Backrooms, Obsession and Iron Lung shows that you don't need to spend tens of millions to entertain people and why Horror is the best genre.What's sad is that instead of financing low budget genre movies like those, streaming channels (Netflix, Amazon etc....) would rather spend hundreds of millions on vanity projects and outright trash i.e. Killers of the Flower Moon/Rebel Moon, both of which cost 200 million to make each when they could have given 20 filmmakers 10 mill each, or even 40 with 5 mill each and have a steady stream of new content to keep people subbed.Also, what we're seeing is the same cycle that happened in the late 60's/early 70's, early 80's and early 90's.Budgets are way to high, so studios turn to independent filmmakers who can make stuff on a relatively low budget and turn a profit. This is how Directors such as Coppola, Scorcese, De Palma etc... got their start. Then in the 80's it was primarily people from the music video/commercial industry hired once the previous generation became self indulgent and spending way too much.This led to Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate almost bankrupting a studio with the new Wall Street bred studio executives using it as an excuse to bring the hammer down on "New Hollywood" and pushed for "High Concept" genre fare which dominated the 80's. But by the end of that decade the cycle was staring again with budgets and salaries skyrocketing that opened the door for filmmakers such as Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez etc.... I didn't get that feeling circa 2000 as there was plenty of offbeat movies being made but didn't have the same impact those Directors of their eras had on filmmaking.
>>220900105Doesn't help that the major studios consolidated the market and conspired to kill independent filmmakers/studios with New Line Cinema and Mirimax being the only survivors but that was because they were genre focused and tried to keep budgets down but were eventually bought out by WB/Disney with their founders kicked out when they weren't producing low budget blockbusters and also starting to spend more like the majors to compete, thus betraying their roots. Where I'm going with this is that this is just the next cycle but one that we've never seen before, as the internet and digital tech has leveled the playing field that anyone with the determination can make a movie and, if good and sometimes not, be successful, especially if they keeps their budgets low. George A. Romero more-or-less said in a 1982 issue of Cinefantastique magazine that studios were only interested in opening weekend box office numbers to spike stock prices and would thrown tens of millions at projects in the hope of achieving that and would rather risk bombing than focus on small but steady profits.
>>220900109YouTube is the perfect training ground for wannabe filmmakers with Kane Parsons being a perfect example of someone with a vision and proved he was capable of realizing it on the big screen by making short films that blossomed into him being able to make his feature film Directorial debut with Backrooms.That should be applauded as the fucking guy is only 20 and achieve unimaginable success and wouldn't have had it if not for his perseverance and people who recognized his talent while it cost only 10 mill to make with Obsession costing 750k-1 million and Iron Lung at approx. 3 mil and was self financed with all 3 being incredibly profitable.Now I know that some of you are jelly as fuck and will bleat "SLOP SLOP SLOP" like the NPC butthurt faggots you are but in the end these movies have done exactly what they set out to do, entertain and making money as the audience has spoken loud and clear with those movies curbstomping the latest Star Wars flop!
>>220900120That would have been unimaginable 10 years ago but here we are due to hubris and a focus on injecting identity politics into everything that people once loved but are now completely indifferent to because those in charge told their fanbase to fuck off yet blame them when shit fails showing the sheer level of narcissism and cognitive dissonance but then entertaining and making was never their goal, just take things and turn them into weapons to attack the fans as we've see repeatedly over the last 10+ years or so. This is why we should be in a new golden age of cinema as anyone with a camera, a computer and a reasonable budget can make something is they want to bad enough while I get the feeling that this is going to be a major turning point for cinema, as companies will be looking to back anyone who can show that they've got what it takes to tell a story.The question is will this eventually lead to the same conclusion as other cycles did, with people like Kane Parsons etc... getting full of themselves and escalating their budgets over time, leading to another cycle to begin anew?We'll just have to wait and see but in the meantime....https://jumpshare.com/share/07QF8XQwqHQxzP6Wg0r0!!!FACT!!!
>>220900133One other thing, do you know why LIMINAL HORROR has become such a big thing amongst this generation?It's because if you were born within the last 20-25 years you have been bombarded with stimuli every waking moment from TV, the internet etc.... and never known a single moment of actual silence.Try this, find an empty room with nothing making any type of noise, doesn't matter of there's stuff in it, as long as it's not moving.Close your eyes for a few minutes and just listen. Don't hear anything, right? Now keep your eyes closed and then plug your ears with your fingers for a few minutes. What you are experiencing is total silence and when you take your fingers out of your ears, with your eyes still closed, you will notice the difference and it's the ambient noise radiating from everything around you that you don't notice because you're soo used to it!The Earth is constantly moving but, just because you don't feel it directly, it doesn't mean that it doesn't cause everything on it to reverberate in some manner, so when you sit in a room and hear this low level ambience, it's everything around you being affected in a way that is imperceptible to humans unless you pay attention to it like you would with my experiment! Anywho, where I'm going with this is that liminal backrooms scare millenials/zoomer's because the second you take away any/all forms of stimuli it creates a sense of unease as they've never known that sort of silence, causing fear within their subconscious that something is wrong and why their minds start to cave in on themselves and go insane from experiencing existential Horror beyond their comprehension.https://youtu.be/reCo_zcWF4Q?si=aGlvYyAV5ULMybd9!!!FACT!!!
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