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Originally posted by urgeok
i have to disagree that most directors have love for the genre.
Rob Zombie for sure ... he has huge love for it ..
but most of the others ... a lot of them that made their name with horror are tired of it .. but are pigionholed.
the straight to video guys .. many of them are made to direct these crap horrors to cut their teeth on.
no loss to the company if the films bomb ... the video market picks them up.
The Grudge/The Ring/Dark Water .... that is the wave that suprised me ... that hollywood picked up on that j-horror wagon .. but i guess they were making big bucks in asia and $$$ draws the movie people like flys to shit.
they smell money, then milk the new trend - wring every last penny out of it and leave it dying on the floor .. spent and mutilated.
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Perhaps "most" was an overstatement. I do belive that alot of directors do have a love for the genre, and I think it really shows. Compare The Skeleton Key and All Souls Day for example. Skeleton Key had a big budget, big name stars, and did fairly well at the box office. It admittedly turned out better than most modern horror films, but you could tell that Softley was in it more for the payoff than actually wanting to make a good film. It didnt have that something that someone with a love for the genre would have added. All Souls Day, on the flip side, obviously had no budget, the biggest name involved was Jeffery Combs, and I'd bet it hardly even broke even. The film was undeniably bad, but you could really tell that Kasten wanted to make a good film. He tried things that hadnt been done, and they failed. If he had the multi-million dollar studio backing that Skeleton Key had, however, it could have been a great addition to the recent wave of zombie films.