hannah brostrom
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'Escape Room' and Low Expectations
There's something of a stigma that comes with PG-13 movies, and rightfully so. It's an extremely fruitful audience–attracting teenagers not yet seventeen, the heart of profit. PG-13 horror is practically a riskless market, and thus, houses some of the most passionless, terrible, cash-grab films of their respective years. And it works.Truth or Dare, a movie with a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and an even more dismal average audience reaction, grossed almost a hundred million dollars worldwide. A hundred million. Ouija, sporting an even lower 6% on RT, made over a hundred million. You'll find similar examples littered through the past decade: Slender Man, Wish Upon (what is it with Joey King and these movies?), The Lazarus Effect—it happens incessantly. As much as I want to fault these filmmakers for their unending heartless production, I understand where they're coming from. It's a profitable market.
By hannah brostrom7 years ago in Horror
'Hereditary' and the Potential Beauty of Horror
It's no secret that modern day horror is often lacking in true artistic value, genuine passion, and sound motivation. More often than not, directors and producers use horror films as a vessel to secure ticket sales by the disposable income Gods that are the teenage demographic, who they assume (an often correct assumption) will buy tickets no matter the true quality of whatever they're seeing. And this is fine, I suppose–film is an industry in which many have money as some kind of goal. But the sad part of this is that horror has begun to lose its true value as a storytelling genre and medium of creativity. Sure, in the modern day we've had stunning horror such as 2014's The Babadook or 2016's Raw, all of which have received critical acclaim for their artistry and production. But it is an undeniable fact that for every Get Out, there are a dozen The Bye-Bye Mans, Truth or Dares, or rehashes of old films that had absolutely no need to be remade.
By hannah brostrom8 years ago in Horror
