Are modern Scary Movies Scarier than Scary Movies from the 70's,80's and 90's to you?

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Just wanted to hear your thoughts.

Although I am not a big fan of scary movies in general, my wife has gotten me to go with her to see quite a few these past few years. I grew up in the 80's so I have seen quite a few scary movie during that time frame for example Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins 1, The Fly, Poltergeist 1 and a few others and there were quite a few scenes that were back then to me scary as hell.

Watching a scary movie now I noticed there is more of a reliance on jump scares and things that move in the shadows....yet these movies are still rated R and not as scary as the R scary movies of the 80's.

What do you think has happened? Is it because I grew up seeing a few scary movies in the 80's (mostly on tv/hbo) that I have become desensitized to what is shown in theaters today? Don't get me wrong, there are a few movies that were like WTF?