Thanks for the tag
@Paperinukke I voted "Worse than before".
I was born in 1985, my first horror movie as a kiddo was Stephen King's "It". Horror sub-genre I enjoy are horror thrillers, psychological horror, suspense, every horror movie with Monsters (Dracula, Vampires, Frankenstein, Werewolf ...) and Zombie/Infected movies.
The horror movie market is flooded with bad movies. When you want to shoot a cheap movie, horror is probably your right choice. You don't need much money and there is a big market with fans who like those bad horror movies and buy it. And this is where it fails. A good horror movie tells a complex story, it must be very well photographed, the acting must be very credible. Most of the time they got a sublime topic which other genres besides Drama don't talk about. Fear, Diseases, Exasperation. You don't like a Drama about cancer but you like The Fly. And these points are missed in most of all horror movies in the last decade.
The Cabin in the Woods is not a horror movie, it is a poorly done comedy movie. The same category like Scary Movie. You watch it and you think are they serious or are they doing a parody on the horror genre. All cliches are there, dumb characters, dumb story, bad acting, a totally waste of time and a insult to the genre. So awful. But everybody likes it so hey lets shoot more of these dumb movies. Which topic the people should like!? Oh okay I got some ideas: found footage, ghosts, documentary style, possessed killer dolls, creepy kids, haunted houses. Or only boring jump-scares!? It should be dump and 2-dimensional characters and a lot gore. It works. Sadly.
A decade ago they did intelligent writing, interesting story with good twists, it was well photographed, full of ideas, top actors was chosen for the characters. This is all missing. And I didn't grew up with them. I couldn't understand sublime topics and intelligent scripts when I was 15. I found them in the early 20s.
And I don't say EVERY horror movie in the last decade is bad. But most of them.