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Those who've followed some of the most buzzworthy horror movies to be released as of late may have noticed that body horror has been back in a big way. And that trend continues with the latest title on the schedule of upcoming horror movies, Lee Cronin’s "The Mummy." If you’ve been wondering why the subgenre (which had its heyday in the 1980s) is back, know that CinemaBlend talked to horror Cronin and producer James Wan to get their thoughts about why grotesque body transformations are all the rage right now.

James Wan is easily one of the most prolific horror filmmakers to have worked in the past few decades. Throughout his career, Wan has worked in directorial and producing capacities for franchises like "Saw," "The Conjuring," "Insidious" and "M3GAN." This new "The Mummy" movie honestly feels on brand for him in the best possible way. In terms of the resurgence of body horror, here's what Wan shared with CB.
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00:00I think it's cyclical, right?
00:01I think, you know, we go through a period of supernatural
00:03and then we're like, oh, we want to go back to a slasher.
00:05Now we want to go into the body horror aspect
00:07and we want to go into the giallo.
00:09I don't know.
00:10I think just horror goes through a cycle
00:14and, you know, and then you just,
00:15the audience just tells us kind of what they feel like.
00:18Sure.
00:19That's true.
00:19Yeah.
00:19No, I think that, I think it is cyclical.
00:21I think also we're kind of in a little bit of a spell
00:24where we had a lot more maybe cerebral horror pre-COVID
00:27and then post-COVID, you know,
00:29that sense of event has come back
00:31in terms of watching horror movies
00:32and body horror or these kind of visceral moments,
00:35they lend themselves to the spectacular
00:38and I think audiences are looking for the spectacular at the moment.
00:40Yeah, I think that's a good one.
00:41I would say that practical has always thrived in the horror genre.
00:45Yeah.
00:46People have never, like I remember in the 90s
00:48when they were doing CGI-centric monsters and all that,
00:51no one really cared for that, right?
00:53At least not CGI supernatural ghosts.
00:55People don't really like that
00:56and so practical has always been very strong in the horror genre
01:01or at least being able to capture what is happening in camera
01:06and so it's really cool, you know,
01:08when Lee and I kind of got into this very early on,
01:10we knew that we wanted to make this movie
01:12as practical as we can possibly achieve.
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