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I agree that films which are purely about creating as much violence are shit, and there are a lot of film that are like this. Most of them came in the 70s and 80s though. The likes of I Spit On Your Grave and Last House On The Left simply set up a scenario for people to be killed in as gruesome a way as possible, and naturally you did this by making it a revenge movie. And what would they be getting revenge for? Another gruesome and drawn out act of someone being tortured (in this case, a woman being repeatedly raped and then killed).
But most of these cliches surrounding horror movies come out of genuinely brilliant films that just happen to be gory. George A Romero's films inspired most of these sorts of films, and yet as a social commentary and a thriller, his films are outstanding. Then there's the likes of The Evil Dead and The Thing, where the horror is more of a comedic element, and so you get a whole host of copycat films that try for more and more gore. And finally, you get the likes of Saw, where the extreme levels of violence are used to provide an extreme dilemma for the character. And naturally, you get a load of copycat films in that vein too, that either do the same thing much more poorly, or fail to recognise that it's not the gore that makes the film good, even though it's integral to the plot.