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Do you think the Horror Genre is in trouble?
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Yes, but i also think this should be changed to "American Horror"
Its been in trouble for a long time.
Then again, im not quite sure if they were ever not in trouble.
While some of the best horror was pre 1970, it was never a huge genre. Of course you can name specific movies that did great, but for the most part is was more of a selective genre that less people enjoyed (compared to others).
Between the mid 70s and early 90s was this massive influx at-the-time shock slasher. Few actually any good and even fewer were creative. But many enjoyed them because of the seemly exploitation of sex and gore in the same picture.
Then the mid 90s come along and we got this horrid flow of absolutely terrible teen slashes like "Scream" and "i know what you want to do last summer" or whatever the hell it was. And to make it even even more pathetic, like the 80s with slashers, we had worse copies of the horrid movies "Scream" and "i know what you want to do last summer".
And now it seems we have two types of horror.
1. Remakes of old good movies (that turn out shitty) and remakes of good Asian horror movies (that turn out shitty). Also, this trend has not just stuck to the horror genre.
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2. New shock. Saw 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11...18,213.... Decent, High Tention, Hostel, ect.
While they do seem to be a bit higher quality than the 80s counter parts, that could also just be technological advances rather than better staff, directors, writers, actors, little things that dont seem to matter in cinema now.
I guess when i take a look back at horror, the only time it was really "not in trouble" was when it was just a factory producing crap genre or a semi-underground genre that the good movies did not get the respect they deserved.