Anytime I go to a modern horror movie there is just no one in the theater. Maybe it's half full on a good day. Am I just going at the wrong time or is it related to where you live? I just don't get where all these large box office numbers are coming from. The Nun 2: just the name sounds dumb. I'll only be seeing it hopefully to laugh.
share90% of all modern horror, is literally 'jump-scares' (and little else)
Sure, they try lure in audiences (sometimes successfully) with all this 'Demonic' or 'Clown' or 'Paranormal" or 'Ghostly' bullshit...but seriously, there wasn't been remotely scary film in cinemas since JAWS (1975)
"there wasn't been remotely scary film in cinemas since JAWS (1975)"
What utter nonsense...
While fear is subjective, it is absurd to claim you were scared by a rubber shark in the water, but all these other movies since, were not even "remotely scary".
There was Alien in '79, Shining in '80, The Ring in '02, REC in '07, Hereditary in '18...
Great horror movies are released every year. The whole 'jumpscare' reliance is overstated and is confined to a few franchises. Also people who single out jumpscares and hate them with a passion just come across as weak to me, makes me think they get startled by them easily and develop a strong aversion to them. You very rarely see people demeaning a movie for relying on gore. I mean a lot of the 80s horror movies were just women taking their tops off and people getting stabbed to death. Others were just comedies with a lot of gory FX.
I saw Jaws when I was about 9 years old. Wasn't scary to me then, isn't scary now. I bet you most modern audiences in their 20s wouldn't find it scary. Good movie sure but not scary. Same goes for The Exorcist. Though Halloween did petrify me when I saw it at 11 years of age.
Scares are very subjective. A big part of it is age and experience. It's so much easier to be scared when you're a kid or young teen. This seems lost on some people who are in their mid-40s and act like movies were so much scarier 'back in the good old days'. Nah dudes you were just younger and easier to scare.
Depends on your locality and also what time you're going. Go to see a horror movie on opening weekend, saturday evening in a populated area and it'll be packed. If you wait till it's been out say 10 days and go during the midweek then of course it'll be less packed.
The Conjuring movies have a strong 70-30 ratio in favor of international (Non-US/Canada) box office. These movies are huge in Latin America, South & East Asia with strong showings in Europe too. The Nun II had the second biggest opening weekend for a horror movie ever in Brazil.
Slasher movies, like the recent Blumhouse Halloween trilogy are the opposite. They have a very strong domestic lean nearing 70%. It's always been the case. Slashers are particularly US friendly, supernatural is especially strong overseas.
It's culturally quite interesting. Some anecdotal accounts online have informed me that people in South-East Asia for example view movies like Halloween and Scream as 'thrillers' and not true horror. Culturally for them hauntings, demons, possessions... basically supernatural evil is what horror is.
In any case The Nun II had the third biggest opening weekend domestically for horror this year after Scream VI and only a smidge below Insidious: The Red Door. The Conjuring movies are as blockbuster as horror gets. Huge box office returns.
I don't know where you've been but many and I mean many horror movies from the last few years have been extremely sucessful and every time I go to the cinema the theater is always filled.
shareI went last Friday at 9pm after work and the cinema was PACKED, it may depend on where you live or what times
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