Horror movies have become lazy, and it makes me mad. How did they go from the greats like “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th” to awful films like “The Visit” and remakes of films like “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”?

These films rely too much on gore and jump-scares. The films think that if they show a lot of blood and violence that it makes the movie a horror film. The truly best horror films try not to overuse blood and violence.

Recent films like “The Conjuring” and “The Babadook” don’t use blood and gore, and they are some of my favorite horror films ever.

The other main sin that ruin horror films is the overuse of jumpscares. This is when something runs and jumps at the camera after a long amount of silence and filmmakers think that if they use this a lot in a film that it will make the film better.

Again, this doesn’t help either because the overuse becomes annoying and monotonous and takes away from the film.

These points help show that if this keeps happening that horror films will cease being scary and good. This makes me upset because horror movies are a favorite genre of film for me, and I hate that they have become lackluster and lazy.