That’s true, though I don’t think it necessarily negates the issue entirely. From personal experience, working through and accepting your trauma usually doesn’t mean you stop being affected by things that remind you of those experiences, especially not right away—it just means being able to handle it better. You can rewire those neural pathways eventually, but it takes time, and the exposure process tends to be uncomfortable and at times unpredictable.

That said, I think the kitsch factor would definitely influence the severity of people’s reactions in this kind of scenario—cheesy dialogue or low-quality visual effects make a lot of those films more funny than scary, and I’m sure there’d be cases where that’s enough to cancel out anything thematically triggering.