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The absolute dearth of new and novel ideas have also hit the genre hard. Thats one of the main reasons we have game-to-movie adaptations and remakes galore.

Almost all the topics under horror have been made into a movie or the other. We have had countless vampire, innumerable werewolf and plenty of zombie movies. The slashers have been saturated to such a point that no new plot is redeeming the slasher genre (cept maybe Saw and Saw II).

Japanese horror has found acceptance here because there are plenty of original ideas emanating in that part of the world. Now we have run into franchises getting together. Freddy vs Jason was the first successful one, close on its heels came Alien vs Predator. Both enjoyed tremendous commercial success so now rumors of more "vs" movies are doing the rounds.

There is no novel idea which hasnt been turned into a movie plot before. If remakes are the criteria and the horror genre jumps into other genres to stay alive, then it would be dreadful. For example, it would suck to see a remake of "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" as a horror movie. (bad idea, scratched instantly)

I just hope this is a circle we are going through, like the evolutionary chain. And the genre moves into a new direction, enjoying both commercial and critical success.