Are horrors set in the past scarier?

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With the exception of things like Final Destination, which harnesses what can go wrong in day to day modern life, I find older films and films set in the past scarier.

This is because:

Modern films are too "hollywood" using good looking guys even to play parts of vampires etc...

Films set in the past you have further to travel between towns, not everyone had cars, cars could breakdown more easily, and are flimsier. Also I hate cringeworthy mobile phone scenes. Theres never signal or battery. I like the past because you couldn't just pick up a phone and call for help.

Has anyone seen the original Nosferatu? Its soooo creepy, the makeup, women were generally weaker at that time, and there was no phones at all, even the landlines weren't sidespread. The soundtrack was also good.
 
I think older horror films are generally better anyway - there is something a lot more sinister about black and white films with off key instrumental than the glossy modern horrors with non-atmospheric music.
 
If you want to get away from typical present day "Hollywood" horror movies then i wholeheartedly recommend you take a look at some foreign horrors, particularly the recent "new wave" of French horror movies like 'Martyrs', 'Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension', 'Inside' and 'Frontier(s)'. All are very horrific, tense, scary and disturbing (particularly 'Martyrs'), which are all things that Hollywood horrors fail to be these days.
 
Thats a good point. It must be becoming more difficult for writers to cover every avenue otherwise people will say 'Out of 5 teenagers stuck in the wooRAB, one of them must have a mobile"

However one of the creepiest horror films for me is set in the future - Alien.
 
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