@NealD
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:24

Has the horror genre become more popular over the years? What made it more mainstream and accepting?

article image placeholderHorror films has it become mainstream.
Did you feel like maybe you were an outcast because you liked horror films because the kids in your neighborhood didn't. It wasn't so popular. And the horror films came on late at night and they were restricted. And there was no horror conventions around. I can because I grew up in the 80s and horror was not popular. You were not cool. If you liked horror films over the years and now into the 2000s, I've seen a big, drastic change where horror has become huge

Talking the horror genre . Are we past the stigma it’s always carried? Has horror films become more mainstream and what made it more popular?

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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:48
And at around 1314, there was that wave of horror films that was coming out like the remake of The Fog. What was that one about the Tooth fairy Darkness Falls, things like that. And I felt like it was the thing to do Friday night, like all of the kids wanted to go in groups of ten or 15 and see the same stupid horror movie together. And all we did was just basically crack jokes the entire time barely look at the screen
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@FilmStarlet
Aces Of Fun
@FilmStarlet · 0:43

#film #horror

They've seen the trailer, they see the plot, and that's why they go, they don't care just how good it is, as long as it's scary, as long as the trailer did enough to freak them out. That's the reason why they go and going to see a horror film. It's almost like waiting in line at a roller coaster. You know, that you're going to get scared, you know, you're going to get a thrill out of it
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@NealD
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 3:06

@Taylor

Well, Taylor, I agree with you. It is getting more cerebral. And I think that's a good thing. And I think it's pushed horror to the forefront. And now you can't really compare the horror in the past ten years, years versus the mid 90s and the 80s. I come from the golden age of horror, which was the 80s, which was pretty much the slasher era. And that's what I grew up with
@NealD
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 1:52

@FilmStarlet

It follows where this entity is following this girl because she had sex. It's going to attract the youth more. So. Yeah, you're right. I'm okay with that. I think that's cool because it's bringing a younger audience to experience horror
@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:13

@NealD

No, not Freddie Kruger Nightmare on M Street and the Amityville Horror years and years ago, and not having a single soul within my friends and family circles to discuss the movies with most of my friends would just be so appalled that I even managed to stomach such movies and even was wanting to discuss these movies with them. So I guess the taboo has always been around. I would say that it is still around, at least in my circles to a large extent
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@NealD
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:23

@NamelessJournal

Hello name Ms. Journal, and thank you for your insightful reply. And you're right. It is still a taboo somewhat, and I think it will always be a taboo because his graphic, especially the slasher films and that subgenre rather, is hard to take for most people. But again, coming back to me, I grew up in that era where the video nasties were very popular and they were in the theaters and they were on the TV, and I watched them as a child
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