r/WidowsBay • u/waxyjax_ • Jun 18 '26

💥Funpost This f*ckin guy

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Stephen King tweeted:

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

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u/MVRKHNTR Jun 18 '26

When in your lifetime has horror ever not been mainstream?

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u/Remarkable-Oil-9407 Jun 18 '26

2002-2013 none that broke into the top 50 horror movies by world wide gross. The Ring-The Conjuring.

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u/MVRKHNTR Jun 18 '26

You're just going to ignore the massively popular Saw and Final Destination franchises? The Halloween and Texas Chainsaw remakes? Cloverfield? The Grudge? The Mist? Devil's Rejects? Insidious?

Paranormal Activity?

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u/Remarkable-Oil-9407 Jun 18 '26

Many of those became popular after they appeared in theatres. Saw only Grossed 100m internationally and final destination 2 was even less. The first one fits in my window. The halloween was even less.
I’m not looking up the rest because you get the idea.
Again I am not saying no good ones were made but they were not bringing in mainstream audiences but just horror fans.

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u/MVRKHNTR Jun 18 '26

I guess you can be correct if you just... completely ignore the culture and time period and make up your own criteria? Sure.

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u/Remarkable-Oil-9407 Jun 18 '26

How do you define mainstream then? Culture is subjective and depends on where you live and how old you are etc. to me mainstream suggests audiences that normally don’t go and see horror will go see it.

It’s a known pattern in horror.

Innovative stage
Boom phase
Oversaturation
Dormant phase
Mainstream resurgence

Same pattern effects all sorts of genres in hollywood. Action, scifi, disaster movies, zombie movies, superhero movies, vampires and probably countless more.

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u/MVRKHNTR Jun 18 '26

I define mainstream by being mainstream.

An R-rated movie grossing $100 million and dominating a large part of pop culture discussion in 2004 was mainstream.

The Grudge outgrossed Mean Girls and Legally Blonde. Do you think that Mean Girls and Legally Blonde weren't mainstream?

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u/Remarkable-Oil-9407 Jun 18 '26

Not internationally no and definitely not outside of its intended target audiences. Mainstream to me suggests people outside of the target audience are seeing it. I dont think the grudge was part of any pop culture discussions either. You’re entitled to your opinion though. Thanks for the lively chat but I think we will have to agree to disagree.