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Originally Posted by Ice Pik
Yeah I know. I still wonder why I watch horror films because nothing really sticks out anymore. I just now go wow that horror film had a good plot....or that was a good movie, no longer that scared the hell out of me.
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I have the same symptoms. I watch them infrequently now, but I keep up watching twilight zone episodes to keep my hunger satiated. I feel like I've watched most of the horror films I'll need, so I no longer trust the content out there. Before I felt this way, it was at least two a day. That ran out quickly though.
On our shared symptoms, I'm pretty sure we're just getting acclimated to the tropes of horror. It's not that we can't get scared, we just know what's coming. Modern horror either relies on jump scares or "body as a temple" work to scare us, and that's hardly any fun anymore. That's why we lean toward character-driven plots that project importance in our daily lives.