Hollywood has many genres to choose from to make a movie but one genre dominates around October: horror.

The horror genre has been a fixture of films since the days of Bela Lugosi as Dracula to Freddy Kreuger tormenting Elm Street.

The horror movie is a tradition for people to watch around Halloween like they do at Christmas with “Elf” or “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

Channels such as AMC and TBS show movies around Halloween non-stop giving people the ability to see classics such as “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween.”

I love horror films, but I have noticed that many don’t come out around Halloween but rather early in the year or in the summer. Films such as “Don’t Breathe” and “The Conjuring 2” — both horror movies that made money — came out in the summer not in the fall.

Hollywood needs to take advantage of Halloween and the idea that people want to be scared around the holiday.

Horror movies can make money, and if you release the movie around the holiday that helped create these movies, then they could make money. The advantage is there, and as an avid watcher of horror movies, I think this would be a great way to pull in more consumers and make more money off the movies.

Horror movies are easy to make with some being made for dirt cheap and releasing it near the holiday that helped create it could bring in large profit.

Halloween and horror movies are both staples and the idea of not releasing horror movies on that holiday is ludicrous and should be taken advantage of. People love Halloween, and they will go to the theaters to see horror movies, so meet the two together and Hollywood could hit a gold mine.