The 2024 Movie Monster State of the Union

As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be a fun project to offer a kind of collaboration on the year. movie monsters-quick analysis of what is still under consideration dangerous. However, in thinking, what is considered as the 21st century an animal he started to look like a Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual and more like the aisles of my local Walmart. When the old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born, it seems that the monsters of 2024 may represent the same fear, but they have a strange appearance. Since I don’t know what to do with this information, the one submitted for your approval is io9’s 2024 monster revue.

Known

In a year that saw the former president’s re-election to office, the ongoing war in the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the return of bird flu, 2024 has had a recurring negative outlook. The feeling that we are going to two things that we tried before, more than that, and three things that are in mind so it should be paid more than before, right?

It is not a coincidence, it is the year that saw the new variety of A Quiet Place, Aliens, The Omen, Rosemary’s Son, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Godzilla, Hellboy, Salem’s Lot, The Crow, Aliens– although Witchcraftthe likes of which we haven’t heard since the first straight movie in 1995.

At this point, it seems like there is no end to the re-emergence of well-known IP, and new ones. Saw, Conjuring, Insidious, Fear Street, I Know What You Did Last Summerand Destination movies that are expected to be released next year. Don’t say anything 28 years lateranother ambitious trailer that is on its way to becoming the most watched trailer in the world.

As we enter 2025, the idea of ​​”the devil you know” will reach Universal, doubling down on past monsters, selling the company’s previous attempts at making television a reality. Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and Mother from no less than the likes of Guillermo del Toro, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Leigh Whannell, and Lee Cronin, respectively.

Today they even see the release of a new one Nosferatucomplete with an advertising campaign that hopes to make its colorful flavors a new Christmas tradition. It’s interesting, then, that moviegoers strongly reject vampires – and I emphasize this vampire, especially-the last few years and movies like Abigail, Renfield, and The Last Journey of Demeter failed to make a significant impact on culture or the box office.

Signs of Dracula and/or Nosferatu—to feed on the blood of others, to isolate oneself, yet to retain great wealth and influence over others—these are good things fully accepted by culture. Children call it “sigma.”

What is most unusual about the ongoing movement we know, is the sudden respect we have developed for the lesser version – the one known as the most dangerous. Although yesterday’s culture has become more difficult tomorrow is not new (recent winners of the Best Picture have included the stories of a fish man who fell in love with a human woman; a universe where humans replaced bacon with phalanges; and a humanistic perspective. The film’s ABC of the Week, Bad Ronald), nothing has achieved this level of tradition that focuses on gore effects. Two and a half hours A threat films more closely resemble the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis than Dario Argento. In a Violent Culture, who also compared the film as Friday the 13th or He’s crazy from the point of view of his immortal killer, he added a lot of experimentation to the simple story of the genre, emphasizing that the thin film of the contrast wall and this one from the French New Wave is only an occasional bloodbath.

Even envelope-pushing A threat franchise can be seen as an attempt at public sympathy, it should be as legitimately recognized as Art the Clown with its Harpo Marx-meets-Freddy Krueger routine. Anything too confusing would not get this audience. That’s why I’m interested in a movie that didn’t come out this year: Macon Blair’s remake. Toxic Avenger. Something about a politically motivated judge, jury, and big business financier was deemed too radioactive to release. I wonder why…

Media

Coupled with the ever-increasing popularity of the slasher film has been a very confusing way to find characters for child stars who have recently entered the mainstream. In the past year, new characters have been announced with Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Bambi, Popeye, Steamboat Willie, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, the Little Mermaid, and the Mad Hatter. Something about changing characters looking to make as much money as possible instead of bloodthirsty killers feels “right” in a way that’s both timely and inevitable – not to mention punk music. When the IP falls into public hands, isn’t that the only thing you can do to become a monster? Especially if all roads lead to 2024, the contract should be Mickey and the company sold us a bill of goods the first time.

One only needs a little YouTube dust these days to find a huge list of videos on the dark side Pokemon ideas or horror games for PlayStation 2 featuring Piglet. In these forums, a cartoon network bump lost or an unreleased episode of SpongeBob SquarePants it is said with the same respect as an unexploded nuclear weapon. When everything is online, something that isn’t – no matter how bad it might be – becomes suspicious and confusing. We would love to tell children scary stories to keep them out Woods alone, the hunters of lost journalists should be restraining each other from sharing credit card information with scumbags on the dark web.

Latest movies like I saw the TV Light understand the kind of obsessive devotion and overinvestment in children’s media can bring – kind people who used to be called “Lovecraftian,” but are now labeled with terms like “Disney Adult.” For a generation where Cthulhu has been available as a prized toy all their lives, the Grandmasters can also be Garfield and friends, all the time. Smile 2 and another film from last year to understand this, following on the heels of films like Ring and It followswhere curses spread like contagious memes that travel like viruses – and even our celebrities aren’t immune.

By the year 2024, “cosmic” horrors are a global phenomenon and even if the beliefs of their media cultists may seem silly to you, you don’t have to believe in the destructive power of their fandom as long as they do.

Modern

The past year has also seen a number of movies about monster-ifying AI and cutting-edge technology – movies like. Submission and Fearhow the machines that control our lives are called home, like vampires, just to show their dirty desires.

However, due to the fear of robots taking over our jobs, we have all lost faith in the idea of ​​technological progress. We’ve had movies about killer robots, toys, smart homes, and human assistants, but we still haven’t “come together” on how this growing technology does anything more dangerous than being okay with your own self-defined identity. to be.

As our government continues to admit that our airspace has been driven by aircraft with physics beyond human comprehension, I am reminded of Jordan Peele’s 2022. Nowhich stated that UFOs are secretly insatiable, alien animals that our zoologists have not yet identified or documented. In other words, it is easy to believe. Which brings us to…

Life Alone/Old People

Much like the AI ​​that replaced us with human beings, one of the most interesting things of the past year has been the series of horror movies that focus on – in a way – doppelgängers. Whether it is a previously unknown universe as it is Where are you?the presence of demons such as Don’t Let Go and Daddy’s Heador self-appointed representative as per A thingthe concern at the heart of these stories is not the monster, per se, but rather the other – and missing out on the good things that the monster does.

NightbitchThe latest film in which Amy Adams turns into a dog as an expression of her repressed anger, looks good. The idea of ​​losing control is very appealing lately. Just like Demi Moore is afraid of not being needed A thingreal fear is being left behind.

Speaking of which, if 2024 can be defined by one persistent boogeyman, the title should be given to the elderly in solidarity. Movies like Heretic, Room 7A, and Guest: Romulusthey show the elderly (if not really late, as Specter poor Ian Holm in Romulus) to abuse young people for many reasons, ranging from financial gain to just making sure they are still needed from the comfort of their hoofed homes.

People often fail to see the difference between mummies and zombies, but the difference between them is important. Mothers are different from zombies because a zombie is a dead thing, but somehow it is like a living thing. Mother is something that should be dead, but somehow in nature and he is still alive – just as Kharis’ heart continues to beat because of the tana leaves at Universal Mother’s hand, Mother’s grave, Mother’s Spirit, and The The Mother’s Curse.

It is the release of Nosferatu today, in Count Orlok we have a famous, aging, copyright-violating ghoul from the dawn of film who just refuses to go away. The right person for the moment, indeed.

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