This is something new, distinguishing us from the message board at the British Horror Films website where all post-2000 movies were lumped together. It's only fair to have a separate subforum for each decade, especially as we're drawing to the close of the 2010s. I think they've been markedly different to the 'noughties', BHF-wise - the process of making a horror film and getting it seen has mutated beyond belief in the past ten years, and we've seen the 'rise' (?) of micro-auteurs like Andrew Jones and Rebecca Matthews, Joe Wheeler and MJ Dixon. Even the nature of film criticism has changed, i.e. everyone's a critic...
So, how's it been for you? And how do you think the British Horror output of the 2010s has differed from that of the 2000s, and what have been the prevailing trends of the last decade of the British horror movie?
Must admit, I've been surprised that there haven't been more overtly political films. Maybe they'll begin to arrive in the early part of the twenties.
A new generation has been unfortunately educated to make films that must take some effort but the results are lack lustre. Most British films before 2000 had some value whether curiosity, telling, technique, an accompanying history to the effort....now, since 2010, bland story-telling, weak dialogue, unadventurous technique and no idea as to where the film has come from or what it took to make it. We should make ourselves the object of hate by inviting tales of behind the scene twattery but even that is difficult to keep up with. In the Noughties there could be over sixty horrors a year. I have no longer been keeping track driven to the old. If they in their product cannot be arsed then neither can I. So many of the films really do seem pointless and it is laziness even when producing a feature length film which should state the opposite of laziness. The making is there but the ideas are not, the talent is not, the striving to achieve something of quality it not. Just as 1956 to 1976 ran as a British horror Golden Age, admittedly, fewer as we reached 1976, in 2002 I hoped for a twenty year run of renewed British horror, but digital laziness as pissed the product out into an incredibly wide arc. And now we have one bad generation editing the next into worse practices set as the new miserable tenets of the genre.