![]() ![]() People paid their hard-earned pennies just to stare at the images dancing in light. ![]() And since day one, horror films have always been a hotbed of new ideas, techniques and technology.Įarly cinema wasn’t really about storytelling. But the genre lies at the very foundation of cinema itself. We tend to think of horror as disposable, B-tier cinema, made on the cheap full of cheesy effects and cliches. So can horror save cinema from its decrepit state? It wouldn’t be the first time. You just haven’t tried it! It’s like saying you don’t like fish or sushi. ![]() “ ask what I do and I say, ‘I direct horror movies,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t like horror movies,’” director Michael Chaves (The Nun II) recently told us. Horror movies are about as old as cinema itself, and over the last 100 years, they’ve proven to be essential to the art and business of filmmaking in more ways than one. Check out the IGN's Festival of Fear schedule for the full rundown on everything that's going on in the countdown to Halloween! We're celebrating the spookiest season in style this year with over 20 articles, videos and more. “You can really get extreme with it.” IGN's Festival of Fear “I just think horror is, at its best anyway, an inherently creative genre,” says Chucky creator Don Mancini. The movie business is in the midst of a painful metamorphosis, but even in times of turmoil and change, one genre has quietly kept things alive and thriving. ![]()
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