Dave Oates
Contributor
Dave Oates is originally from New Jersey and now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Anne, and their crazy Beagle, Molly. He works as an Audio Technician in television production for professional and college sports. A lifelong fan of movies, television, and comic books, Dave is also a writer who has written plays and movie screenplays. He enjoys writing about all three.
Dave Oates
The surge in positive sentiments in the early 1990s when the Cold War ended and the internet was launched find few parallels today. Americans' edgy, less optimistic mood is driving them toward darker cinematic genres and themes in the 2020s, many of them reflected most prominently in the horror genre.