Author: Alex Kane

Modern horror is in a strange but great place. It’s maybe the only genre where breakout stars and cultural phenomenons are happening on a pretty consistent basis. Breakout stars and cultural phenomenons are exciting things, good things for the movie business as a whole. In my opinion, when the breakout star of a movie is the filmmaker, whose name becomes synonymous with a certain style or expected quality, and can pretty much sell a movie just on their name, especially in the horror genre, then that is a heck of a lot more exciting than a breakout performer sprouting onto…

It’s been twelve years since the first Conjuring movie was released, or I should say, unleashed on the general public in 2013. Since then, there have been multiple movies released in an attempt to create a Conjuring cinematic universe. That attempt might have dulled or tainted the outstanding quality of the original movie, but it no doubt was a monster financial success. Horror franchises throughout history have been pretty strange because the quality of the subsequent films ranges so drastically, and it oddly enhances the power of the originals when in other genres, it seems to be the total opposite,…