What is it with the Brits and horror these days? They’ve been turning out genre stuff by the truckload lately.
Apparitions
Dead Set
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Demons
Being Human
Is this the beginning of a new trend? I guess the American’s have Tru Blood already. Does that mean it’s Canada’s turn?
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Well, if you go the psychological route….horror based stuff is about a loss of control, an inability to control the world around you. The UK is coming out of an eight year period where they felt like they were shackled to a U.S. government that was acting in ways they didn’t like but couldn’t escape. Zeitgeist is a funny thing…
To add a strictly business answer to Denis’, horror is a solid seller.
It often can be done with a reasonable budget and doesn’t need stars to sell. It generally makes it’s money back at minimum and often dips into a nice little profit.
I recently read that studios tend to keep a few horrors on their plate to help their bottom line and indies stay afloat by delivering consistant frights.
Canada’s contribution to scary?
A Harper Majority.
The title alone sends shivers down our spines. Good thing it’s fiction, eh?
Cheers.
Good news - the script for the first ep of Being Human has been made available at the BBC’s Writers’ Room.
There’s a lot to be scared of. (Perhaps a few more things in Britain than here.)
The British have also had a rich tradition in horror that goes back centuries, and that has involved some of the great names of literature. I think there’s greater acceptance of it as a viable film/TV genre than there is here.
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