Horror movies need to be more than a big mood

The film made a multiple of 56 times on its $4.5 million budget and was less a breakthrough and more of a victory lap for Blumhouse.

Now we're onto the next wave of horror films, which have trended toward being about nothing.

This summer's three biggest relatively high-brow, low-budget horror films - Maxxxine, Longlegs, and Cuckoo - represent a move toward big moods rather than big ideas.

A horror movie doesn't have to be smart to be enjoyable, but is it unfair to ask them to at least not be so dim?

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