No horror franchise with even the slightest hint of earning potential is left on the sidelines for too long, unless it ends up embroiled in a complicated rights battle, which is the reason we’ve not seen Jason Voorhees murder his way through a new Friday the 13th for over a decade at this point.
Even lesser known titles and properties that on the surface held very little sequel potential have found themselves reinvented. Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever was remade just fourteen years after the original, while found footage phenomenon The Blair Witch Project spawned an entirely fictional and completely disastrous sequel just a year later, as well as a spiritual successor in 2016. The point is, horror is so malleable and consistently popular that the studios appear to operate under the assumption that if it worked once, it’ll work multiple times.
The unlikely creative duo of David Gordon Green...
Even lesser known titles and properties that on the surface held very little sequel potential have found themselves reinvented. Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever was remade just fourteen years after the original, while found footage phenomenon The Blair Witch Project spawned an entirely fictional and completely disastrous sequel just a year later, as well as a spiritual successor in 2016. The point is, horror is so malleable and consistently popular that the studios appear to operate under the assumption that if it worked once, it’ll work multiple times.
The unlikely creative duo of David Gordon Green...
- 1/7/2021
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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