As an old, my hearing is only slightly sub-par, but I benefit a lot from these. One show I watch often has extremely quiet sounds or voices in the background that are plot-relevant, but I wouldn't hear at all.
I'm okay with "found footage" style horror, and last year watched a lot of it because of a friend who likes it a lot better than I do. The peeve I developed watching them was dependence on brief glimpses of something in the darkness. Yes, horror thrives on the unknown, but if I have to be looking at exactly the right corner of the screen for the right 250 milliseconds without any hints that I should be looking there, and I have to try to puzzle out what the characters are scared by (or rewind and go frame-by-frame), it's not going to produce the desired emotional effect.
More broadly, I don't think horror is really a genre. Horror is a feeling, or rather a broad set of feelings (fear, disgust, alienation, existential horror, dread, etc) that some works of art can provoke. The horror genre is when you take the tropes from those works and deploy them without much regard for the feelings they were used to convey.
All of them I can't think of a horror movie that hasn't just been either unintentional comedy or plain shite. Also its always gore and body horror like therr are other drivers for fear.
Try The Endless (2017). There's almost no gore (just a few blood splashes, where what it's splashing from is offscreen), and no body horror, but just cosmic "wrongness" and existential dread as you gradually figure out what's happening.
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As an old, my hearing is only slightly sub-par, but I benefit a lot from these. One show I watch often has extremely quiet sounds or voices in the background that are plot-relevant, but I wouldn't hear at all.