Biography best 2015 horror

It was an interesting year for horror. For a long time, studio-released films and blatant nostalgia plays had been dominating the genre — with movies like The Conjuring, Mama and the Insidious franchise, not to mention a whole host of other remakes and sequels, coming out like a steady drumbeat.

Biography best 2015 horror

But this year, the landscape was dominated by more independent, idiosyncratic films: Oddball festival favorites, loopy genre-crossovers, and auteur passion projects. Even M. Night Shyamalan returned to the genre, with one of his smallest, strangest, most playful movies in years – and won back some of the critical acclaim that had eluded him for some years.

That's not to say that there still weren't plenty of remakes and sequels.

This was the year, after all, that someone finally released a Poltergeist reboot — and did just well enough that we can probably expect another one. The good folks at Blumhouse (Paranormal Acti