I'm working on a theory for this, but I'll express some highlights. Basically, comedy and horror cannot be produced without certain insights into the human psyche.

Comedy's a bit easier to explain. It often revolves around absurdity and satire. The secret sauce is timing, which most directors fail to understand. A great script/routine is trash without the timing to sell jokes/gags. I don't think I'm the only person that's thought "That would've been way funnier if they had held back the punchline just a little longer".

Horror has some distinct subgenres, but I'm only going to refer more directly to fear. I have an interest in fear, so I love a good horror film. The foundation of fear is something like "This is wrong", then either followed by "I know why it's wrong" or "I don't know why it's wrong, but I am not eager to learn". There's a big difference between real life scares like almost dropping your keys down a sewer and outlandish scares like being confronted by a monster. I think part of the difference may be imagination/creativity; getting mugged can be pretty bad, but a creative person can imagine a mugging much much worse than the average guy's experience with it.

Some ideological soapboxing is practically a trope in the genre, but it's always able to be overlooked for the sake of the thrill. I'd be perfectly content to watch a horror film about how evil drumpf gassed mexican babies and bullied china pooh, IF the horror elements are spot on - but I'm suggesting that's impossible because our modern breed of ideologue is too caught up in their dogma to consider the feelings of other people.

So, simple explanation: horror is not being handled by people with imagination.

Edit, alternative angle: a lot of people are being emotionally repressed to the point that they lose understanding of humor and horror, among other things. Such a person would be unable to differentiate between their various emotions, effectively becoming emotional beasts that can only consider "is thing good? if no, then bad" with a side of wondering what daddy told them to feel.

I'm working on a theory for this, but I'll express some highlights. Basically, comedy and horror cannot be produced without certain insights into the human psyche.

Comedy's a bit easier to explain. It often revolves around absurdity and satire. The secret sauce is timing, which most directors fail to understand. A great script/routine is trash without the timing to sell jokes/gags. I don't think I'm the only person that's thought "That would've been way funnier if they had held back the punchline just a little longer".

Horror has some distinct subgenres, but I'm only going to refer more directly to fear. I have an interest in fear, so I love a good horror film. The foundation of fear is something like "This is wrong", then either followed by "I know why it's wrong" or "I don't know why it's wrong, but I am not eager to learn". There's a big difference between real life scares like almost dropping your keys down a sewer and outlandish scares like being confronted by a monster. I think part of the difference may be imagination/creativity; getting mugged can be pretty bad, but a creative person can imagine a mugging much much worse than the average guy's experience with it.

Some ideological soapboxing is practically a trope in the genre, but it's always able to be overlooked for the sake of the thrill. I'd be perfectly content to watch a horror film about how evil drumpf gassed mexican babies and bullied china pooh, IF the horror elements are spot on - but I'm suggesting that's impossible because our modern breed of ideologue is too caught up in their dogma to consider the feelings of other people.

So, simple explanation: horror is not being handled by people with imagination.