Thoughts on Modern vs 80's Horror

Note: All thoughts are my own personal opinion, and everyone is entitled to theirs. If you want to have a discussion, let's do so as grown adults and be respectful. Not everyone will share my opinion and that's 100% okay.

Having been born at the end of the 70's and growing up through the 80's and 90's, I can safely say that modern horror isn't as good as it was when I was a kid.
I grew up in the age of Michael Myers, Freddy Kruger, and Jason Voorhees.
I later was introduced to Hell Priest (Pinhead), Chucky, and the Xenomorph.

I grew up in a world of practical effects. Puppetry and animatronics.
This was my world of horror.
Where makeup could give the illusion of a withered woman who was actually a stunning beauty when removed. 
A world where prosthetics could turn a man into a woman and vice versa.
A world where I could believe that a man was walking holding his innards from spilling onto the floor.

Now we reside in a world where cgi can't make me believe that The Thing is stalking the halls.
Where actors don't react convincingly to the monster that's supposed to be in front of them and make us believe it's not a tennis ball on a stick.

But, lately, the movies are getting better.
Evil Dead Rise gave us some of the best cgi I've seen in a long time. Because they mixed it with practical effects.
Now we're starting to see the best in horror. 

Now I have a world where I can laugh at how silly, yet brilliant. it is to watch Whinny the Pooh on a killing rampage.
Where I can see Freddy Fazbear walk across my screen as a real thing and not a video game.
Where I can see a new, fresh take on Nosferatu and scream it holds up to the original from the age of Silent Films.

Horror is starting to take a turn for the better, slowly but surely.
While some horror movies and series are less to be desired, some creators are taking flight with the new and old technologies and giving us something new and fresh.

I can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for those of us who love horror.
I can't wait to see new jump scares, new slow burns, new monsters to make me keep my lights on at night.

If there is one thing I could say to the creators of horror, it would be this;
"Take a page from the directors of the 80's. Watch their films. Talk to the fans. Learn what made us love their movies. What scared us. What made us scream or hide our faces. It's not the blood or the gore. You can see that in almost any film. It's the build up. The teasing. The reveal. The suspense of what comes next. Give us a monster we can sympathize with but hate at the same time. This is what we want. This is what worked for us."