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The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.
That's because most horror movies and series are really bad, imo. Cheap jumpscares, and hollow stories among the reasons. There are – sadly only few – exceptions though.
Assuming every horror movie will be bad because it's horror sounds like a great way to never find a good horror movie.
I still watch a lot of horror movies and series (especially during Spooktober) in pursuit of those few exceptions. It's sufficient for me to have a more or less dark atmosphere and a macabre story. But I don't engulf myself in illusions: most of them are just really really bad in my opinion. It's like deliberately watching trash, which can be fun if you approach it with that mindset.
Watching a lot of movies doesn't help if you go in assuming it'll be terrible.
It's rather having very low expectations.
It's not an assumption. Most horror films are just shit