The horror genre is experiencing a renaissance. Following the awkwardly named “elevated horror” trend that followed 2018’s HEREDITARY, the distinction between mainstream horror and its more elevated cousin began to blur. Now the mainstream and the sublime have become one and the same, with last year’s WEAPONS winning an Oscar and this year’s OBSESSION becoming the highest-grossing film of all time with a $1 million budget. But what is the current horror it seems
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