The Oh, And then. The Hi everyone and welcome to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Harrod Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subasati and I don't know about you guys I don't know where you are right now

but it is getting steamy here in the room org vault it is summer. Million Dollar Films are opening every weekend now.

So that means one thing.

It is blockbuster season and not the video store, actual like movies that are coming out that you have to pay money to see and can't download.

We at the faculty felt it was important to talk about this very strange and very small phenomenon of the horror blockbuster film because it is kind of an

anomaly that has appeared every, you know, a couple years, you know, a couple times a decade,

it pops up. But horror films are generally seen as

being subversive or on the outskirts of good taste however you want to put it so it's a

very interesting thing to me that a major studio would take hundreds of millions of

dollars and try to make one of these films and make them for the masses.

I think you touched on a really interesting point there is the fact that a lot of the most

popular and successful horror movies were these sleeper hits, right? These independent films

that just blew up and became huge. And the thing with Blockbusters is these studios don't like to take much of a risk

when it comes to making a movie with that big a budget.

I think Jaws just blew everyone's minds and so there were so many blockbuster jaws spin-offs right trying to

recreate what jaws did right and in the case with the horror blockbuster particularly

in the cases of the two that we're going to be looking at in this episode there were

precedence there were successful things that were in place preempting these

blockbusters which is what made these companies think that they would be such

huge successes.

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