[neverending]

You make a lot of great points, but I want to touch on just one of them. I believe that a large per centage of younger horror fans these days DO just watch horror films for the vicarious thrills they get from seeing violence on screen. They measure the merit of a horror film on how good "the kills" are, how much explicit gore there is, and how many "jumps." there are.

Characters? They barely know what the word means, let alone being able to emphasize with them. It's all about body count, action sequences, and predictable plots. After all, when you're busy texting on your iphone, it takes something extreme to get your attention. This is why they dismiss horror films older than 20 years as "boring" and "slow."