Horror’s broadening and deepening is also the result of Shudder itself. “It allowed people to rediscover horror as something more than slasher.” “ Get Out was the seminal moment,” he says. It’s a period Engler says began in 2017 with Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning smash hit Get Out, and one that’s brought a new generation of viewers into the horror fray. The current horror epoch is a little less defined, a period that encompasses everything from Mike Flanagan’s creepy series for Netflix to A24’s so-called elevated horror to Blumhouse’s box-office hits. There’s the “literary horror of The Exorcist and The Omen” in the 1970s “the cheap-and-cheerful slasher period” in the ’80s (think A Nightmare on Elm Street) “the ’90s meta-horror” ( Scream). Horror’s shape has always been a slippery thing, something that, Engler notes, has had many eras. Engler is the general manager of Shudder, a streaming service that is focused on the genre and has helped mold the future of scary movies in the process. Craig Engler says these are boom times for horror.
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