I wouldn't say outright that the new "Old Guys" hold on to the past horror classics they grew up with and loved and dismiss the new wave of horror. I would fall in that group. It's not that we new "Old Guys" hold on too tightly to the horror we grew watching, it's more of appreciating it more when compared to the majority of the new wave of horror. We'd be the same group that appreciates the small, but growing quality of exploitation-style horror that's come out in just the last 3-4 years.

Maybe it's just the culture of most of the youth these days, but appreciation for horror, whether those of the past or the current ones, has tailed off to just becoming a rollercoaster ride. This was why the Dawn remake was well received by this generation's younger horror fans. It had more action and enough gore and horror to qualify as a horror film instead of an action one. Those older generation who grew up with the original either thought it was ok or derided it outright. The remake was too much MTV and less horror. Horror nowadays is more of a sensory experience made to affect the viewer with stimuli after stimuli. There's little or no subtext to the story being told. The production value of the horror films we new "Old Guys" hold onto may be inadequate when compared to horror now, but we seem to like it that way since it gave our horror a less polished look that horror now seems to have. We don't dismiss the horror of this generation. We just dismiss those who call themselves horror when in reality they're not.