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Originally Posted by _____V_____
Originality, by way of the box office, is out.
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Originally Posted by Despare
Horror has never been about pleasing critics and a lot of great horror films will never get a lot of good critical review...I'm sure the pendulum will swing back and then away again.
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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
Horror won't go anywhere as long as those who love it work to make it... or at least go support it wherever they can.
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i think these arguments pretty much answer this question.
horror (in its true form) has never been about mass ingestion. horror has always been the underdog of film genres. when you try to throw mass appeal into the mix, the outcome is
generally not good. sometimes good horror comes to find you, and then there are times where you have to go looking for it. there have been plenty of great releases over the past few years if you really look:
the descent, grindhouse, behind the mask, session 9, the orphanage, bug, the devil's backbone, hatchet, etc.
i guess what it comes down to here is this: at this point in time, if you're looking at horror on the surface, you're going to see a bunch of uninspired, unoriginal crap-jobs, but by looking below you can find stuff that the "golden age" horror genre would have been proud of. and who's to say we won't see another golden age of horror in the future? with people like us
supporting and creating within the genre (rod's got some really exciting stuff in the works), who knows what's waiting beneath that crappy horror exterior?