Is franchise horror dead? Where does that leave us?

[Caftan King]

[COLOR="YellowGreen"]You are right that some moviegoers love horror movies because they just love to be scared, and enjoy watching people die in a brutal way. But maybe that is just in your place.

Because here in my place, like what I said before, even those who are not an avid fan of horror movies they actually do care about these cinematic elements especially visual and special effects. You will hear to these people when they watch a specific film, that "some gore and violence on that movie worked, but some did not" . They might also say that "they only used typical local scare tactics, like jumpy music and sudden camera cuts".

So every moviegoer (casual or die-hard fan) is a keen observer. They need to understand the story, direction, and effects for them to be terrified. Once they understand the whole concept of the movie, some gory and violent scenes will ran for only 5 minutes but will stuck on their mind. So giving them gore and violence which are parts of cinematic elemets, and they will come back over and over again.[/COLOR]

For most generic moviegoers, you can remake THE EXORCIST and call it POSSESSION and they will only go in to see it so they can see blood and violence.

If that happens, regardless of how these films fare critically, horror movies have a long shelf life. People would still patronize these films decades after their first release.