As such, it’s a responsibly-budgeted PG-rated “horror movie for kids” along the lines of Sony’s Goosebumps franchise. The low-budget original has a great pitch, as it’s about mass murderer picking off victims in a Knotts Scary Farm/Universal Halloween Horror Nights-type event. Whether it’s closer in quality to Halloween H20, Halloween II or Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (which earns an “A” for effort), but rest assured that this one is going to be a box office monster. But either way, the Julius Avery-directed and Billy Ray/Mark L. Smith-penned horror flick looks bloody good. First of all, as evidenced by Split, Get Out, It, A Quiet Place, The Nun and (presumably) Halloween, horror movies are one of the few genres that still qualify as “event movies” outside of superhero flicks and big animated movies.

Source: Forbes September 14, 2018 19:52 UTC