Whether they’re making slasher, supernatural, psychological, or body horror films, horror audiences are extremely well-informed and often overly critical of genre clichés.
Although Cannibal Holocaust is considered to be the first found-footage film, The Blair Witch Project re-popularized the subgenre in 1999.
For a family film rated PG, Poltergeist trumps almost every R-rated horror film ever made.
Of course, one doesn’t need October 31 for inspiration to make a great horror film, but Halloween always gets us in the horror spirit.