It’s not that movies like Stephen Kings It or the new entry to the Halloween franchise aren’t box office hits. The problem is,this new trend is unsustainable.
It seems as though nothing was learned from the slasher trend of the 1980’s. Franchises like Friday the 13th, Child’s Play, or A Nightmare on Elm Street milked their success to death with studio executives milking the aforementioned franchises to the point of lampooning their own characters.
By the time Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare came out,Freddy Krueger had already gone from terrifying antagonist to a comedic punchline.
Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th suffered a similar fate. Sure, both he and Freddy Krueger are icons of horror now, and but they’re rarely actually considered scary.It didn’t finish in the ’80s.
In 2004 James Wan and Leigh Wannell released a brilliant and original horror film called Saw.
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Source: inquisitr.com