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It sounds like what you seem to find terrifying is what most exploitation films are made of. But you do have to take into account, you are searching for a horror film that will scare the pants off of you. That's not going to happen. You are old enough to realize, it's just a movie, and if it does wind up being too much for you, you can click a button and make it stop.
I don't think it's humanly possible for someone to create an experience such as near death, to be shown on a movie screen, and it still bother you. Boogeymen are the only things that are still somewhat, scary to most. And I guess they figure too, if you want something real, you can watch the evening news.
Vacancy, was technically a realistic scenerio. There are sick people out there, and I don't doubt that, that sort of thing happens. But because it is a movie, it's not going to have the same impact on you, as say, being there yourself.
Though many movies may not be realistic, they can still be somewhat effective. Take for instance, Dead Birds. I was watching this really late one night, and I could barely stay awake. But the way this movies suspense and minimal amount of horror actually played into it, it scared me. I didn't really want to go to sleep when I turned it off. I couldn't get some of those images out of my head.
Yes, movies such as Hostel, that the main focal point, is sex and gratious nudity, are not really horror in my opinion. They fall behind in the fact that they aren't scary with all of the naked women running around. Realistic? Maybe. Scary? Deffinitely not. But they found something that they are able to cash in on, and they are going for it.
As far as having another movie with the impact that The Exorcist had, it's not going to happen. At that time, people didn't know what to think. That wasn't a part of a normal film. No horror film prior to that had been quite that controversial in that field of play. Now days, we have come to expect it. All the general horror audience wants is more of the regular stuff. Mostly gore and nudity.
I think in the horror movie world, the only way to shock people now, would be to actually kill people on screen. Not in a special effects way, but in real life, they actually die. And I'm not talking about executions on tape.
I hope they don't ever take it that far, but some idiot is going to get the idea and go for it.
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