Thanks to everyone who took part in our month-long salute to horror of the Gen X era. We will be back next year with an even bigger #31daysofgenxhorror.
When it comes to scary movies, the Gen X era is as important as the Universal horror movies of the 1930s. The biggest names in horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Wolfman, and The Mummy were all introduced to the mainstream audience on a grand scale via those classic movies from Universal.
They stayed the dominant stars of horror until the Gen X era came around and new folks joined the group. Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, and Freddie Kruger are A-listers when it comes to movie monsters. The era also produced Pinhead, Chucky, and Candyman.
The creatures of the thirties lived on in the monster mashup movies of the forties and remade in the fifties and sixties with a British twist in the Hammer horror films. Our generation’s monsters were in sequels well into the nineties and early 2000s. They also rose again in remakes and reboots.
The classic monsters never really went away, as movies are still being made about them and neither will the ones of our generation. The makeup and special effects will just keep getting better. Nothing will be able to kill them off, not silver bullets or a stake in the heart!
