2000's indie movies like About Schmidt and The Squid and the Whale were the most popular movies that came out, not horror slop. What was it about the Reagan Era that made horror popular, faggot?
>>540199597PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED OF NIGGERS AND TRANSGENDARS
>>540199597I only watch chink cartoons about magical girls these days
>>540205223Yes, but the only people making movies about that are the Daily Wire and Uwe Boll.
>>540205223>niggersyes>tranniesonly the ugly ones
>>540205148Don't know. Was to young to remember. Maybe it was just the SFX talent at the time and you would see scary and fantastic effects that were kind of like the CGI of their time. Even something like Ghostbusters a dry comedy with spooky elements are going to draw eyes over the amazing props for their time.
>>540205347so all trannies?
>>540206600Some pass, but that doesn't mean that they're actually women. We must never forget this.
>>540205267hyped for Walpurgisnacht Rising?
>>540202346You're on 4chan you uppity prick
>>540199597Horror is a feminine genre and was never good. It’s all capeshit to me.
>>540206881When I think of British horror I think of Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee. There's also the Pressburger and Powell movie Peeping Tom. What a lot of people don't realize is that the Shakespeare play "Titus Andronicus" is like a Roman Empire slasher play. Nothing like it was made before it, and nothing like it was made after it. So I guess in some semblance British like horror, but when I first think of British people I think of comedy. Maybe this song will change my mind and others' minds. (Yes, he was an actual British Lord)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMTV-pZtOVY
>>540199597This has been the case for decades because people generally like horror movies and they can be made for cheap. And when you don't have millions of dollars invested in a project you can take more risks. That's Blumhouse's strategy. They make a bunch of cheap horror films, and when one of them pops off, it nets them like a 10x return on their investment.
>>540199597When will people admit this movie was average at best?
