horror movies suck now. //imo I'm no real critic

Maybe i'm not looking in the right places but lately horror movies have suckeddd! 'Heart Eyes' was just horrible, worst one yet. The whole trope was cheaply executed, lacked imagination, abd was just another jason remake tryhard with some holiday spirit... then for the twist to be the killer is a throuple with a kink for murder? ugh ok. It just felt so shallow. 

Horror, to me, is about the irrational fear of. Like, realistically, could you be backpacking in europe and think you were about to bang some hot girls only to end up in a basement where rich guys pay to torture? No, but hostel capitalizes on the fear of. The fear of what? Maybe kidnapping, maybe trafficking, maybe the fear of strange places, being drugged, etc. And it does it in explicit detail. The issue I'm having with Heart Eyes, and tarot, and every other shitty-123-scare movie that's coming is not only the lack of the fear of factor but also the lack of detail. This killer is pushed in front of you, with no real story or purpose (just oOooOh scaAry kilLeRR), then you're dumped dead center of the plot where now MC has to survive.

What happened to ambience? Build-up? Lore? Even the score's suck nowadays. The music is just ass. 

And beyond even that, the scenes where chases are happening or murders occur are so cheap, quick, and clean. It's unsatisfying. Don't just slash them off camera with some kind of red spurt across the killer, no! What happened to the carnal, nearly sexual tension, between the killer and their victim. The moment where they realize something horrible is going to happen. Not even just the gore, but the expressions on their faces, the communication with their eyes, the pause in their breath, these little details matter!  Like in "A classic horror story" when it dawns on the MC that it's been a movie set all along, you as the viewer feel this sense of almost hopelessness, this shock. "How could this happen? What did I not see before?" The moment where you, the viewer, also fall victim to the grand plan. that moment just before giving up no longer exists. It's almost annoying how rather than exploring how each character might fight, fly, or freeze, everyone is suddenly an MMA fighter when a 6'10 man with a jagged knife or gun is chasing them. 

On that note: I am tired of happy endings. The point of horror movies is to leave scared, horrified, disgusted, etc. I don't want relief. I want the irrational fear that no one escaped and i could be next. Not everyone escapes and when you execute these far-fetched ideas already (see: gretel and hansel) you could at least do the grace of making it so far-fetched that even conceptualizing escape is difficult, c'mon. I hate this idea that you walk away from these things (see happy death day) just needing some therapy and gaslighting, no. 

A movie that did this well is Hostel, the first one, where a young girl who had half her face burned off (and it was shown in gruesome detail) saw her own reflection after escape and killed herself. Which is exactly what I would have done! That kind of permanent scarring and trauma is hard to live with! but somehow everyone is fine after a year of therapy??? I don't think so.

This is not to say that clean, sanitized, happy-ending horror has no place because it does, but lately thats been every horror flick and it's so annoying. I want to be scared, not satisfied.