Scary asylums! Creepy disfigured people! People being punished for ‘not moving on and letting their trauma control them’! Violent and dangerous ‘crazy’ people! Poverty coded scary old women who must be a witch!
While asylums are less common horror locations these days, it still doesn’t stop the genre from using pop psychology to frame itself as deep while simultaneously expousing harmful messages. Usually written by people with very shallow understanding of the themes they’re employing for cheap scares at the expense of some of the most marginalized groups.
Also this might be cringe taste but some horror I actually do like are Jordan Peeles movies, because the themes of those are things like “Wow racism is horrificly dehumanising” and “Animals should be respected.”
Yeah sounds like you’re similar to me where you don’t mind stuff that explores moving on from trauma as long is it isn’t victim blamey. There is this gross attitude I see surrounding ptsd where the implication is that it’s the survivors fault that they can’t bootstrap themselves out of trauma and it just ends up being punishment porn of the victim being made an example of for their lack of growth. A sort of “It’s their own fault that they’re letting themselves be held back from healing” thing. Turning a systemic problem into a personal responsibility lecture of “this could be you if you don’t stop being weak!” Message.
But knowing me I just could be overthinking and projecting. It’s a sore topic for me.