Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
And this tends to apply to horror films in particular because, well, there's a lot of them being made, they're really popular, and, as far as films go, they're actually fairly easy (and inexpensive) to make. Naturally, with this trifecta, there's no doubt loads of hacks making mediocre product, and, as a result, the market gets flooded with shit and people don't really know that much about which ones are good or not. And when a lot of crap films become popular, it taints public perception of the whole genre. For every Hereditary, It, or Get Out, there's loads of movies like The Apparition, The Devil Inside. The Disappointments Room, Fear Dot Com, I Know Who Killed Me, One Missed Call, or Shut In (all future entries in the Deep Hurting Project, provided my local library doesn't remove them from circulation before I get them) and even more movies that don't even have the courtesy of being spectacularly horrible and are simply mediocre films with nothing to recommend them for, except maybe appealing to idiots who don't know any better. And when people don't take care to separate the wheat from the chaff, we get idiots who think that it's crap all the way down.
Of course, the fact that they've been falling into formulas for decades (seriously, Scream codified the template for the cliches of the modern horror film, and 23 years after it was released, they're still falling back on those cliches) does not help matters.
And this tends to apply to horror films in particular because, well, there's a lot of them being made, they're really popular, and, as far as films go, they're actually fairly easy (and inexpensive) to make. Naturally, with this trifecta, there's no doubt loads of hacks making mediocre product, and, as a result, the market gets flooded with shit and people don't really know that much about which ones are good or not. And when a lot of crap films become popular, it taints public perception of the whole genre. For every Hereditary, It, or Get Out, there's loads of movies like The Apparition, The Devil Inside. The Disappointments Room, Fear Dot Com, I Know Who Killed Me, One Missed Call, or Shut In (all future entries in the Deep Hurting Project, provided my local library doesn't remove them from circulation before I get them) and even more movies that don't even have the courtesy of being spectacularly horrible and are simply mediocre films with nothing to recommend them for, except maybe appealing to idiots who don't know any better. And when people don't take care to separate the wheat from the chaff, we get idiots who think that it's crap all the way down.
Of course, the fact that they've been falling into formulas for decades (seriously, Scream codified the template for the cliches of the modern horror film, and 23 years after it was released, they're still falling back on those cliches) does not help matters.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
