T-Rex: If you look back at a lot of horror movies, they're cheesy! Trains driving towards the camera, ghosts in the attic that just want to play checkers, that sort of thing.
T-Rex: But if you look at modern horror: way spooky!!
T-Rex: The conclusion is obvious: just as a joke becomes less funny the more you hear it, horror is the same! In our own times it used to be a little girl crawling towards you with black hair over her face was scary, now it's self-parody. If we are to remain terrified, we NEED a constant stream of new spookums!!
Utahraptor: But that's what we HAVE been doing, for decades and decades!
T-Rex: PRECISELY.
T-Rex: Modern horror is great BECAUSE there's a financial incentive to push the limits of terror itself! Our thirst for spooks has led to a progressively more terrifying world, and I foresee a day where horror will be SO SPOOKY, those who are improperly prepared, like nerds and babies, will die from shock!
Off panel: I mean, you could argue that it's not horror, just that the world ITSELF that has become scarier.
T-Rex: Ooh, that's a great premise!! I can't wait to see it explored in a low-budget film, complete with teens being murdered at an average rate of one every 15 minutes