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 Feel like I need a psychological deep-dive to figure out what horror movie I should watch.

-I strongly dislike seeing people get tortured. Unless they deserve it.
-Subtlety is good.
-But I saw The Haunting which is like the OG understated classic horror movie, and didn’t get scared.
-Explanation of the scary bad thing ruins it.
-But I want my curiosity satisfied.
-I keep watching recent horror such as Babadook and Hereditary, that’s supposed to be like a return to being anti-cheap jumpscares, and hated all of it.

Who wants to be my scary movie consultant 
 I can help a bit with that and give you some recommendations:
-Train to Busan: A zombie movie from some years ago. It got a lot of popular acclaim for being a breath of fresh air into the genre and i recommend it for the same reason. Movie is about a zombie outbreak in Korea and a father and her daughter trying to reach the safety of a military safety zone in Busan.
-Revenge: A canadian movie from some years ago. If you like people getting what they deserve, this is your movie. A woman is the lover of a playboy man and he invites his friends to hunt in the middle of the desert. After one of them rapes her and they try to cover it up, they decide to kill her. But she survives the attempt and steels herself not only to get away, but to kill them all.
-The Damned Thing: This one is extremely subtle. It starts as a documentary into some enigmatic murders and how 20 years after the first streak of strange murders, they are happening again. I don't want to say more about this because they i would spoil a lot of things.
-Mom and Dad: More funny than anything. A strange epidemic starts to make parents go insane and brutally murder their children. The movie follows a teenage girl and her younger brother surviving the onslaught of her parents. Nic cage is one of the main cast and he's amazing.
-What keeps you Alive: From the same director of Revenge, it's more or less in the same vein. A young woman is having a honeymoon with her wife when she suddenly tries to kill her for no reason. She survives and needs to come up with a way of getting out of the forest that surrounds their cabin.
-Ghostland: This an interesting one when i saw it. Two teenage girls and her mother move to an old house they inherited and in the first night there they are attacked by two maniacs. 16 years later, the younger sister is a successful writer yet in their old house happen a lot of strange things.
-Rent-A-Pal: This one i liked quite a lot for how weird it is. A man in his late 30s that takes care of her elderly dementia ridden mother is trying to find a significant other with little success. Yet one day, looking for videotapes he finds a strange one he decides to watch. Soon, the man in that tape becomes his only friend and he starts developing an unhealthy obsession with it.
-Skinamarink: If you like subtlety, this is for you. It's a movie mostly filmed with still shots with a night vision camera in a completely dark house, with sound being mostly what tells you what is happening. The movie is about a group of children trapped inside their house after the doors and windows dissappear. And something is inside the house with them.

I tried to put all that i know that are popular enough to be in English. I know of some others that are foreign but dunno if you would find a translation, like The good Manners or The Orphanage. I hope it helps 
 It Follows is a pretty good recent horror film. Doesn't explain the bad thing, but I wouldn't say it satisfies much curiosity about what is actually going on.

I saw The Black Phone in theaters this year, it did a good job having a classic horror feel to it. Fills a rare niche of "kids with access to something supernatural vs evil adult," has proactive protagonists which is something I always like in horror films.