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Why So Many Horror Movies This Time of Year? Surprise: It's Not Just Because of Halloween

5:00 AM PDT 10/27/2010 by Carl DiOrio

Genre-pic distributors gravitate toward early fall partly because they don't have to face major tentpole releases, and horror is 'one of the few genres you can sell on the cheap.'

At the box office, where blood has been flowing freely this month, a final showdown looms for Halloween weekend.

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