Oh the Horror! 10 Cloverfield Lane, It Follows and The Resurgence of Horror Film

Is horror finally making a comeback?

Horror film has always had a bit of a spotty record. Known more for cheap slasher flicks that appeal to a narrow but aggressively devoted audience, the genre has struggled to produce outright masterpieces. Earlier eras saw ebbs and flows, giving us the consistently brilliant John Carpenter and the creative but uneven Wes Craven, as well as artists who seemed to do their best work in the boundaries where horror overlapped into science fiction or fantasy (Ja...