I am a big clucking chicken...and I'm okay with that

So I am learning today that there are more than a few things that I have just gotten way too old to do and the newest item on the list is being scared.  I no longer enjoy scary movies.  To most people this would not be such a big deal but for me this is huge.  When my 15th birthday was approaching (sooooo many years ago) my friends and I set a goal that I would have watched 500 horror movies by the big day.  I already had a catalog listing the classics like the original Universal monsters and their spinoffs to Rosemary's Baby and such.  I had viewed most of those it was the newer "slasher" movies I was adding to my collection.  At one time I considered going down the road of movie makeup and special effects artist.  CGI was unheard of and movie gore was created in someones kitchen.  Yes I eventually outgrew it all but every year when Halloween rolled around and the cable channels pulled anything remotely scarey out of the bag I enjoyed that little guilty pleasure of a good scare.  Then horror movies changed.  Movies like Saw, Hostel, and their sequels and such came along and went from a good scare to torture.  I am in noooo way saying those slasher movies from the 80's were any better.  Hell no!  But there were rules.  No killing kids or innocent virgins and the deaths were quick and quite frankly they were really cheesy looking.  Yes there are always exceptions.  Jaws would have never been as suspensful if a kid hadn't been eaten early on.  That moment you saw that scene you knew all bets were off and anyone was fair game.  But for the most part those movies were campy but sometimes creepy.  So tonight I rented a newer movie I had not seen yet.  I had seen the directors other work and knew it would be something different and maybe scary.  What I did not count on was a half hour in turning the movie off.  Why?  Too violent or graphic? Nope I just got tired of sitting there watching something with one eye open waiting for the whatever to jump out and scare the crap out of me.  That is exactly what I told my dear husband when he half woke up to realize I was shutting it down.  So now I am wondering what else is going to change.  Is it age is it maturity or is it a feeling of not wanting to be scared for entertainment.  That zen feeling I have come to find so comforting I do not want to let go of.  So yep I am chicken I admit it.  Maybe this Halloween I will have to stick to the guaranteed classics for a good scare.  Halloween,Exorcist,Night of the Living Dead(original black and white please) and many others.  I will leave that newer stuff to a younger generation that gets it.  So does it all just go downhill from here.  Things like this are the reason women in their 40's have babies when their kids they already have are half grown.  It does not make you younger just crazier.  Right now we have a living room full of laughing screaming teenagers sucking down vast quantities of mountain dew and chinese food.  Should be scary enough for now.  I guess the running theme I have been stuck on lately is that I am feeling old and (more importantly) we need a lot more kindness and good and less violence and cruelty and negativity.  Sounds simple but what's wrong with that.  Be friendly to people you come across in your daily travels.  If you look you may see someone in need of a little boost you can give them.