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I think it's a matter of taste and what you're used to. I'll admit that I'm not a huge fan of modern horror and much of what many people love in modern horror, I don't get and vice versa. For example, I once watched SAW, which is considered by a lot of people today to be scary...I was bored with it. Whereas at university, I once was able to attend a lecture where they were screening Nosferatu and you could hear some of the students laughing, which annoyed me.
I think the environment's different today and it changed largely with the slasher boom and the cannibal films. These were films where gore was suddenly pushed to the forefront and a lot of horror these days seems very gore-focused, which isn't my thing.
I'm someone who's more into atmosphere, so films like Suspiria, The Beyond, Don't Look Now or Night Of The Living Dead (all different but each very atmospheric) are what I prefer
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