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Originally Posted by The Villain
There's nothing wrong with blending genres at all, i just don't think it's necessary for every horror movie.
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I'm definitely not arguing that horror must be blended with another genre to be great. I don't believe that at all, but like crabby was saying above, it must be
grounded in something more than genre tropes. Nosferatu was rooted in Germany's fear of the rest of the world, of foreigners; Godzilla was a reaction to the atomic bomb; Rosemary's Baby played on the anxiety of its generation; etc. This is what I would like to see in popular horror cinema today, films that are fueled by and deal with latent societal and cultural fears, that in being contemporary in that way, they become timeless.