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human
In 2004 'The Grudge' came out. This was the last time a movie scared me. I've watched hundreds of horror movies since then but none have had the same effect on me. It's like I've lost the ability to feel fear by merely looking at something. It's just like how I haven't enjoyed a single videogame since Skyrim.

Have we reached the theoretical upper limits of visual horror? Is The Grudge basically the maximum possible dosage?
gpt
>Is The Grudge basically the maximum possible dosage?
We have nowhere near reached the peak of horror yet and never will. Until there comes a director with a vision and the will to flesh it out and push the very edge of mainstream content, we have not seen anything yet. And no, hereditary and lake mungo ARE NOT HORROR no matter how much you try to rationalize it.
human
>Hereditary
>not horror
Literally how? It has tense moments built up, demon summoning, the cult, the body in the attic, the entire sequence of the mother going insane at the end, seeing the sister as a ghostly figure. Unless you mean it's not SCARY. It is in fact a horror movie, you just don't find it scary. Kill List is more of a thriller, whereas Wickerman is a horror, it's all fine lines a lot of these type of films skirt, but it still stands that Hereditary is a horror movie. What everyone finds personally scary is subjective. I think Arachnophobia is a genuinely scary movie despite it's largely comedic elements, but most people wouldn't find it as scary as I do. It's still a horror film.