7. Haunted House Movies
The producers who made
Insidious and
Sinister made two "haunted house" movies in a row. Having done that, you'd think they'd be content with moving on and trying something a bit different, even if they still wanted to stay with the realms of the horror genre. How about a movie about a serial killer who dresses like a bunny rabbit and murders his victims in a tunnel? Or a little thriller about a guy who likes to collect the heads of his ex-girlfriends and the plucky young journalist who has to figure all this out? Okay, so I'm just spitballing here (though I am totally serious about both of those), but my point is: change it up a little when you've essentially made the same movie twice in a row. Nope: there's another freakin' haunted house movie coming out this year called
The Conjuring, and guess who's making it? The producers of
Insidious and
Sinister, of course. And it looks likeĀ well, a trailer for a movie you've seen before already a zillion times. I mean, even Patrick Wilson is in it. Patrick Wilson was in
Insidious, by the way, playing a man of a similar position and temperament. I'm not saying that we should stop making haunted house movies forever, but haunted house movies had already been done to death in the '80s, and wow we're remaking the same haunted house movie over and over again. Do they make money? Yes. Do we know why? People like being scared, but they also like being scared in familiar ways, I guess. As for me, I'd like to be scared about a man who dresses like a bunny and hangs out in tunnel. Is that too much to ask?