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Originally Posted by Despare
I do love it when people always question why certain things aren't more popular and then when they become popular they complain it's all too mainstream. .
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Hmm, I get your point, BUT you would not hear me complaining if we were talking about mostly GOOD releases. In the 80s/early 90s I LOVED slasher movies, and they were very trendy at the time - but so many good ones were made, probably because part of the appeal was still the sort of "forbidden" element to them, and at the time a movie like that would have failed if you could have watched it with your mom and your little sister. They were aimed directly at the horror audience.
But most of what we get now seems to be not only mass produced and unoriginal, but aimed at a different audience than the actual horror fans - as is the case with vampires, werewolves and so on. They are trying to get the majority, non-horror fans, interested - not us. That's what I mean when I refer to it as "mainstream".
I'd much rather watch one of those low budget 80s zombie movies with bad acting, because at least you could sense that they were made by people who loved the genre, and they had a certain charm to them... "bad in the good way" :D
It seems that all movie monsters, one by one, are being turned into something unthreatening that little can fall in love with, and that is not what I, as a horror fan, expect to see.