The Adults In The Room Horror's strides toward inclusion has meant a nice uptick in stories about actual grown-ups. By Phil Nobile Jr. · @philnobilejr · April 20, 2021, 12:45 PM EDT The solemn narration at the top of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre asserts that what happens to the film’s protagonists “is all the more tragic, in that they were young.” I mean, is it? I am long past horror’s beloved 18-24 demographic, and as I age into an even less relevant age group, I (somewhat selfishly, sure) don’t see how horror happening to young people is automatically more tragic than having it visited upon someone with kids, or a career, or good credit. Old people experience fear and terror, too, and probably spend more time thinking about their own death than do the horny teens and 20-somethings at whom the studios tend to aim their horror. The olds need horror too!