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Post by cubbies04 on Jul 6, 2007 0:54:01 GMT -5
Grindhouse bombed at the box office. Hostel II underperformed, as did Bug and 28 Weeks Later. Things do not look promising for Captivity either, given the overtly (and overblown IMHO) negative reaction to its billboard.
My question is, are movie audiences burned out on horror right now and if so, why? Is there too much similarity between the films? Perhaps too much gore for mainstream America? Is it a by-product of the constant grim news out of Iraq?
Maybe I'm wrong about this one (1408 seems to be doing well), but it just seems the box office hasn't been particularly strong for horror lately. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid Hollywood might shy away from horror for awhile and force more Knocked Ups on us in the near future.
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Post by Hagen Dragmire on Jul 6, 2007 7:18:26 GMT -5
Well IMO Grindhouse was the only great film out of those you listed.. the others were decent but not great. But the issue is Grindhouse had a classic quality and was shot like an 80s film, and that doesn't appeal to the popular crowd. But hell, I loved the flick so I could care less if it's popular, DVD sales should hopefully resurrect it.
Audiences are burned out on horror right now, why you ask? Because over the past year or even 2 years they have been constantly fed unimaginative repetative crap. Out of the last 7 years there have been a very few crop of films that are decent, probably a handful, but thousands have come out. The market is just flooded with crap films that were pushed out to capitolize on a dying genre.
What I think is going to happen is that when the next big horror flick catches on that they are going to do what they always do. Whore out the formula and run it into the ground. Again, IMO that flick will be Zombie's Halloween. Zombie is with the in crowd and his movies fucking rock. So what is going to happen is that his film is going to hopefully be a box office hit. Then Hollywood will answer by budgeting for more remakes and the madness will ensue.
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Post by cubbies04 on Jul 6, 2007 22:21:48 GMT -5
I'm hoping the Halloween remake rocks, too. I also have faith that Zombie worn turn it into a total shitfest like the Black Christmas remake-which was a total slap in the face to Bob Clark's 1974 classic and basically threw out everything that made the original scary.
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