Would an animated horror movie be successful in this day and age?
Would an animated horror movie be successful in this day and age?
Grayson Thomas
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Jackson Cruz
Make it about living dolls, they work great in animation.
Noah Martinez
Good adult animation?
Someone would find someway to fuck it up completely before it even came out.
Juan Baker
Imagine putting out a movie in this day and age
Cameron Miller
Financially? Doubt it.
Adam Lopez
Specialty in stop motion
Grayson Garcia
No our internal data shows that for every frame finished, we would lose around 10-20 usd. Even if we somehow got a publishing deal with Netflix or Amazon, maybe HBO, we would still lose out because animation is primarily for children. The US is our biggest target audience, and for some reason grown adults would rather watch childrens cartoons for children, than adult cartoons for adults. The irony here is that they want the childrens cartoons to be more adult - like, but take place in childlike settings. It's bizzare.
You will not see adult animation ever become mainstream for the next fifty years.
Luke Myers
Hard to tell. If it's got a good premise it might be a sleeper hit, but the thing about Horror movies is they're pretty cheap to make. The only way you'd keep costs in line with standard "Big" horror fair is if you made it 2D, if you tried to make it CGI it would be too costly to turn a profit unless you pulled some Sausage Party shenanigans and literally abused the fuck out of your work force and straight up didn't pay some of them for months of work. A traditional 2D animated feature would be feasible to have quality looking work in the 10 million frame, which would mean all it needs is a strong Halloween opening and you'd make the money back, but therein lies the problem. 2D animation is already a hard sell in america as it is, it's been over a decade since america had a successful 2D feature, and there's very little overlap with that and horror fans, you'd have to give them something they wouldn't see anywhere else but still feel fresh and scary, and that's not easy.
TLDR, probably wouldn't make much money but if you kept it 2D you're reducing the risk of a bomb greatly.
Robert Mitchell
No. Especially not with Kung Fu Flu collapsing an entire industry.
Brody Harris
That’s what streaming is for.
Andrew Powell
Horror is a concept that just doesn't work in the same way in animation as it does in live action. The only real way to make Horror animated would be to make something surreal like Junji Ito or anything in that style.
John Thomas
Honestly, this. Part of why a lot of horror movies are even financially successful to begin with is because they're made with a low enough budget that a profit is easily obtainable, even if it doesn't become a super mainstream hit. Animation isn't exactly cheap.
Robert Jackson
Lots of YouTube animators have the right idea, I feel like a successful animated horror movie should play up the uncanny valley and surreal horror aspects of it.
They could just take the Monster House route and make motion capture horror movies for dirt cheap.
Carson Jenkins
>They could just take the Monster House route and make motion capture horror movies for dirt cheap.
Monster House cost 75 million dollars and didn't even double its budget. 75 million is absurdly high for a horror movie, even the first It movie, a true blue Horror Blockbuster, cost just 35 million to make. Motion Capture isn't a cure all and in some cases drives the budget UP.
Meanwhile you could do 90 minutes of Castlevania level animation for less than 15 million. CGI is just the wrong medium for Horror.
Carson Watson
Animated parts of Creepshow 2
Cameron Ross
>I feel like a successful animated horror movie should play up the uncanny valley and surreal horror aspects of it.
Something like this?
Landon Martinez
Always wanted a hard R animated horror movie. Wish they made the original Cool World.
Luis Ramirez
Horror is dead because people go in waiting for the scare. Animation is locked in for kids since Disney is all people think of. Put that together on top of a large gathering ban and it a recipe for disaster.
Warning too spooky
Daniel Sanders
if its marketed properly
James Young
Im posting this here because its a comment about horror and i was writing it for the barney thread before it got nuked
>tits and gore dont make horror films good, but they make mediocre ones a lot more fun.
Theres a reason why jason movies are still fondly remembered and still getting action figures and vidya 30+ years later while your shitty PG-13 horror films like the bye bye man get forgotten about half a year later
>Us and Get Out are just absolutely shitty horror films with plots that make absolutely no sense.
Of course not, because the only "plot" these movies are supposed to have is to show the evils of white people and show how "oppressed" blacks are in an age where they treated better more then white or any other race in media and saying any disparaging remarks about them gets you cancelled.
God i hope someone shoots jordan peele
Noah Ward
I doubt it. As many have already said animation will always be mostly tied to just being for little kids. Aside from a self funded passion project I can't see any
executive greenlighting one at least without it's target audience being kids. Happy to be proven wrong though. What I would really like to see is an animated anthology horror series something along the lines of Twilight Zone. Where each episode covers it's own unique story. Could be like Love Death and Robots each episode has its own unique art style.
Evan Reyes
So it would be a horror movie for little kids? Probably not
Asher Roberts
You know, if you play that in reverse, it's a skeleton's worst nightmare.
Kevin Thompson
no
dumbass parents would take their kids and raise a fuss online
Chase Howard
This.
Lincoln Cruz
There is a certain degree of horrific that even someone who knows what they’re getting into will probably feel disturbed, so there’s always that option, but I get the feeling the typical viewer doesn’t want to watch “Where the Dead Go to Die” or “A Serbian Film”
John Hughes
Hol' up user! So are you saying that there is one of those inside in all of us?
Aiden Kelly
Well, horror doesn't work in live-action at all.
Julian Moore
>God i hope someone shoots jordan peele
My heart skips a bit every time I remember this hack is behind the new Candyman movie.
Adam King
Like La Casa Lobos? (The Wolf House)
Evan Martinez
someone uploaded the whole movie onto youtube if you are interested in seeing what stop motion horror imagery could look like