Well. Yeah you're watching the fast food of horror movies. If I only went to McDonald's, I'd probably say that I never ate a good burger in my whole life and therefore, all burgers are disgusting.
A Nightmare on Elm Street, only the first one, was made at the beginning of the 1980s. It's hard to scare new audiences with 30-year-old movies, because the special effects are obviously not as great. But that's not the reason why ANOES and Halloween are classics. It's because they are very unique in the atmosphere they manage to create. Whether you find Freddy scary or not is another story.
And in those two movies, it's not what you see that is deemed scary, but the whole idea behind it all. In one movie, you have an ex-child murderer who was burned alive by angry parents and who came back to hunt the children in their dreams, where they can't escape and they can't fight back. That, to me, is as scary as it gets. Then, in the second movie (the original, not the remake), you have a 6-year-old child who, one day and for no apparent reason, picks up a knife and kills his sister and her boyfriend. Then he goes to an asylum. I find asylums extremely creepy btw. He eventually escapes and goes back to finish what he started and kill the rest of his family. That's a pretty scary idea too.
I think the problem is that while watching the movie, you don't lose yourself in it and you keep thinking to yourself: "Ok that's fake". If I watch a comedy and I start wondering whether each joke is funny or not, I'm probably not gonna laugh either.
But you should watch psychological horror. This might be more your thing. You named a lot of horror porn in your list. I am not scared by face blood and guts either. Try Oculus. The Others and The Babadook are great movies too. And I liked 1408 with John Cusack. Stop watching junk man.
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