Even the surprisingly entertaining Child’s Play franchise entry Curse of Chucky shied away from cinemas in favor of home viewing. services have access to films from overseas like The Canal, Patrick: Evil Awakens, Blood Glacier, Wolf Creek 2 or Dead Snow 2: Red Versus Dead, and those that don’t fit the multiplex mold like The Sacrament, Proxy and Honeymoon. At any given time audiences with an iTunes account or home V.O.D. era have viewers had such access to such a large number of genre titles outside of the Hollywood bubble. In years to come it will almost certainly be these films that tell the story of the genre of the decade-and they won’t be the first indie horror films to resurrect the genre while Hollywood was busy driving it into the town Exciting new filmmakers are making the exhausted trope of found footage seem new, and creating sequels that aren’t just tired retreads of what came before. But in the realm of video on demand (V.O.D.), there’s a ton of evidence that the genre isn’t dead yet. In 2014, only Annabelle and The Purge: Anarchy-a disappointing spin-off and a mildly original sequel, respectively-could be called horror blockbusters. Mainstream horror, those films released into thousands of theaters across the country, has become an arid and desolate landscape recalling the endless sun-baked horizons of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It’s been nearly 20 years since Wes Craven’s Scream asked that question and revived a genre, but if you’re a horror-movie fan in 2014, your answer is unlikely to be anything that can be found in a suburban multiplex.
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