Universal Monsters = Avengers?

[trashcanman]

www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/11/the-mummy-reboot-will-remain-a-horror-movie-but-will-also-blend-genres

Okay, first off: they're rebooting The Mummy as an "epic action-adventure"? Wow, who'd a fucking thunk? What a revolutionary idea. You know what? They should get Brendan Frasier to star in it! That's be so awesome! And oh my fucking god, when he says that The Mummy was the first movie to combine horror with - (derp) not action, but suspense. Jesus Christ. Really? Because it kind of seems like every horror movie ever has had suspense. I love the idea of recombining these monsters into a shared universe like the good old days, but when the head honcho feels the need to promise "there will definitely be horror in the monster movies", it gives you the distinct impression that there will not be any such thing. Maybe what Michael Bay considers horror. Assuring of of horror in a horror movie franchise? I'm callin it: this will be hot garbage.

[The Curmudgeon]

"I promise there will be horror in these movies." Yeah, that's pretty much the death knell for me. Remember the last movie to have "action" and "horror"? Do you remember, Hollywood? Van Helsing. Fucking piece of shit Van Helsing. If you want a scary film, an actual HORROR film, action is out the fucking window. The reason actual horror movies work (Texas Chainsaw, Exorcist, Halloween, Elm Street) is the victims are screwed and terrified and can't fight back. The Mummy remake was actually pretty fun; Brendan Fraser was a likeable Indiana Jones type and the Mummy was pretty cool, but scary? Not in the slightest, nor did it really try to be.

The mentality is probably that modern audiences just aren't going to be frightened by classic monsters like mummies anymore, so they have to make it more action packed (read, CGI overload) for a generation sitting Tweeting on their phones while watching it. They're forgetting, of course, that the Blair Witch Project had a WITCH be scary, and you didn't even see her. It's not the monsters, it's the people making the shit monster films.