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Originally Posted by LuvablePsycho
Personally I think it's because it's very hard to come up with stories to scare people. Most people really aren't afraid of things like the undead or monsters because deep down we all know that they don't exist, and for every GOOD horror movie that manages to succeed in scaring people there's like 10 or 50 bad ones that are all either copycats of a good one or just really bad movies with no effort put into them (many border on being softcore pornos).
So yeah, I think it's just hard to scare people. Especially nowadays with people being as cynical and jaded about violence as they are. Also I feel like the people who actually are fans of the horror genre aren't really afraid of it either but they enjoy it for some other reason like myself for example.
And honestly things that go on in the real world like war, violent crime, and natural disasters are a helluvalot more scary than what you see on TV or read in books.
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I think even if we don't know the monster doesn't exist. You are still supposed to be enough in the movie to think if this was real. If the monster was in the room with you. Now. That's scary. Like Ridley Scott said about the Alien, I going to make you believe this is real. Or something like that. As we get older it's more difficult than when we were young. But like I posted or someone else in that what do you do to enjoy horror movies topic. I think it's important to get surround sound if possible, watch at night in the dark, and have a light drink or two. Not to get drunk but to depress your normal senses. After movies like Sinister and It Follows, I was paranoid as hell.
I do think nudity was something a lot of early or at least horror movies I grew up watching played around with. But it was teasing or far more tasteful than what you can stumble across on the Internet. As back then, if you wanted to see nudity you had to be brave and venture into seedy places with even worse people to get VHS tapes or magazines. That glimpse of nudity in Halloween or Friday the 13th was a big deal to a kid.