What else do Gen-Z audiences want from the cinema? Judging by the discourse on social media, teenage and twentysomething viewers want a film they can discuss and dissect. Take, for example, The Drama, which is reported to have cost $28m (£21m) and raked in about $100m (£75m) more than that. It’s a comedy rather than a horror film, and it has two popular stars – Zendaya and Robert Pattinson – but, like Obsession, it stretches a romantic relationship issue to an uncomfortable extreme. It feels as if it’s actually about something. Audiences can debate the relative morality of the characters, just as they can debate their own relationship issues online. In the case of Backrooms, they can debate what exactly is going on. Neither Masters of the Universe nor The Mandalorian and Grogu leaves quite as much scope for such post-film analysis.
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