So, why do so many horror films, well . . . turn out not only kind of bad but are really just pseudo-snuff films?
This question came up on Twitter, and I responded with my theory – that when the killers of the slasher genre became stars, franchises, it meant horror turned into a body count factory. Once the killer is just there to pile up bodies, yet is a star, there's not much to do. Perhaps the ultimate distillation of this is the FInal Destination series where people who avoid death die creatively at the hands of a kind of "force of fate."