Note that all four of these genres have huge followings. So even if they are not great cinema, they are entertaining. The first is surprise, as in jumping out of a closet and saying boo. The suspense is heightened if the audience feels a rapport with the character. Puppet Master uses suspense, not surprise.
Films using suspense can afford a slower, more even pace.
In the case of Puppet Master, Schmoeller finds a way to employ suspense and control production costs with a simple camera technique. Cut to still of puppet, then show first person POV from a low camera angle chasing the victim. To give you an idea, one 16 second segment of stop motion puppet animation took three days to shoot, and the actual puppeteering required as many as five puppeteers per puppet. Now, to the story. Fast forward to the present day.