Movies Thoughts on the massive cultural explosion of Horror in the mainstream?

[NatalieZaki]

I'm sure this has been talked about before, but it's interesting to see as someone who grew up watching all the campy and dumb horror movies see a brand new cultural appreciation to the genre. Obviously, there's been the recent success of Backrooms and Obsession, but also many horror films getting massive critical praise, such as Jordan Peele and Ari Aster's works, when back in the day, horror films wouldn't even get a scoff from critics. It has been great seeing this genre grow to what it is today. (Sadly, this doesn't really apply to horror video games ever since the mascot horror trend started slopping out trash)

 

[Vexicrypt]

Idk, this sounds a bit biased to me. Horror movies are still getting legacy sequels, which are pretty basic and boring. And all these "elevated horror" movies are just another trend that works for now, though getting a bit stale too. As for the games, horror genre is much much more than mascot horror these days. In fact it seems to me that you might be looking in the wrong direction, because I see everything except mascot horror games. They exist and still coming out, but its just a drop in a sea.