There has been a lot of talk on the interwebs lately about the health of horror. With the most recent cries being "Can The Quiet Ones Save Horror". I would like to know who declared horror sick to begin with. I mean come on really can't we say that Horror has been "dying" since Universal stopped churning out the classic monster movies in the 40's and 50's. But let's get back to today for a bit. If we want to strictly go by box office then yeah put a fork in it, it's way over done. But so is most other genres. In 2013 three of the top ten grossing movies were geared toward kids(4 if you count hunger games). So I guess dramas and comedies are dead too. You'll find the same trend looking at 2012's top performers. So looking at this I would say yes getting a horror film made by a mainstream studio is a hard sell With the success of horror related tv shows such as Salem and of course The Walking Dead and money making movies like World War Z we may see big studios more willing to back horror movies in the future. Now after saying all that I believe we have the ace in the hole, the barbarians at the gate sort of speak. The independent film makers there is where our past and future lie. If you're of the school that George Romero's original Night Of The Living Dead is our Bethlehem star. Guess what we are going to be ok, it shows filmmakers of today that if you have passion people will come out to see it and it's contagious. Lets look at 2012's The Battery shot in two weeks for a whopping budget of 6,000 but in my opinion it's a good film with a fresh take. Compare that with The Happening with a budget of 48,000,000. and The Blair witch with it's 60,000 budget. What I'm trying to get across to the doomsday sayers is that it's not about how much you CGI budget is, it's the filmmakers vision that going to prove where we are headed. And take this for what it's worth from someone that tries to watch two horror movies a day there is a whole lot more good than bad. We as the public just hear about the extremes on both ends. In today's entertainment industry gone are the days of just counting on a mainstream company to bring you what you want. With VOD and the internet I really believe we are just heading into our "Golden Age" And just look around at all the sub-genres we have the horror family. Horror doesn't even have the sniffles, don't believe me do yourself a favor and Google "independent horror films" and look around I have a feeling we are going to be ok.
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