Horror has not been a very well respected genre for quite sometime. Some thought this was gonna change with the birth of so called "elevated horror films" in the 2010s, but is this kind of horror film actually new? And what is the actual point of categorizing films into genres in the first place?

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0:00 Content Warning
0:06 Intro
0:39 What Does Elevated Horror Even Mean??
2:32 Why Is the Term Being Used Now?
4:50 Rebranding Horror
7:56 The Purpose of a Genre
11:20 Consider, "The Golden Age of Horror"
13:36 Final Thoughts
15:07 End Credits

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