re: Were the early Horror Movies Scarier than the ones Nowadays?

I find horror movies today to be jumpy, but not usually truly scary. Some of the old ones don't hold up as well but the classics transcend time. The original Halloween, The Exorcist, Psycho, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc etc. Some of them were just really good movies, genre aside.
The lack of real scary ones makes the really good ones that come out today stand out like The Strangers, The Ring, The Witch, etc