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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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Other than the occasional revisit of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, don't really care for it...
I'm personally looking forward to Benicio Del Torro's Frankenstein coming out in early November.
I remember when the first “Night of the Living Dead” movie came out in B&W in 1968. People were terrified, and kids were told not to see it.
Today it would be a comedy...........
Once in a great while, Im in the mood to see a horror or ghost movie. Not too often, since most of today’s horror films are also extremely violent and/ or bloody.
And the majority of such films have a storyline wrapped around some version of The Devil, or the heavy auras of Evil. If one sees that kind of movie for terror and escapism, that’s an individual choice. Im usually not eager to feed those kinds of images, those kinds of story sequences into my head, at least not for two hours at a time. I prefer Comedy/Action films like Nobody Part 2. Fun, but still thrilling.
Never been a fan of “Horror” movies, or slasher and gore type flics. But I always like the Exorcist as it was based in reality, that is it was a true case involving a young boy in St. Louis. Even the Omen was a little too much “Hollywood Horror” for me. Something more cerebral is what I crave.
There was a movie that took place in Sweden—the original film was Swedish I think and it was a detective movie. The Sun about never set and it began messing with the mind of an out of country detective brought in to either assit or bring back a fugitive. There was a US remake If I remember with Al Pacino some years back? That began having undertones of a cerebral horror—Then there was a film out of the Netherlands some 40 years ago that too, billed itself as a Horror film with no blood. Can’t remember the name or if I saw it...
We watch Svengolie every week
The only “horror” movie (and I put that in quotes because it was more suspense) I enjoyed recently was the movie “Good Boy”. Yeah, you can see the twist coming but it was a original story and it ended right.
For a while (early 2000s) there was a genre of “torture porn” that was just horrible. Not scary, just shocking. Saw. Hostel. Etc. thankfully that fad didn’t last long and the industry started putting out the tried and true monster or zombie type flicks. For me they are fun.
I loved the 80s for horror when they had to use physical special effects. So many great goofy horror flicks then. CHUD. Toxic Avenger. Reanimated. I love those flicks
Linda Blair just turned 62. Oooooh scary!
Years ago my Mother-in-law began reading “The Exorcist”. She said it was the most evil book she ever read.
So evil in fact, she couldn’t finish it, took it to the ocean and threw it off the pier.
I went out and bought another copy, ran it under the faucet and left it beside her bed.
“Kratt”
Brother and sister sent to stay with grandma while their folks ‘find’ themselves at a hippy-dippy retreat.
Its a horror movie when they find out there is NO INTERNET at granny’s farm!
Subtitled Estonian madness. A funny movie with some blood.
I like more ‘psychological’ horror movies. Anyone can splash the ketchup around and call it ‘art.’
Faves:
‘Psycho’ Alfred Hitchcock
‘The Ring’
(I know! I thought I would HATE IT, but my teens convinced me to watch it with them - probably because they NEEDED an adult in the room, LOL!)
‘Signs’
(And really anything from M. Knight Shamalamadingdong (I can never remember his name!)
‘Rear Window’ another Hitchcock classic (’Perry Mason’ disposing of a body?!?!)
‘Cape Fear’ OMG! Do NOT watch the original (Robert Mitchum) alone - and the re-make with De Niro? As much as I HATE that jerk, it is very - VERY - scary! My sister and I saw it on The Big Screen and we clutched one another and pretty much SCREAMED through the whole movie!
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ The book was scary enough - the movie was amazingly good! Ever notice that the actor that played Jame Gumb (the killer) never worked in film again?
‘Wait Until Dark’ Audrey Hepburn. She’s blind! A Bad Man is tormenting her because her husband bought her a doll overseas that was filled with the Bad Man’s Cocaine! If you can see this performed in live theater - GO! Now! Even if your local High School is doing it! The final scene will stay with you forever.
‘Blood Simple’ ANYTHING by the Coen Brothers gets high marks from me. :)
OMG! LOL! You win the Horror Internets for today!
My own Mother read ‘Jaws’ then handed the book to me and said, ‘You have GOT to read this!’
I was like 14 at the time, LOL!
She’d also wake me up int he middle of the night if there was a scary movie playing on TV - but she didn’t want to ‘watch it alone.’
She woke me up for ‘Helter Skelter!’
I come by my various psychosis honestly, at least!
“Ever notice that the actor that played Jame Gumb (the killer) never worked in film again?”
He was Monk’s boss on the TV series.
(I knew someone here would know!)
NO WAY! I’ll have to check that out. Never have seen ‘Monk’ other than a few random episodes here and there.
Tony Shalhoub is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Go, Pack! GO!
Check this one out: Midsommar is a film about an American couple who join a violent cult in rural Sweden for a midsummer festival. The film explores themes of grief, relationship, and cultism, and features a disturbing finale with human sacrifices.
Swedes are wrapped tighter than Germans brrrrrr!
I’m glad I’m a happy go lucky American, carefree & gay but none too frivolous.
It would seem that far and away the scariest horror movie of all time would be “I Was a Teenage Earl Warren.” A movie by this title was actually made in 1971—I think it was only issued in the 16mm format. I didn’t see it, but perhaps that’s just as well, as I would probably have been traumatized.
Romcoms have been in eclipse the last few years. Scifi and superhero movies are oversaturated. Everyone is sick of them. There are other things Hollywood could do, but they aren’t doing those things.
So, horror movies. Sure. I watch them too. There are thousands of them. There’s a certain amount of comedy in the “young people in a cabin in the woods” flicks, so you have the funny and the scary.
“MONSTERS- The Ed Gein Story is OUTSTANDING (NETFLIX)
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