Michael Myers is back for the eleventh time if you count. But this last resurrection of the "Halloween" film franchise has a lot to offer. For starters, critics actually seem as one.
Maybe it's because it's about something – not the murderer, but the trauma that Jamie Lee Curtis's character has suffered since we saw her for the first time she was repulsing the murderous invasion of Myers 40 years ago.
But here's the thing about Curtis and her life bond with death: "You know, I do not like being afraid," she told correspondent Lee Cowan. "I really do not do it! There is no amount of money you could pay me to go into a horror movie!"
Be careful! Jamie Lee Curtis meets an unwanted visitor in "Halloween," a sequel to the 1978 horror film in which Curtis met for the first time the murderer Michael Myers.
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But these days, the public is dying to pay to get the solution to his fear. The sequel to "Halloween" this year has had a freak opening, scary an incredible $ 77.5 million.
This is the latest in a series of horror films that have killed him at the box office. In 2018, there was "A quiet place "($ 188 million)," The Meg "($ 142 million) and" The Nun "($ 116 million).
Last year, the "It" Stephen King reported more than 700 million dollars on the global scale. It's almost like a superhero, says Jordan Crucchiola, critic of Vulture. "It was the most profitable year of its kind in at least a quarter century," said Crucchiola.
She says that what Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and other good horror movies have since made us physically change even for a moment. "This is the only genre where, when you look at it, you are really transported in what the character feels on the screen to a literal degree," said Crucchiola. "And the idea of being able to empathically draw on people this way is a really cool thing!"
Margee Kerr is a sociologist who studies what happens in our brains when things move at night, whether in the movies or in a haunted house. she is the author of "Shout: Ice-cold Adventures in the Science of Fear" (PublicAffairs).
Daniel Kaluuya in "Get Out".
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And the best part: it was manufactured for only $ 4.5 million and far exceeded $ 250 million
This was the product of Blumhouse Productions, directed by Jason Blum, who is also behind the current "Halloween". "One of my favorite things about horror is that you can really insert a social message into a horror movie," he said. "We do not do it in all our movies, but they're more fun when we do it."
It's pretty much horror nowadays, so much so that as part of the Halloween Horror Nights of Universal Studios, there is a haunted attraction dedicated solely to his films.
"I feel very, very very much at home here, these are really my people," said Blum, leading Cowan through the haunted labyrinth of the house.
"Well, rooms people! Cowan noted.
Jason Blum leads Lee Cowan through a macabre scene at Universal Studios.
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His business model has been terribly good – cheap movies do not have to be synonymous with thrills, he says. They can really be quality movies.
Cowan asked, "Is there a ceiling you are looking for in terms of production costs?"
"Our cap is $ 5 million," said Blum.
"So, if someone introduces you to a movie that will cost more than $ 5 million?"
"Not interested in. I do not want to hear it.There is so much trash that accompanies an expensive movie.This is not fun."
Remember "paranormal activity"? It's his too. Built for $ 15,000, it brought in $ 200 million worldwide. "It's still to this day the most profitable movie record holder, as measured by the budget's percentage compared to the world's gross," Blum said.
The bad news for Jamie Lee Curtis is that horror movies are here to stay. The good news, however, is that, despite her fear of fear, she says her historic place in the genre that makes her feel uncomfortable is worth living.
"I jokingly said – when I die, what will happen, because we will all die, it will say" Halloween ", the actress dies." This is my fame, my fortune and my epitaph. "
