I started thinking about what all of my favorite horror movies have in common. Movies such as: Hereditary, Babadook, Lake Mungo, The Witch and the Insidious franchise (most of it). They are all not just great horror movies, they are very family centric and more intellectual you might say. They are not Hostel, the last slasher I tried to watch and didn't survive even half of the movie. They are not even Saw, which tried to be intellectual at first, but then lost all common sense when it lost James Wan.
I think the genre changed and developed with the times. Now in times of high divorce rates, horror movies explore not just the supernatural, but how it affects families and dysfunctional families. How external factors only emphasis the problems that are already there. No longer teenagers or young adults being slaughtered, but families breaking into pieces. It's not like teenagers suddenly became less problematic, but families in the modern world are much less stable. It's not like slashers aren't being made, but they don't make the same amount of money or get the same respect in my opinion. What do you think? Do you sense some shift in the genre?
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