Is this why so many are pretty bad? (there is video at the link)
How global warming is changing horror
We’re seeing the growth of a new genre
A new genre of horror has begun to emerge over the last decade: eco-horror, stories in which the planet itself is the monster. Prior to the early 2000s, when Nature was the monster in a horror movie, it was either animals run amok, like Jaws or The Birds, or plant-creatures, as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Little Shop of Horrors. (snip)
But that’s been changing since 2006, when An Inconvenient Truth was released and raised climate change awareness across the planet. Since then, we’ve seen more and more eco-horror, such as The Happening, The Ruins, The Last of Us, The Girl with All the Gifts, and Annihilation. Each of these movies involves deadly plants that are … just plants. They’re not aliens come to destroy us; they’re just terrestrial species that have evolved to target humans.
Eco-horror represents the new existential dread we feel about the irreversible damage we‘ve done to the planet — and the knowledge that Earth is increasingly less hospitable to us on a basic level. Watch the video above to learn more about the evolution of this new existential dread.
Just more movies that tend to fail in the theaters. Because they’re bad.
I saw Annihilation. Mildly entertaining. Nothing to do with ‘climate change’.
If you want a fun horror movie, check out Happy Death Day. I didn’t have a lot of hope for it, but, turned out to be a fun movie. As they say, a cross between Groundhog Day and old school slasher films. Not a lot of gore and blood, heavy story based, the jump scenes are mostly ignored. Fun, like a lot of the late 70’s into 80’s slasher films.
