News Summary

• This has been such an incredible year for the genre that even if you hated half of the acclaimed titles that have been released in the last nine-plus months, you’d still have at least a half dozen to awe at.
• The brilliance that we’ve seen from the genre since January doesn’t jive with the underwhelming slate of releases that major studios have set up for scary season.
• It feels like there were a lot of dropped balls around the industry, and given the state of the box office, it’s not a great time for balls to be dropped.