While the industry hedges its bets on reboots and expanded universes, subversive scare flicks such as A Quiet Place and Get Out are making low-budget risk-taking pay
Horror, it seems, will never die. The undermining of traditional releasing strategies by Netflix premieres and simultaneous releases of movies in cinemas and on demand has led to Hollywood anxiously doubling down on safe sequels, reboots and expanded universes. Yet a legion of smart, subversive and downright scary horror movies has been packing them in.
Look at the barnstorming success of A Quiet Place, the pin-drop survival thriller where John Krasinski and his Little House on the Prairie clan live in tiptoeing fear of hunter-killer beasties who are hypersensitive to sound. It’s a supremely crafted, allegorically rich nerve-jangler that forces audiences to shut the hell up or be complicit in the razor-clawed slaughter. From a $17m (£12m) budget, A Quiet Place brought...
Horror, it seems, will never die. The undermining of traditional releasing strategies by Netflix premieres and simultaneous releases of movies in cinemas and on demand has led to Hollywood anxiously doubling down on safe sequels, reboots and expanded universes. Yet a legion of smart, subversive and downright scary horror movies has been packing them in.
Look at the barnstorming success of A Quiet Place, the pin-drop survival thriller where John Krasinski and his Little House on the Prairie clan live in tiptoeing fear of hunter-killer beasties who are hypersensitive to sound. It’s a supremely crafted, allegorically rich nerve-jangler that forces audiences to shut the hell up or be complicit in the razor-clawed slaughter. From a $17m (£12m) budget, A Quiet Place brought...
- 4/12/2018
- by Graeme Virtue
- The Guardian - Film News
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