*Light spoilers for all of the Alien films, Jurassic Park, and Jurassic World, read at your own risk.
Are we really in a “Golden Age of Horror”? On one hand we get films like Get Out (2017), The Babadook (2014), and Hereditary (2018). On the other hand, we get films like… Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). Horror films are either incredibly creative and dynamic or so god damn banal and obvious.
But there is a noticeable difference in horror productions now. For roughly thirty years studios have been remaking horror films into blockbuster action flicks. The most obvious contender is The Mummy (2017). However this trend isn’t limited to The Dark Universe franchise, it has seeped into others. If one looks at the trajectory of the Alien franchise, you can clearly see it’s deviation from its horror roots. Sure, Alien: Covenant (2017) has horror elements, but by the second act it ultimately becomes an action film. Two androids beat the shit out of each other and a Xenomorph is shot out into space for the hundredth time in the franchise.
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