Origin Stories: The Good, the Bad, and the Horrible 

Origin stories can make or break a franchise. Granted, the horror genre is prone to introducing the back story of a character during the first film, but even that can prove fatal. Leading off with the origin stories for The Ring and Brightburn may have resonated, but did that work for other such horror films? Maybe the dreaded prequel is worse, such as The Thing (2011) and the hideously awful Prometheus.
Regardless, your friends in horror, The Last Knock, will explore what films work, what films don’t, and why. 
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And when it comes to origin stories, we’ll also take a look at fare on the fringe, including Hannibal Rising and Hitchock’s Rebecca.
Most important, we’ll unveil the secret as to why some of these films thrive and what screenwriters and directors can learn from them.
So come traipse through a multitude of horror cinema’s best and worst origin stories and enjoy!
And if you don’t like it, you can always reboot…
 
 

 
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