Hollywood has always relied on horror movies. In an industry that churns in a constant cycle of fads and trends, horror has reliably been the safest bet, with decades of box-office returns definitively proving that audiences will pay money to get the shit scared out of them.
Of course, relying on something isn’t the same as respecting it. Hollywood has long had a kind of reflective snobbishness about horror movies—a self-perpetuating cycle in which studios, largely writing horror movies off as cheap and lazy, would race to the bottom with cheap, lazy horror movies.
Those awful studio movies still exist, but over the past decade or so, they’ve rapidly been outpaced by an explosion of fresh horror talent, championed by critics and (generally) embraced by audiences who are hungry for unapologetically adult-oriented fare.
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