The huge success of "IT" on a smaller budget shows that the same could be done with the UNIVERSAL MONSTERS. Instead they chose to give us another big budget generic action franchise.

The Universal Monsters are as iconic as IT, if not more so in the horror genre. Yet Universal felt the need to repeat the previous Mummy franchise by trying to make it action focused, rather than horror. But where some of the previous films at least had some heart and charm to it, and felt more like an Indiana Jones adventure, this new reboot is just a generic, poorly written, and soulless (pun intended) action romp that cost the studio hundreds of millions to produce. IT was budgeted at a modest $35M, and I feel around this number would have sufficed to bring these horror icons to life. Not as boring action films, but as prestigious horror movies, as they should be. If I were Universal Studios, I would scrap the "Dark Universe" and start over, but maybe keep some of the star studded cast they've already got that haven't appeared yet.

Thoughts?

Submitted September 10, 2017 at 10:37AM by UnrealLuigi http://ift.tt/2fbR3lz