Slow Paced Horror?

[🪦 JasonV123 ●]

"Slow paced", story driven, character developing, suspense horror has obviously not done a good job at surviving the era of instant gratification. Movies like the SAW series and RZ's Halloween have lost touch with what makes a horror movies scary. We're in this rut of show all, gross out, gore fests that's not hard to watch because it's scary, it's hard to watch because it's stupid. DON'T GET ME WRONG I do like gorey Zombie movies and the occasional kill scene of some slasher flick but directors don't have any class when it comes to gore anymore. Recently almost every kill is seen on camera and choreographed to lord know what end, and all of this work goes into "how this character is going to die". Then I watch the movie and they don't develop the character... I could really care less what happens to that character. Gore is just seen so overused now I'm completely desensitized to it. More recent movies I've seen that I feel are the exception to this rule... Let the Right One In, Pontypool, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later. Nothing else really springs to mind and I know "28 days" is already 8 years old but I honestly don't think there are that many movies like this. Just Cliffs Notes version remake/imagining movies that just twice the pace and half the story. Hitting on the famous scenes and leaving you with nothing but empty pockets and a feeling of "Why do I even go to the movies anymore".