Fright nights Hollywood may be consistently spooked by the dip in movie attendance, but the horror genre has become a big bag of candy, especially around Halloween.
If the summer belongs to the big blockbuster action movies and December is for Oscar-worthy films, then October - and, increasingly, much of fall - is for ghouls and maniacs and things that go "bump" at the box office. Last weekend, "The Grudge 2" scared up $22 million, enough to make it the top movie, and earlier this month "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" carved up $18 million in its opening weekend.
