As audiences encounter more intense forms of onscreen horror year after year, a horror filmmaker’s job becomes harder and harder.
While we are sure that Ridley Scott’s recent comments to Variety likely won’t sit well with certain comedy masters out there, he makes a point.
The things that scare us have not changed all that much over the years, but the intensity of which those scares are depicted on the silver screen has.
The nature of horror requires filmmakers to innovate and try new things consistently, and that can become incredibly taxing over the course of a lengthy Hollywood career.