20 Upcoming Horror Movies NOBODY Asked For
These horror movies are happening, one way or another.
Even while the film industry as a whole is in a precarious state right now, the horror genre continues to absolutely thrive.
From ambitious, auteur-driven swings on the big screen to smaller indie horror flicks on streaming, genre fans basically have an embarrassment of riches to work their way through. But it's also fair to say that some announced horror movies simply make you sit up and ask, "Who the hell is this made for?"
Sometimes a horror film seems so antithetical to creativity, to good taste, and even to box office success, that you have to wonder why it got greenlit in the first place. And so, it's safe to say that just about nobody - no audience members, anyway - asked for the following horror movies, which are all on the way regardless.
Some have already been shot, others are still in early development, but each is expected to release in the near-future.
Now, to be clear, we're not saying that all of these 20 horror films are going to be bad; some of them could even turn out great, but each will nevertheless have to defy the assertion that there's not much of a demand for them to exist.
20. Mike Flanagan's The Mist
It was recently announced that a new adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 cosmic horror novella The Mist is in the works, with the great Mike Flanagan set to write and direct.
In theory, Flanagan's involvement should be a cause for celebration, considering both his stature in the horror realm and prior success adapting King's works. But Frank Darabont's previous 2007 film already did such a fantastic job of translating King's source material to the big screen, complete with a bleak new ending which King himself said he wished he came up with, that it's tough to see how a new take can really compete.
Again, Flanagan is tremendously talented and has already assured fans that he's planning to do something very different with King's original story, but considering we already have a very, very good big-screen version of The Mist, this can't help but feel like a waste of his creative energies.
Basically, nobody asked for it, but it'll probably be pretty good anyway, albeit endlessly compared to Darabont's original.