I still don't get why that boom ever happened like it did, and why nobody seems tired of horror. I like horror, but I don't need to a new one every month.
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Counterpoint: the entire movie business should be more like horror: numerous low-to-mid-budget films, take chances on new actors and directors. Some will make good money, together they could make a few hundred millions a year. Instead of betting the entire house on a handful of expensive tentpoles.
aug 29, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, but that’s not a counterpoint to what I said.
aug 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
It was an explosion in cheaper, better SFX pioneered by Bay’s Transformers that made Superhero films way easier to make at higher quality, and that combined with the Disney acquisition of Marvel demanding a lot of films to recoup pushed a swarm of films to market at an economic rebound from 2008
sep 3, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
*to SEE a new one" i meant.
aug 29, 2025, 8:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Horror is interesting because there’s a core that shows up for everything theatrically but it’s not big enough to make streaming services into horror. It’s the last pure theatrical play.
aug 29, 2025, 8:09 pm • 5 0 • view