I'm not sure that is what's happened to the horror genre. There are many modern horror films that are intelligent, compassionate, cathartic, and also terrifying - Under the Shadow and The Babadook leap to mind immediately, for example.

I also struggle to see how you had issues with Fury Road, yet didn't mind Mad Max 2, which to my mind is easily the most vicious of the films.

As an Englishman, generally I couldn't give a crap about being the bad guys in so many films, but I agree The Patriot was laughable. Braveheart? Well, despite the film being seized upon by the SNP (my father, a Scotsman, was a lifelong unionist and absolutely despised the SNP), I don't really view that film as history. More mythology, akin to The Adventures of Robin Hood. It doesn't skimp on realism in the battle scenes, but it plays up the myth of William Wallace to such a degree that it's impossible to take the film at any other level (especially the lunatic way it has him sleeping with the French Princess - a character who was barely a child at the time).