Timmy Williams: And it burned itself out pretty quickly. That did not start the new millennium on the right foot. So it’s like, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, which is OK - but this trend of movies of hot, young kids getting picked off one by one, very glossy, cleanly lit, studio horror movies. But I’d say Scream, which is a great movie, started a trend of just putting hot faces on covers. There are obvious exceptions, like The Blair Witch Project, which is an exceptional, miraculously good movie. Zach Cregger: Timmy, tell me what you think about this: To me, ’90s horror was not great. But has anything come close? What movies will we still talk about in 10 years? Zach, I saw your Letterboxd list of inspirations for Barbarian, and it was unsurprisingly filled with hard-to-dethrone classics. Matt Patches: To talk about the next 10 years of horror, I think we need to talk about the last few years of horror. To celebrate Polygon’s 10th anniversary, we’re spending a week looking 10 years into the future, bringing in experts to predict what games and entertainment will be like in another decade.
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