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January 11th, 2009

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  • January 11th, 2009, 11:36 am

THE STATE OF THE GENRE: Everything Old Is New Again

The next installment of my monthly column, "The State of the Genre," is now up at Fear Zone. This time I deal with the ubiquitous issue of horror movie remakes, and the fact that 2009 will be chock-a-block with them -- more so, perhaps, than any other year previous.

In Hollywood, the name of the game has long been Ride the Bandwagon -- keep making movies just like the ones that made money before until they stop making money -- and too often for us fans of the creepy and the kooky, that bandwagon's license plate spells "remake." Admittedly, the remake is hardly a recent concept. They've been around since the dawn of movies themselves, and in some rare cases they're even better than the originals (John Carpenter's remake of 1951's THE THING springs immediately to mind). But when we're talking about horror movies, it seems like more and more remakes are getting greenlighted each year. Taking a look at the months ahead, for instance, we see 2009 offers no fewer than eleven horror remakes. Just for reference, that's roughly twice as many as were released in 2008.
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  • January 11th, 2009, 09:40 pm

Thoughts From Flipping Past the Golden Globes

Is it just me, or is Megan Fox HIDEOUS?

Also, I'm glad 30 Rock won Best Comedy!
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  • taylor_serenil
    11 Mar 2020, 18:05
    Assault at SwanCon
    on some days, i probably qualify for batfuck crazy. (i take my meds, i see my pros, i get the rent and the bills paid and quit binge-drinking and got down to "just" having a retail therapy habit and…
  • nick_kaufmann
    15 Apr 2019, 00:51
    Doctor Who: “Rosa”
    If you haven't seen the rest of the season, I don't want to give anything away. I'll just say that my criticism of Krasko still stands. But in retrospect "Rosa" is probably the real high point of the…
  • author_by_night
    15 Apr 2019, 00:42
    Doctor Who: “Rosa”
    Found this via google! I agree with your thoughts, including Krasko. (Though maybe he does turn up later? I'm just watching the series now, and only watching a few episodes at a time, rather than…
  • nick_kaufmann
    21 Feb 2019, 15:55
    Knifepoint Horror? Really?
    Wow, this is a blast from the past! I haven't really kept up with Knifepoint Horror, so it's hard to form an opinion. However, I think a podcast sounds like a much better use of their time than…
  • Ramsay Fulton
    21 Feb 2019, 13:51
    Knifepoint Horror? Really?
    Just stumbled upon this blog while searching Knifepoint Horror on google. Kind of funny reading this nearly 12 years later. Knifepoint Horror has actually become a fairly well-regarded and well-liked…

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