Horror Film of 2007...How Have They Been So Far?

So far, it has sucked. Sure we have two good horror flicks with Grindhouse and 28 Weeks Later…but there has not been one single horror film hit. Even going back to December…you had a shitty remake called Black Christmas and that flopped. In January the Hitcher remake flopped (and was pretty bad), and Primeval flopped so hard so fast that I never even got to see it at the theater. Other horror films like: Grindhouse, The Hills Have Eyes 2, The Reaping, The Messengers, Dead Silence, 28 Weeks Later, and now Hostel 2. Every single one of them flopped. And with all of these horror films not doing well…then studios may not be rushing to make that many horror films next year. The Stephen King flick 1408 with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson? I don’t know that’s a toss up for me…it looks good and it may get one good weekend. But it may be crushed by the big boys since Die Hard 4 and Transformers will be coming out just right behind it. So I don’t know we’ll see about that. I do think though that the Halloween remake well be the first horror film hit. That’s mainly because there won’t be much competition (it comes out on August 31), the name alone will get people into the theaters, and I think there are a lot of Halloween fans that want to see a hardcore Michael Myers kicking ass and taking names (instead of getting beaten up by Busta Rhymes, or Myers chasing Dawson’s Creek type teenagers). So I think Halloween the remake will do well and make some money…whether it’ll be GOOD…who knows but we’ll all find out. Some would say Disturbia…it was a hit but to me that is not a horror film. It’s more of a teen thriller…but I don’t think a horror film can be PG-13...it just defeats the purpose. It’s like ‘we will scare you…but not that much’ or ‘we will mess with you…but we’ll hold back this much as well’. Coming out there will be the vampire flick 30 Days of Night, Resident Evil: Extinction, Saw IV, I Am Legend, and Alien Vs. Predator 2. So who knows…maybe we’ll get some welcome surprise hits later on for the horror film genre.