Weekend July 148 2020

Weekend July 19, 2020

Horror films got their start during the Great Depression with  Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolf Man

The idea of being frightened in the theater resonated with the negative mood of the time.

Gangster films were also popular giving James Cagney's career a big boost in Public Enemy

The cycle repeated in  1973-4 with Exorcist and Godfather I & II

Now right on time for the start of what should be our next bear market we have

Low Budget Horror Thriving Screen Shot 2020-07-19 at 11.51.33 AM

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/why-low-budget-horror-thriving-summer/614344/

A Quiet Place II will be released this fall.

Eastwood's last big film was about an 88 year old Drug Mule, hence the title, The Mule

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