Old scary movies aren't scary

House isn't scary at all, though it is scary that the director thought Hugh Laurie was more American than most Americans.

You're entitled to your opinion. I can accept you not being able to enjoy a movie that many people can (still) enjoy. Don't expect me to be happy about it, though.

Old not scary movies are also not scary → old not scary movies are bad. So are new scary and new not scary movies. Hence, movies are bad.

Ding dong. You're dead.

Even has a great subtitle

It’s a failure of imagination on your part in some cases. In others the studio produced a confusing mess that might be scary if anyone could understand it.

Hard disagree about horror films and 'scary movies' needing to be 'scary'. That's an extremely subjective measure that just starts useless arguments.

Just like any other film, what it actually needs is good writing, good acting, and good cinematography, parts which are more concrete than whether something's scary. The horror part is essentially just an aesthetic which a movie can sit within.

Also, quite often the view that 'scary movies should be scary' just leads to directors creating films that are hard to watch, period - full of vapid jumpscares, scenes made to just gross out the audience, and often just torture fetish content. It's a terrible metric to aspire to that generally degrades the entire genre imo.

The subject in question is George Wendt's 1985 classic vietnam war flashback horror film. I can only assume.

I have no idea what this meme is trying to convey

Do people think what induces fear is the same for everyone, we all have different triggers, what's scary for one person can be mundane for another, it's pointless to judge a movie by this one arbitrary factor, for me a horror movie is good or bad based on a lot more than just this one factor of how scary it felt

Counterpoint, Begotten is unsettling enough to be kinda scary.

But actually I like "scary movies" not because "scary" but because "Monsters, Magick, Aliens, Kaiju, and Slashers are fun." Simply gore, torture porn, or jump scares just don't do it for me, I need an element of whimsy. I'll take Leprechaun in the Hood, or Jason X, or Killer Clowns from Outer Space, or The Thing, or Godzilla Vs Biolante, or The Blob, or even Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Maximum Overdrive, before Hostel or Saw.

Old scary movies aren't scary

'Scary movies' aren't scary.

Horror is a meme of a genre.

Who out there claiming old things aren't scary?

It's also not a horror movie.

If you think about it, one scary movie but not in the "normal" way is Schindler's list.

And a scary movie is a hunting movie seen from the POV of the prey.

Oh so it's a stupid generalization

I'm sorry, I just have the kind of autism where scary movies are either cringe or hilarious.

I assumed it was this one:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hausu

I re-watched the Exorcist recently. I found it scary, but in a different way from how people try to sell it.

The head turning, the vomit, the spider walking, that was all shocking (and cool) but not scary.

What I did find scary was all the science/medicine stuff. Doctors telling the mother that Reagan is faking it, or keeping her under sedation, or subjecting her to endless invasive tests. The real horror is the mother's realization that the material world cannot save her daughter. The horror of putting Reagan's life in the hands of faith.

So I'd say that it works on several levels, where for some people, scary is "OMG, a monster face!" and for others scary is the incomprehensible.

I think an element of being scared is surprise and the unknown.

When something is done well it gets copied and becomes a cliche, then it's no longer scary. Old movies are where the cliches come from, so revising them no longer packs the surprise and unknown from when they were first released. The movies you watch today might be scary, but in a few decades when they've been mimicked a few times they will no longer hold that potency.

So, in a way, yes, older movies tend to no longer be scary. I think some of it is also learning the film making techniques. When we watch the behind the scenes of an actor in a suit, it makes the film lose some of that unknown.