I hated Hostel. Like, alot. I thought it was pure crap and got incredibly tired of the horror community fellating Eli Roth over it. I completely agree on your points, newer horror tends to put too much emphasis on gore as if by itself it is scary. Its not.
I also hated Last House on the Left (the original, never seen the remake) because I found it too gratuitous and just plain -not scary-. Bah.
Slower, subtle horrors are much better than most of the recent slag. But none of them really fit in this topic as they tend to not have an actual villian. I suppose "The Bad Seed"'s Rhoda kind of counts.
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