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Yeah people really came out swinging with the write-ups I must say!

I agree with most here that The Purge is more action than horror. But that's okay. Action-horror is still a valid subgenre and The Purge is still very much associated with horror culture.

Theoretically, horror SHOULD have an attempt to be scary. The Purge is a scary concept - ALL crime being legal for one day? It's an unknown that starts to raise questions and problems. I think it fits horror.

The problem is, what scares people varies from individual to individual, as well different generations finding different things scary. Monsters like vampires and werewolves are so ubiquitous now I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone scared of them now, but the late 1800s-1940s would tell a different story. Horror continues to morph like that - you start to notice now a bigger shift towards the psychological and the aesthetics of horror being played around with. You can have colorful, disarming horror in a game like Doki Doki Literature Club. Horror can practically be found in all corners of media now - look at the biggest thing in culture right now, the MCU, exploring horror in its latest phase even if its films and TV shows aren't exactly The Exorcist. I think ultimately the way I see horror now is more a tool than a concrete genre and it's only just going to keep opening itself to more interesting ideas and concepts as the decade rolls on.