What horror trends do you think we will see in the next two years?

I think Hollywood will look to the foreign market to rip-off and remake ...

Taking into consideration that Tom Cruise is involved in remaking THE EYE and the fact that THE RING was successful, there will definitely be some dipping into the Asian ( buried beneath a cabin ) well ...

28 More Days Later
TCM: The New Next Generation II
Dawn of the Lepus

Remakes
sequels
Americanizing foreign movies
re releases of classics
more high tech vampire movies (ugh)
more shitty independants
team ups of horror icons
"tributes" aka rip offs

More Jaws sequels. Remember, by 2015 they have to be up to Jaws 19...

**shudders**

My hopes ?

- The next Kathryn Bigelow. Too many femmes not setting the world on fire like they undoubtedly can with less of the clunky geekisms that guys have.

- More net geeks making it in the film industry. I know I'm not alone in expecting HAM, Davis and Dre have a hand in this within 5 years.

- Another decade being mined for inspiration. Despite the lacklustre response to Eight Legged Freaks, I'm kind of pulling for the 50's

- More literary horror pictures. Not adaptations, just more thoughtful, character driven pieces. May, 28 Days Later, Dead End, Malefique, The Devil's Backbone have all proven that horror fans are gagging for quality, less visualy bombasric but no less beautiful or viceral horror. And we're slowly getting it.

- Inspired by the hopeful success of Hellboy, some genuinely intriguing horror team ups (Sherlock Holmes and The Vengeance Of Dracula Im looking directly at you) and an adaptation of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula.

I was hoping that The Sixth Sense and The Others would mark a return to that style of horror film. Maybe not.

It starts with a trickle. They were successful so (hopefully) we'll get a torent given time. There have certainly been more since The Sixth Sense.

Giles, you are a genius man.

I'd love to see another Bigelow or four. Have another flick like Near Dark hit... that would be gold. Same with the 50s idea. I'm still clambering for a lot of those flicks on DVD, such as Tarantula! and The Incredible Shrinking Man.

And yes, part of me wants to see a new Jaws sequel. Or make one.

There was a very similar thread on the main CHUD board, where I had this to say:

The fact that horror is topping the box office (FvsJ, JC2, Underworld, TCM) mainly means that more horror will get made. Studios don't judge individual films or their quality but merely the success of a certain genre.

This of course means that yes, we'll get even more remakes, rehashes and sequels. That's just inevitable. But it also means that new talent has a much better chance to get an original, intelligent film made. I'd like to list Guillermo del Toro as an obvious example. A few years ago nobody would have greenlit a 65 million $ HELLBOY film starring Ron Perlman. That they did do it now is because comic book films and supernatural stuff were doing very well in cinemas. HELLBOY was greenlit at the hight of the comic book film frenzy. Something similar could happen with horror right now. In fact, Lucky McGee convinced MGM to finance his newest film, THE WOODS ...

What I'm hoping this trend will do is give talented and visionary directors the chance to make good horror films on (mostly) their own terms.

If the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake makes a lot of money I'm pretty sure someone is going to give Romero those 10 mil. he wants to make the 4th DEAD film.

And most of all I pray that this will help Guillermo del Toro get his epic Lovecraft adaptation AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS off the ground. Because as of yet there seems to be a frightening lack of enthusiasm for the project at Dreamworks ... You see, they think of BLADE II as an action film and of HELLBOY as a comic book flick. They don't really think of GdT as a horror director at the moment. And ATMOM would not have flashy action and cool larger-than-live heroes. It would be a creepy film with tons of atmosphere and a sense of cosmic horror. If horror continues to perform strong he may be successful in getting it made.

Another trend that I'm seeing is that horror and action start to merge. Look at BLADE, RESIDENT EVIL, the upcoming VAN HELSING, HELLBOY and DAWN OF THE DEAD remake ... they all have elements of horror in them but they are more action films than straight fright fare. Which is not necessarily a bad thing but I hope the really creepy, intelligent horror films will also get made in the years to come.

There should be variety. I can take a few loads of crap if the occasioal gem is hidden in the steaming pile ...

There are two trends which have not been mentioned already.

One being the ridiculous amount of werewolf films. It all started with the surprising indie success of "Ginger Snaps". Then it went to shitty fly-by-night films like that one Kane Hodder starred in (what was that? Dark Wolf?). Now the studios are chiming in with this whole Cursed debacle. The fact that Craven and Williamson are involved will mean one of two things, the death knell of the resurgance (which would be welcome in my book) or another Scream-like revival (god help us all).

