Why aren’t there more horror gimmicks in the biz?
>>19863590Because they're retarded and anti-wrestling. The only people that like it are shitters that were drama club cucks in high school.
>>19863590there's only ever been one good horror gimmick in the history of wrestlinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nutaMDjG9V0
99% of horror gimmick are spookyslop trash that only a retard would like
>>19863610The Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, Gangrel
>>19863601>Because they're retarded and anti-wrestling.In what way? The people who like horror and the people who like wrestling both tend to be the same type of mouthbreather.
>>19863646Kek this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkvy_viAqGw&list=RDZkvy_viAqGw&start_radio=1This gimmick was so dimes.
>>19863590Horror gimmicks only work when the booker isn't a retard and that's unfortunately not true for most companies, and thus people avoid pitching them to said retards. Do I need to elaborate? There's basically limited selection of horror character types in movies and stories and even less limited variety of those that can be used in wrestling. -Your typical Jason Vorhees, big man that no sells - i.e. Kane, Undertaker - those worked because Vince understood the shock value of the rising back up spot.-Supernatural dope fiends, aka vampires are a dead gimmick due to overexposure in past decades.-Vince did not understand The Fiend being a nightmare creature like Freddy Kruger or It - the clown and constantly interfered with booking to it's detriment.-Currently HHH and creative can't figure out if Wyatt 6 is magical or just a cult and that's gets messed up all the time changes on a week to week basis.-Nobody understand the shit Finn Balor cooked up while he was high, not even Finn so the Demon is both a fucking magic creature and a Finn putting paint on to dance and job like he's auditioning for Cirque du soleil-Your inhuman behemoth Frankstein - PoC, worked for the low audience indie crowds because they love to play up to the silly parts. This includes lesser variants like zombies and mummies. You can't put these on screen and expect big numbers.
>>19863590It takes someone with a lot of aura—something rarer than unicorn shit these days—to make a horror gimmick work. Take a look at the fiend, just an obese neckbeard mark that looked like an egg. The demon: 5'8' and an attitude. The wyatt shit, more cringe ass neckbeards that look, and sound like retards
There should only be two wrestling characters. Guys you want to see win, guys you want to see lose. Anything more than that and they’re just hiding an inability to work.
>>19863646Every person I've ever met or seen who's into horror, especially slasher stuff and especially your classic slasher characters like Michael Meyers or Jason, tends to also be into shit like Slipknot or comic book characters like Venom, Spawn and Punisher. They also almost invariably look like galoots.>>19863657Boogeyman worked explicitly because it wasn't supernatural, he was just a crazy guy.
People always forget this one
>>19864150Does Lord Humongous count?
>>19864150Dimes
>>19863948bang on description
>>19863590there's still lots of horror gimmicks in wrestling, but most of them are lame. theres a few like Krule and The Outbreak who can really pull it off but a lot of them are crap.
Wouldn't be surprised if Taker killed every gimmick. Kane was just a burned, emotionally stunted freak, and Mankind was just looney tunes.>>19863805>creative can't figure out if Wyatt 6 is magical or just a cultI think it needs to be in a gray area to work which means you need to ignore the lore autists that need everything explicitly laid out for them. Having it be ambiguous as to their Hulk Up being supernatural is fine. Crawling in the ring pretending to be a zombie like Abaddon is dumb. Bray's bridge taunt was freaky and a unique way to imply something extra while having it work in an otherwise grounded company. Ironically, the Fiend just wasn't as interesting, and relegating Finn's demon paint to a supernatural gimmick wasn't even Finn's idea.
>>19863590They're gay as fuck and require the other party to play along completely with being super scared of the heckin' terrifying horror gimmick but that doesn't really work outside of an actual film and always just translates to a guy in stupid gear acting like a retarded faggot (see: gay wyatt)
>>19864328Wyatt wasn’t dimes why?
>>19864155Dimes promo man>"JUST WALK AWAY"iconic
>>19864565Probably business being historically bad when he was around and pushed
>>19865805Thanks Vince
>>19865976Yeah thanks Vince for thinking a historic fat shitter like Bray could ever draw a dime
>>19863610https://youtu.be/dioPo9sIqN0?t=19
