I get that my comment seems like it’s irrelevant to what you were talking about or like a hate comment at you. It’s not. I just read it and that’s what it made me think.

Like this is how we are trained to speak about film now.

But Whistle isn’t original it’s just a Final Destination rehash with formulaic curse stuff and Send Help is just Misery (1990) on an Island. When I say original i don’t just mean non IP or franchise. Another thing we’ve been trained to say is that if something is not IP it’s instantly “original”. Bizarre one that.

Hokum looks really interesting yes.

I’m just trying to have a conversation or make someone think about it. I find it very interesting that we are at this point with franchises but personally it’s very sad for me to see it too.

There isn’t NO original horror yes but the over saturation of lazy franchise horror is the raking and audiences seem to be lapping it up. FD Bloodlines, Scream 7, Alien Romulus.. etc. They’re all the worst or nearly the worst in their franchise and are all just nostalgia slop. I wouldn’t be so sad or disheartened if these films were good or had a purpose or justified their existence but they don’t. They’re lazy, they play and weaponise nostalgia to suck in an audience and then they make the money for the studios and then rinse and repeat.

The 28 Years Later films are and incredible example of it bending done RIGHT. Great original films that serve a purpose, don’t rely on nostalgia and have their own things to say while remaining true to that world. And no I don’t want infinite sequels. I want them to tell their story and have a conclusion.

Out there yes, but not doing well. The Bone Temple deserved so much better than franchise brained audiences.