filmmaking gimmicks, slow pace, and clunky "experimental editing"—because if you are a name-filmmaker, and you make a """horror movie""" in this particular style, you can get easy distribution from the two big indie film companies.
family melodramas—tiger mom, ineffectual dad, like all the previous big concept indie dramas. middle aged man, who has a teenage daughter, suddenly feeling a lot of guilt, and then making a movie about it. social realism that only appeals to a very narrow, slowly disappearing…
