If you happen to read the mind-numbing drivel that is Entertainment Weekly, you'll have noticed an awesome article in the July 31, 2009 issue titled “Horror Films... and the Women Who Love Them!” by Christine Spines. The article mainly discusses how women are a driving force behind the success of a horror movie at the box office.
Check out this neat excerpt from the article...
“I don’t think there was anyone who expected that women would gravitate toward a movie called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” says Chainsaw producer Brad Fuller of the 2003 remake, which became a female-driven $81 million hit. “For us, the issue now is that it’s harder for us to get young men into the theater than women who are, like, 35 years old at horror movies and they’re like, ‘Oh, our husbands are with the kids and we all came out together,’” says Clint Culpepper, the president of Screen Gems, which is releasing a remake of the 1987 slasher film The Stepfather in October. “Men stop seeing horror at a certain age, but women continue to go on.”
