>>2579304I wouldn't quite describe it as 'sheltered', it's more like a projection of relative anxieties. In the comforts of the first-world, this manifests through a confrontation with the repressive facade which implicitly maintains it, i.e. the horror of the seemingly pristine neighbor, taken as a representation of the aforementioned repression (which is endemic to it).
But if you were to show something like 'get out' to a primitive tribe in Brazil, for example, they'd probably be more bewildered than anything. But fear is a baseline capacity inherent to human beings, so the means of its articulation will be contingently subjectivized relative to the content of a sociohistorical context, meaning that much of what we take for granted as universal about horror isn't necessarily so. All we need as a reference to this is history–it was normalized to perform ritualistic sacrifices at some points, for example.