Recently, audiences have been obsessed with the supernatural: from the sorcery of Harry Potter to the classic vampires and werewolves of Twilight and now to a massive zombie craze spawning countless television shows and movies.  The viewers want more and production companies are only too happy to oblige, just as they did with the "found footage" boom that happened a few years back (which often shared strong ties with these paranormal concepts).

The modern popularity of the horror/supernatural genre leads me to ask two questions:
What do current audiences find so appealing in these films in order to make them stand out from others?  
And once they die out, what do you think the next "big thing" will be?

Remakes of remakes.

Did you just say the classic vampires and werewolves of Twilight?"

Seriously?


Phil

Ha, let me clarify.  The classic concepts of vampires and werewolves, which were rehashed for Twilight.  Twilight isn't what made them classic, nor were they used in the manner that those monsters traditionally were, but the base idea is still there.

BTW -- where in the heck have you been Gage?  Haven't seen you around in awhile!

Twilight didn't rehash the concepts of vampires and werewolves; Twilight bent them over a car and raped them.


Phil

Quoted from oJOHNNYoNUTSo BTW -- where in the heck have you been Gage?  Haven't seen you around in awhile!

Good to see you again, Johnny!  It's been a few months since I've visited the boards or written/critiqued anything (I just started college).  But it's good to be back and I can't wait to get into the groove of things again.

Quoted from dogglebe Twilight bent them over a car and raped them

You tellin' me Dracula didn't sparkle??

Not on his best day!


Phil

I guess people like to get lost in new worlds.  But, the actual fad right now, is Adapting things.  Such as comics, books, games and such for the big screen.  Adaptation is the big thing at the moment, and likely will be for the considerable future.

In regards to Harry Potter, it holds sentimental value to a lot of people, that is why they went back each time a movie came out.  I read the first book in 1998, watched the final movie and read the final book in 2011.  It was a childhood thing, per se, I grew up with it, so it'll always be special.

Twilight, really no clue how that got as famous as it did.  A bunch of prissy, pale vamp-teens that sparkle in the daylight and battle shirtless Native American werewolves over some chick that blinks more than someone with epilepsy whilst watching a fireworks display, makes zero logical sense to me, as to why that would make an interesting premise for a book, or movie.

Walking Dead, awesome, love it because it's a TV show, with zombies, lol.  Used to have to go to the cinema to catch one of those.

WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT BIG THING?

No clue, I doubt there ever will be.  Right now, we have remakes of 80s and 90s movies, upcoming videogame adaptations, Marvel's cinematic universe, and of course, sequels such as Star Wars, which also fall into the "supernatural" category.

So yeah, who knows, might actually be "original content", but I doubt it.

The supernatural has been filmed since the 1920's so I don't see it a a recent craze. (Nosferatu, anyone?).

They won't die out.  The next craze will be...the same genre's that have always existed.

My big problem with Twilight is that it took two monsters and made them sympathetic good guys.  That, and Kristen Stewart; she sucks.




Phil