Movies

is good-to-great horror always a blindspot to this community? pro-satoshi Feb 04, 10:53

Longlegs and Nosferatu both did better than I expected ... but I loved Nosferatu. Saw it three times! TheWeekendWarrior Feb 04, 11:00

A lot of online box office predictions / movie hype is based on pedigree. nfred659 Feb 04, 11:29

Terrifier 2 only did $11m at the box office, so there wasn't a whole lot of reason to bank on a breakout for the third movie. {nm} nfred659 Feb 04, 11:31

Re Nosferatu, I think people were hoping it would be a hit but just didn't want to be disappointed {nm} nfred659 Feb 04, 11:33

Eggers previous highest grossing film was just $34 million {nm} nfred659 Feb 04, 11:36

Yeah, but there was definitely a visible cultural imapact through merchandising suggesting 3 would be bigger pro-satoshi Feb 04, 11:47

Yet TWLFM underperformed. nm Antibody Feb 04, 12:58

Good to great? Quality and sales are vividly unrelated with respect to horror films [nm] SenJohnBlutarsky Feb 04, 14:18

genre audiences want good movies like any other audience Moviesnob Feb 04, 14:46

I do think some folks on this board struggle with trailers, especially horror trailer, because they aren't the target demo {nm} Moviesnob Feb 04, 14:47

We sense horror audience just wants to get out of the house for a few hours and will endure almost any level of quality (or lack of quality) SenJohnBlutarsky Feb 04, 20:18

That line of thinking is frankly reductive and more fit for Omegas {nm} Moviesnob Feb 05, 09:03

Horror fans not only will attend lousy movies but also will be attracted to them. It's a shambling genre with a downscale audience SenJohnBlutarsky Feb 05, 15:42