5. ROBOTS

Why give in to the seduction of an eternal life of bloodlust and endless night, when you could just hop in a big fuckin’ robot and kick giant monster ass? The two Transformers movies have shown that we have the effects to make great looking robot films, and the first Transformers movie showed us that some of those films can have alright stories. Even Steven Spielberg himself has graced the script for Robopocalypse with his midas touch. With a litle luck, and millions of dollars worth of property damage, the Voltron movie may raise the giant, giant bar even further.

[Voltron image via JoBlo]

4. THE APOCALYPSE

All things must eventually come to an end. Vampires. Fads. And eventually, the world. But if it’s anything likeThe Book of Eli, or the crazy things that volunteers go through on the Discovery Channels’ post-apocalyptic simulation, The Colony, the end will at least be entertaining as hell to watch. Director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg are reportedly joining the bandwagon as well, with plans for their comedy, The World’s End. Let’s hope apocalypse-fever goes epidemic.

3. MYTHS AND LEGENDS

Tales of gods and warriors aren’t just for box office blockbusters like Clash of the Titans anymore (and I use the term “blockbuster” loosely in this instance). Ancient lore has proven adaptable to family movies, likePercy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, as well as the uber-violent, sexed-up realm of HBO, with Spartacus: Blood and Sand (whose prequel series is currently in production). Top it off with the God of Thunder himself in next year’s Thor, and you have a genre of heroes whose “immortality” comes from glory and legacy, not from that one time your boyfriend tried to eat you.

2. SUPERHEROES

Speaking of Thor, the caped crowd is rapidly cementing its hold over American cinema. Marvel Studios has a powerhouse slate lined up, including Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers. Meanwhile, DC just happens to have one of the greatest superhero films of all time (The Dark Knight) under its belt, with aGreen Lantern and Superman flick in the pipeline. And while Heroes definitely fizzled out, TV execs are trying at the genre again with No Ordinary Family. Great power and great reponsibility don’t always come with great melanin deficiency.

1. ZOMBIES

There was a time when monsters were monsters, when horror and peril couldn’t be glittered up and repackaged as romance. You could laugh, or you could cry, but the horde will always advance. And advance it has, with action-comedy Zombieland, the legendary George Romero’s Survival of the Dead, and now, with the upcoming AMC television adaptation of The Walking Dead. The zombie genre has spread its reach across every medium, from literature to video games, and this long awaited breach into television may be the final nail in the coffin that solidifies zombies as a mainstay of mainstream entertainment.

Now before the Twi-hard’s tear me apart, let me say there’s nothing wrong with the vampire craze (despite my bitter, biased tone implying otherwise). If anything, it’s opened audiences up to exploring new genres they might never have before, and I’m thankful for that. Because as long as they’re ogling cardboard cutouts of Edward Cullen, they can’t make fun of me for stockpiling ammo for the zombie uprising.

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