I would say so, yes! When was the last book you’ve seen Stephen King do that was horror? He hasn’t done a horror novel in a long time. He’s been concentrating on other genres like science fiction, fantasy, mystery, etc. You don’t see other book authors writing horror anymore either. Dean Koontz has also been staying away from the genre a lot. Well, Stephanie Meyer released the “Twilight” series in books, but I don’t consider them horror, in my opinion.

As for the movie industry, the genre is pretty much dead there too. Most so called horror films these days are nothing but blood, gore, and naked women. Plus, most horror films of today’s are mostly popcorn action flicks anyway.

The horror genre was really big back in the 1930’s to the early 90’s, but the genre seemed to have slowly vanished in the 2000’s years. I’m a real big fan of horror. Always have been. Well, the “Saw” series sort of made horror a comeback, but I never liked the “Saw” series though, I only enjoyed the first one, not the sequels.

However, there were a few new horror films that came out that I thought was actual “horror”. Films like, “The Strangers”, “Quarantine”, and “Insidious”. I thought those three films were absolutely amazing and those films were scary as hell. I also love, “The Paranormal Activity” franchise. So good horror does come out once in a while.

I just watched the original, “I Spit On Your Grave” (the 1978) version on Netflix tonight and kept thinking to myself, this is how today’s horror films should be!

Freddy, Jason, Chucky, Hellbound, Michael Myers, all came and gone already. Now the industry is concentrating on reboots for all those characters. It would be nice if the horror genre made a comeback in a huge way. It tries to make a comeback but it fails in the box office. Seems that no one is interested in horror anymore. I just love the genre. Why do I love the genre so much? I just love the creativity of the writing. The unpredictability of the storytelling. The characters, and the intelligent writing. I just love the feeling of being dark and scary. Horror helps me become more confident in life and makes me a much stronger person. It helps makes me not get scared of anything. I’ve been reading horror novels and watching horror movies my whole life, so I’m used to the gross outs and scares.

If I was to ever become a book author myself, the horror genre is probably what I would mostly write. When I was a kid in school, all I would mostly write is short horror stories. I would write, blood, guts, and the nastiest murders you can think of. I would love to get back into horror fiction writing, but I would need to improve my writing skills and go to school for it, and all.

Horror fiction is awesome. The only time people would get interested in horror again is, if another “Paranormal Activity” or another “Saw” movie comes out, but everyone would ignore everything else. Sad really.

Kev