Zach Cregger's smash-hit horror-mystery Weapons is the latest entry in what some are referring to as the modern Golden Age of Horror, and there are several key factors that have contributed to the horror genre's explosion of influence in present-day cinema. Horror has been a mainstay in film since the medium's inception, but it's possible that its status as a storytelling medium has never been higher.

The original Golden Age of Horror began in the silent film days, with the advent of classics like F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu , which Robert Eggers just recently revisited . Horror's popularity really erupted in the 1930s and 1940s with the emergence of the Universal Monsters, and the many sequels and spinoffs that they inspired.

Some would argue that a second Golden Age of Horror beg

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