Lessons Not Learned - The Horror Hiatus of the 1930s

It's long past overdue, but I think now's the time for another instalment in my Zero Punctuation inspired looks at notable disasters, mess ups, and embarrassments from the history of motion pictures, to see what could have been learned from these... and what decidedly wasn't.  This time, it's not a film itself we're looking at, it's something that happened to almost an entire genre.  Over the years, the horror film has had its ups and downs, including some dry spells; I know for a fact that a few fans in particular do not look at the Nineties terribly kindly at all, bar perhaps Scream.  I don't think that's fair; for a start there were at least horror films being made then, unlike the time we're going to discuss, when after defining what a monster movie was, Hollywood straight up gave up on them for a while..

This is the story of how the above film was the triumphant return for the whole genre!