Is franchise horror dead? Where does that leave us?

[FreddysFingers]

Freddy-- Good point on the late '60s and '70s boom in Spiritism and supernatural drama. That's one of my favorite periods in horror history. However, we still had random slasher films coming out. Admittedly, they were mostly drive-in fare that didn't get the high profile or heavy distro of, say, THE SENTINEL or THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD. But for every BEYOND THE DOOR, there were two BLACK CHRISTMASes.

Slashers began peaking in the late 70s (1978 and 1979) but were mostly indie movies or like you said, drive-in fare. Most studios wanted spiritual or supernatural movies but the indie genre found out about slashers and began making them in mass quantities. It was sort of an underground sub-genre that was gaining momentum fast. When the 80s started, slashers peaked and took over the studios.

[COLOR="Red"]They arent taking a chance because perhaps,,, they are afraid to know the feedbacks and the result of their gross revenue...lol.

But slasher flick producers and directors...for goodness sake!

What do you have to lose? If you don’t take the risk to create another movie with recognizable villains, you could lose many other things that will erode your abilities to be who you really are! So I am encouraging those producers to Try to make again!
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See, that is exactly why there is so many cliche movies coming out like The Unborn or The Roommate and My Soul To Take because studios want to stick with the familiar. That's why Dougherty's Trick R Treat was shelved for so long because the studio was afraid of what audience might say about it, despite it's rave reviews. Studios will keep dishing out cliches because MODERN audiences want cliches. Horror has since become a haven for high schoolers, middle schoolers and casual people. They don't care about the scares, the story, the characters, the production... all they care about is blood, tits and a body count. Once moviegoers stop liking those things, things will change. Until then, kiss the old horror formulas goodbye.

But in every horror film death is always present since in every horror movie I seen somebody dies! lol

Of course, but in the Final Destination films death is the serial killer. It's not some loon, or a monster, or even a disease but rather death itself. Sure it may not be incarnate or shown as a grim reaper but he's there.