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Posted on 10/24/2025 5:50:52 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
According to the Washington Post, “horror is now the fastest-rising film genre, having doubled its market share from 4.87 percent in 2013 to 10.08 percent in 2023.”
...One reason there have been so many new horror releases is that horror films have a huge profit margin. That is, they’re cheap to make and, currently, result in large payouts. “Because it can be made with no stars, small budgets and limited special effects, the genre is built for success,” writes the Washington Post.
...Horror is a genre that people want to view in theaters. In the age of streaming, cinema has taken a blow as people prefer to watch movies from the comfort of their own homes instead of buying tickets at a theater.
Horror is best viewed in the abyss of a big dark room, far away from your door at home that can be easily locked to keep your fears away.
Social Commentary and Meaningful Themes
Get Out initiated a new wave of social issues and commentary being the focus of horror films and legitimized horror in the public eye. This trend has continued with films focused on class division (Parasite (2019)), beauty standards (The Substance (2024)), and abuse (The Invisible Man (2020)), as well as many other societal ills and systematic oppressions.
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I’m always up for a good horror, especially cosmic, Lovecraftian type horror. A few I’ve come across:
1) The ritual - about some hikers that stray from the path and come up against some Nordic folklore.
2) Black Mountain Side - a group of archeologists are researching an area in remote Canada and come across something ancient.
3) Older Gods (can stream free on Fandango) - Very Lovecraftian and it does a good job at at.
4) The Empty Man
5) The Endless
If anyone has any other suggestions, I’m game
That movie about the Dog’s experience. I thought about seeing it, but may have waited too long.
I was thinking, if the Dog dies at the end, I probably will pass on seeing it.
Horror movies always turn a profit, no matter the decade or economy.
Movies that came out during the Great Depression: Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Freaks (1932), The Mummy (1932), White Zombie (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), King Kong (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
He was also in Heat, The Mangler, and a few other movies. I love his voice. Sounds like he MAY be drunk, but nobody knows.
Those are some of my favorite movies. I’m not a fan of gore or modern horror, but I love the old ones.
I absolutely hate movies, book what ever where the dog dies.
At the end of a story pregnant ladies, children and all pets must be alive. Everyone else can have died horribly but those three categories must be alive. I will allow boo-boos but no deaths.
Starting to believe the gates from HELL are open.
That's understandable. They've become too crass and charm-less.
Lee, my family is with you on that.
Funny!
Golden age of horror, no question.
Exactly, thats it...
Rear Window is a Fantastic movie where the mind runs and fills in the gaps of “missing” information for those peeking out their “Rear” Window
The exorcism was completed in St. Louis, but the boy lived in Cottage City, MD, just across the DC line, right along the Anacostia River with Bladensburg on the other side.
That has always intrigued me, because Catholic University is less than three miles away. This was not a case of Father O'Gullible in the back of beyond dealing with something way above his pay grade. It happened next door to Catholic Central, USA.
The boy's family was Lutheran, and his dad was a federal employee. When the boy began to act strangely -- and got suspended from Bladensburg Jr. High for his behavior -- they consulted with the family doctor and their pastor. I don't know how many doctors they saw, but eventually the pastor referred the case to the local Catholic priest in that parish. This has always struck me as highly un-Lutheranlike behavior: "Hey, we've got a tough case. Let's call in the Catholics." My best guess is that the Lutheran pastor and Catholic priest were good buddies, and he brought in his friend. Anyhow, the priest escalated the case ... and the bishop had a formidable array of top Catholic experts just up the road. Who was consulted?
The boy was eventually admitted to the Georgetown University Hospital, so he was seen by the Georgetown mental health guys looking for organic causes, the shrinks looking for the whatevers for which they couldn't find an organic cause, and the attending priests. That whole team ultimately decided that an exorcism was warranted. It was begun in the Georgetown University Hospital and ended when the boy yanked a steel spring out of his hospital bedframe and stabbed a priest.
The boy's mother then took her son to St. Louis, where she had family, and the process was repeated at St. Louis University. That meant another archdiocese, another bishop, another set of doctors, shrinks and priests ... so there was now a Team A and a Team B ... and Team B also recommended an exorcism. So what, exactly, was everyone seeing?
Iirc, the boy was 13 when it started and 14 when the exorcism was completed. A LOT of expert adult eyeballs were on him, so if he was faking, he was one of the all-time great fakers. But medical and church records would be sealed unless he agreed to release them, and the boy, then man, involved was never willing to cooperate with investigators. He had no further symptoms after the exorcism was completed, went on to a long and apparently uneventful career as a federal employee, and just passed away a few years ago.
I have no idea what records may be left, but perhaps they can be unsealed at some point.
William Peter Blatty was an undergraduate at Georgetown University when the exorcism began in DC. News of the exorcism somehow got into the newspapers. Blatty didn't make anything of it at the time, but he went on to become a writer, and he returned to the subject many years later. His novel was wildly sensationalized, as was the movie -- but yes, they were based on a real exorcism.
I haven’t seen a decent horror movie in a long time. I know about 10 or 15 years ago. It was everything zombies, and I think they bled that one dry. Friday the 13th, and Freddy Krueger crap I find boring as hell, like just about any other slasher movie.
Really the only thing that I think is scary nowadays is like haunting and demonic possession stuff
I grew up on black and white horror movies at the local theater in the 50’s and 60’s. The Thing, Them, Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Fly, etc. I went for any movie that featured Boris Karloff, Peter Lorie, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney, Jr. The original Universal Monster Movies are classics. I remember seeing The Creature From the Black Lagoon and the two sequels at the theater...same thing with Vincent Price’s House on Haunted Hill, and Tingler. I don’t like remakes of the originals, don’t enjoy slasher movies, and hardly watch movies at all anymore because the quality of what is available, doesn’t cut it for me.
Met her at a local comic con several years ago with my youngest son who's now 54. She's into animal rescue. Runs her own foundation.
At the same event, we met "Candyman" Tony Todd, now deceased, and "Ghostbusters" Ernie Hudson. Both of them were very nice to talk to. Boris Karloff's daughter, Sara Karloff was there selling memorabilia of her father. She was born in 1938. I was born in 1947. I bought a magnet with a picture of her Dad on it. I thought it was pretty cool meeting his daughter, seeing as I grew up watching his films.
"You may never have guests over again!"
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 movie “Frenzy.”
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