{"id":10836,"date":"2020-07-20T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:35:01","slug":"back-to-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/20\/back-to-the-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Low-Budget Horror Is Thriving This Summer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

These dirt-cheap productions are making money, finding eager audiences, and garnering critical praise during a largely dead box-office season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by DAVID SIMS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gory thrills of\u00a0Becky\u00a0make the film solid drive-in theater viewing. QUIVER<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only during a global pandemic would the biggest film in the U.S. be not a superhero blockbuster or a\u00a0Fast and the Furious<\/em>\u00a0sequel, but a low-budget horror movie about a teenage boy in the suburbs doing battle with a witch living next door. Thanks to the coronavirus disrupting the usual summer release schedule,\u00a0The Wretched<\/em>\u00a0now belongs to a\u00a0tiny group of films<\/a>\u00a0that have topped the U.S. box office for five weekends in a row, including\u00a0Titanic<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Avatar<\/em>. Yes, those massive movies made a little more money (The Wretched<\/em>\u00a0pulled in a healthy $1.7 million at drive-in theaters) and faced slightly tougher competition. But it\u2019s still surreal to acknowledge that, for the entire month of May, cinemagoers were most drawn to a weird little film with\u00a0a naked woman wearing a deer skull<\/a>\u00a0on its poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, most of the other films that have conquered the box office this summer are also dirt-cheap horror efforts:\u00a0Becky<\/em>, which features the comedy star Kevin James as a murderous neo-Nazi;\u00a0Followed<\/em>, a haunted-house thriller that plays out entirely on a computer screen; and, most recently,\u00a0Relic<\/em>, an Australian horror drama that was well received at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival. Under normal circumstances, these films would\u2019ve followed a similar release pattern\u2014a limited U.S. theatrical run combined with instant availability to rent online. Now they\u2019re practically the only new films available for viewing at the country\u2019s outdoor screens, with regular theaters shut down by the pandemic. It turns out that inexpensive horror flicks, which have been part of the Hollywood ecosystem as long as cinema has existed, are thriving as a result of a sparse film landscape and a largely quarantined moviegoing populace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Atlantic Why Low-Budget Horror Is Thriving This Summer These dirt-cheap productions are making money, finding eager audiences, and garnering critical praise during a largely dead box-office season. by DAVID SIMS The gory thrills of\u00a0Becky\u00a0make the film solid drive-in theater viewing. QUIVER Only during a global pandemic would the biggest film in the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}