In the past couple years we’ve seen titles like the aforementioned Get Out, Andres Muschietti’s IT, and John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place become phenomenal successes, but there really isn’t anything that ties the titles together beyond genre categorization.
Jason Blum and John Carpenter’s comments aside, it is worth noting that there is something somewhat special about the current horror boom in that it can’t be readily defined.
One has to wonder if there’s a possibility that the variety involved might sustain things for a little longer — but we’ll just have to wait and see.