The Blair Witch Project, 20 Years Later: Why This Horror Classic Would Not Work Today

There are few genres so centered around individual movie releases as horror. The popularity of the different horror subgenres--whether zombies, slashers, possession films, killer dolls, or haunted houses--are almost always created by the huge success of a single film. From Night of the Living Dead and Halloween to The Exorcist and Scream, these genre classics inspired dozens and dozens of imitators over the following years, before their popularity waned and something else took their place.Someti