Now, the other over-used trend is the Zombie. It started with the success of Resident Evil. Then you've got Junk, Dawn of the Dead Remake, 28 Days Later... and a slew of really shitty independent zombie films (why does EVERYONE think they can make a good zombie movie?). Unfortunately, by the time Romero gets around to getting "Dead Reckoning" financed I think the trend will be all but dried up. I for one am sick of seeing zombies... give me "Day of the Dead" or "Zombie" anyday, but enough of this crap, it's getting played out REAL fast.

Id like to hear EVERYBODYs views on this. RR is a fan just like us.

As for trends:
American versions (doy!)
More gore slipping through the MPAA without the NC-17 curse.
Better straight-to-video stuff.

This is just speculation, but I predict a few films made that'll be considered "classics", a few underground hits, a few sequels, a few remakes, and a lot of crap. As soon as a trend is realized, it is ruined.
Seriously, I think there's going to be a lot more 80's inspired stuff soon.
Hey! Monster Squad remake! I'm looking at you...

Some people will claim it's the recession, 9-11 and general shittiness of this particular decade and our clueless leaders. I say the DVD had a big hand in this current and continuing trend of horror hitting it big. Several years ago the distribution companies started releasing the Asian, French, Italian, etc. horror films and found a gold mine. Not only that but I think many, smarter, execs stood up and realized that the masses wanted hard-core and their 18 year-old target audience for screenings which determined how much horror should be watered down was off. These kids don't have quite as much money to blow in theatres and on DVD after DVD which is where the real money is for the studios. A major release costs roughly $1 to produce in the end and the rest is all nearly profit. Far more than box office cash but of course everyone still gets their chunk but there's more to go around.

That's not the only reason it's just a natural progression to change as well. Every decade has been different than the one before it.

So there will be many more great horror films in this decade and like I've said before in the end I think it wil rival, if not surpass, the 70's. I love the 70's. Not only are the studios loosening their neck ties but guys like Roth will be in positions to start new studios which will exist nearly solely for the purpose of creating great, hard-hitting, horror movies. Dark Castle is only the beginning and what a great beginning that is, imo. Also there is the new Hammer which hopefully their ideas about targeting the teens in a bunch of crap and they'll be more sensible about things.

Independant filmmaking is where most of the new talent will come from and it won't be shitty. Horror is a sound investment these days, as always. Solid film ideas will be able to get more funding to make the movie they want to. Roth, Zombie, etc. will be helping these guys as well from behind and in front of the scenes. Like them or not they are fans and want the genre to thrive.

Carpenter and Romero will make GREAT movies within the next few years.

There will be alot of remakes, sequels and tapping into the foriegn market but with better results than the 80's or 90's could have churned out. Someone will make an American version of Audition.

The 00's are gonna kick some serious ass as far as horror is concerned.

I always love yer posts Floyd. And agreed on the DVD bringing about a resurgence too. Product flood = interest = more product flow.

Wishful thinking, perhaps, but I'd rather see NO TRENDS, knowing the way these trends tend to go once they get moving. Nothing but pure, passionate, unrestrained originality, vision, intelligence, exactitude, attention to detail, and, possibly above all, imagination.

Oh, and, yeah, maybe a little scariness.

Right back at ya brother. Yeah, supply and demand baby. The simplest equation in marketing.

I'd also like to see more werewolf films. If there's one thing that's being done to death it's the vampires but that's cool too. keep em coming.

Ginger Snaps 1 & 2 and the Dog Soldiers 2 flick we have to look forward to at least. Maybe someone can do a remake of AWIP and not fuck it up so much this time around.

I don't see how there are too many zombie movies either. Resident Evil, 28 Days Later (cough), House of the Dead (doesn't count) and what else?

Best post in here.

Although the sad fact is there will be some trends. And worse, the trendsetter will probably be Eli Roth.

I say Salva, the Wrong Turn guy, the Dog Soldiers guy, and the Ginger Snaps guy (yeah, memory is fucked)

Peter Jackson is coming back to horror with King Kong but I'd like to see him do more gore horror and I agree with Raimi also. Will Raimi come back though with all of his Spiderman sequels to make?

I'd like to see Roth, Zombie, McKee, Del Torro and guys like that lead the way and I'm thinking once they blaze the trail that guys like Carpenter, Romero and Argento will be reenergized and reinspired to make great horror of their own once again.

That is if they're still alive ... John Carpenter looks like a mummy lately. It's pretty disturbing actually ...

More Goth Vampyr movies (Sommers said that there will be 2 more "Van Helsing" movies..yay!)
'70s Remakes (Okay, one, and more of an homage to one which is REALLY based on the original book)

YES, I am REALLY excited about Van Helsing, but I also liked Underworld as well and can't wait to see the movie detailing Lucian and Sonja's relationship in the middle ages. And why oh why was Dracula 2000 a sequel instead of an update? I hope the rumored ABC miniseries of "Dracula" WILL be what 2000 should've been.

Whatever the future of horror movies is, lets just hope its a good one.