![]() ![]() And, surprise, surprise, it is also one of the few that can still make bank when the IP franchises fail. To this day, horror remains one of the last “medium-budget” genres that studios take risks on. ![]() And yet, what better genre is there to reflect and ruminate on our anxieties? Personally, we’d argue the only truly great movie about the quarantine experience was Rob Savage’s 57-minute spookfest, Host (2020). The relative lack of thrills is understandable there were simply fewer movies being made during the pandemic. Which is why the general dearth of a wide-range of horror movies during the start of this decade has been a tad dispiriting. ![]() While the term “elevated horror” feels like a back-handed compliment from those too obtuse to realize there has always been challenging, artful horror out there, recent times really have been boom years for ambitious young filmmakers, and a few veterans, pushing chillers to new heights. Once designated as a lesser genre because of critical narrow-mindedness (and also because there’s admittedly a fair amount of delicious schlock out there), stories of fear and pulse-pounding dread received reappraisal in the 2010s. Horror movies experienced something of a renaissance during the previous decade. ![]()
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