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Horror Movies: Genres
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Two main problems pushed horror backward during this period: firstly, the horror genre wore itself out with the proliferation of nonstop slasher and gore films in the eighties. Secondly, the adolescent audience which feasted on the blood and morbidity of the previous decade grew up, and the replacement audience for films of an imaginative nature were being captured instead by the explosion of science-fiction and fantasy, courtesy of the special effects possibilities with computer-generated imagery. [12]
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Additionally, Hollywood.com conducted a search of the highest grossing films that bridged the horror and comedy genres. The results revealed that these comedic scary films, including Ghostbusters and the 1975 classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, often earned more than traditional horror movies. Below are the top six films in this hybrid category:
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The $9 billion dollar horror entertainment industry ranks among the top entertainment categories in film, television, books, video games and associated merchandise. Fangoria Entertainment has served as the genre's leading authority for over 25 years, with the ubiquitous Fangoria Magazine selling in leading bookstores, video retailers, and on military bases throughout the world.
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