Horror exists on a spectrum. There is the prestige, elevated fine art of horror seen in movies like The Shining and Hereditary; the gross-out splatter horror of Dead Alive and Evil Dead; the psychologically twisted horror of Audition and Repulsion; the body horror of Videodrome and Tetsuo: The Iron Man; the horror comedy wonder of Young Frankenstein and Bubba Ho-Tep; the silly old-school classics like Them! and The Blob; and the important, all-time greats like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween. But for many people, as great as these films are, they aren't genuinely scary.

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