Horror is both the easiest and hardest thing to do. It's the easiest thing to do poorly and the hardest thing to do well. The problem with the scene is that we haven't had anything particularly original, or if something original does miraculously descend from on high to take us to the promise land, some Hollywood suit will clip its wings and present us with the same thing a billion times. We either get a quick cash-in on the original's success like with The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, or just the same movie every goddamn year for seven fucking years in a row. When they're not making making the same movie with increasingly bigger numbers on the end, you've got Michael Bay's guild of evil hiding behind the name Platinum Dune remaking 1970's or '80's horror franchises, or you have some other studio doing shot-for-shot remakes of foreign horror movies like The Ring or Quarantine. It really is an abysmal time to be a horror movie fan.
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