[Horror Movies 101] The History of Horror Cinema: 2011-2019 - Nightmare on Film Street
-Let’s face it, Hollywood has always been remaking movies. Always have, always will. The 2010s have been no different with A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Crazies (2010), I Spit on Your Grave (2010) and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Carrie (2013), Suspiria (2018), Fright Night (2011), Poltergeist (2015), The Evil Dead (2013) and Maniac (2012) all getting the remake/reboot/retell treatment.
Sequels, a mainstay in horror cinema for decades by this point, also drove audiences to theaters in, well, droves. The Child’s Play franchise saw three new installments with Curse of Chucky (2013), Cult of Chucky (2017) and a remake of the original with Child’s Play (2019). There is also a Child’s Play television show in development from franchise creator Don Mancini simply titled Chucky to be released on the SyFy network sometime in 2020.
Other sequels of the last ten years include Hellraiser: Judgement (2018), the tenth entry in the Hellraiser series and Halloween (2018), the direct sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter original of the same name. The latest Michael Myers movie marks the eleventh film in the franchise with two more sequels scheduled for release with Halloween Kills in 2020 and Halloween Ends in 2021.
Cyber horror movies came to be when filmmakers began using tech as the basis of their scary stories. What better way to exploit the very things almost everyone uses daily than to turn them against us in horrific new ways? Followers (2017) uses the found footage sub-genre for its literal creepy take of social media and their ‘followers’ while Ratter (2015) and Share. Like. Follow (2017) tackle online stalking to frighteningly new levels. The Den (2013), Cam (2017) and Girl House (2014) give a dangerous peek at the world of spy cams and voyeurism, Ingrid Goes West (2017) gives audiences a terrifying view of social media stardom while Don’t Hang Up (2016), Unfriended (2014) and it’s sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) prove that cyberbullying can have some very serious repercussions.
-Let’s face it, Hollywood has always been remaking movies. Always have, always will. The 2010s have been no different with A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Crazies (2010), I Spit on Your Grave (2010) and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Carrie (2013), Suspiria (2018), Fright Night (2011), Poltergeist (2015), The Evil Dead (2013) and Maniac (2012) all getting the remake/reboot/retell treatment.
Sequels, a mainstay in horror cinema for decades by this point, also drove audiences to theaters in, well, droves. The Child’s Play franchise saw three new installments with Curse of Chucky (2013), Cult of Chucky (2017) and a remake of the original with Child’s Play (2019). There is also a Child’s Play television show in development from franchise creator Don Mancini simply titled Chucky to be released on the SyFy network sometime in 2020.
Other sequels of the last ten years include Hellraiser: Judgement (2018), the tenth entry in the Hellraiser series and Halloween (2018), the direct sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter original of the same name. The latest Michael Myers movie marks the eleventh film in the franchise with two more sequels scheduled for release with Halloween Kills in 2020 and Halloween Ends in 2021.
Cyber horror movies came to be when filmmakers began using tech as the basis of their scary stories. What better way to exploit the very things almost everyone uses daily than to turn them against us in horrific new ways? Followers (2017) uses the found footage sub-genre for its literal creepy take of social media and their ‘followers’ while Ratter (2015) and Share. Like. Follow (2017) tackle online stalking to frighteningly new levels. The Den (2013), Cam (2017) and Girl House (2014) give a dangerous peek at the world of spy cams and voyeurism, Ingrid Goes West (2017) gives audiences a terrifying view of social media stardom while Don’t Hang Up (2016), Unfriended (2014) and it’s sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) prove that cyberbullying can have some very serious repercussions.
