{"id":12771,"date":"2022-10-26T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/halloween-ends-is-further-proof-that-audiences-want-original-horror\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:10:53","slug":"halloween-ends-is-further-proof-that-audiences-want-original-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/halloween-ends-is-further-proof-that-audiences-want-original-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Ends is further proof that audiences want original horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a great year for horror, but it\u2019s not the big-name franchise revivals that are making bank at the box office and getting rave reviews. Smile, a psychological slasher that\u2019s like It Follows but with a mental illness-related twist, made $22 million in its opening weekend. Barbarian, which stars Justin Long and centers on a rundown house with an unimaginably dark and disturbing secret, grossed $41 million against a $4 million budget. Scott Derrickson\u2019s The Black Phone<\/a>, which sees a young boy attempt to escape the clutches of a serial killer with help from the ghosts of his previous victims, made over $100 million against a budget of $18 million. Terrifer 2, a blood-soaked slasher about a killer clown, grossed over $5,400,000 million against a pretty small budget of just $250,000.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a great year for horror, but it\u2019s not the big-name franchise revivals that are making bank at the box office and getting rave reviews. Smile, a psychological slasher that\u2019s like It Follows but with a mental illness-related twist, made $22 million in its opening weekend. Barbarian, which stars Justin Long and centers on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t