Monday Morning Quarterback Part II
By BOP Staff
May 4, 2010
David Mumpower: I am fascinated by the clear cut phases we've had over the past dozen years or so. There were all the Sixth Sense impersonators that are long forgotten now like What Lies Beneath and The Others (a brilliant movie that deserves more recognition). Then, we moved on to The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye et al that were mediocre remakes of very good Asian genre titles. Next, we suffered through that horrible Gorno period of Hostel, Saw sequels and other lowest common denominator titles. All the while, we've been working through a host of re-imaginings (God, how I hate that word).
Now that we're largely at the end of those (although we will still get a slew of sequels), I do think that Paranormal Activity's style has a chance to become the next big thing. The way that viral video has become ubiquitous in our lives means that an organic implementation of that as a movie and it's a meritocracy of sorts in that viewers decide what rises. That's the way people humorously indicate the movie industry as a whole works, but we all know what a joke that premise is. For that matter, we could do one of those videos ourselves using BOP webmaster Tony Kollath's creepy house stories as a basis. His home is more cursed than the Chicago Cubs.
Jason Lee: I would love to see the "savvy-character" horror movie come into bloom. Since the re-imagined horror films were so eager to re-use some of the most obvious and tired horror film cliches (from "It was just a cat" to "oh she's safe, there's no one in the bathroom with her but OH MY GOD, SHE CLOSED THE MEDICINE CABINET DOOR AND HE'S RIGHT BEHIND HER!"), it'd be nice to see some new characters act the way moderately-intelligent people would actually act in situations. No more going off to explore strange noises downstairs by yourself . . .
Shalimar Sahota: As Josh already mentioned, screwing around with 3D till we're so sick we'll be choking on our on vomit will be the next big "supposed" money maker. I imagine eyes will be on Piranha 3D this summer. And we'll still get remakes as well as sequels to franchises that should already be left alone (Scream 4 and another Final Destination have already been highlighted). I imagine studios are too scared to mix it up, but that's what I'd like to see. Why not a western horror? Or even a musical horror? I for one would be first in line for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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