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James Wan, Lee Cronin, and Jason Blum break down the trends in horror cinema, explaining why certain subgenres like body horror experience resurgences and how they connect with what audiences are looking for.
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00:00I think it's cyclical, right? I think, you know, we go through a period of supernatural and then we're like,
00:04oh, we want to go back to slasher and now we want to go into the body horror aspect and
00:08we want to go into the giallo. I don't know. I think just horror goes through a cycle and, you
00:15know, and then you just, the audience just tells us kind of what they feel like.
00:18Sure. That's true. Yeah. No, I think that, I think it is cyclical. I think also we're kind of in
00:23a little bit of a spell where we had a lot more maybe cerebral horror pre-COVID and then post
00:28-COVID, you know, that sense of event has come back in terms of watching horror movies and body horror or
00:34these kind of visceral moments, they lend themselves to the spectacular. And I think audiences are looking for the spectacular
00:40at the moment.

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