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See, I don't think that CGI ruined those movies... They're just bad movies. Not even good special effects could have saved The Boogeyman. YEESH was that a painful movie to watch. I had to turn it off.
The Eye and Shutter were poorly-done and unnecessary remakes (especially considering how brilliant the originals were) - I would say bad acting coupled with a bad script made those two dogs, but not really the special effects.
The Unborn - I actually liked a lot of the imagery; the creepy dog, the twisted old man - That CGI looked really good, actually... But the story, plot, and writing were abysmal. Again, not really the special effects that ruined it; in that case, I think that it was over-directed mass produced garbage (and, MAN what was Gary Oldman doing in it???).
Haven't seen Haunting in Connecticut, but I haven't heard anything good about it either...
See, the only decent horror movie that comes to the front of my mind that was ruined by CGI was Blade. Not that the acting was that great, but for a horror action movie, it was pretty ground-breaking; it brought the concept of a raving vampire counter-culture onto the screen and had some pretty kickass action scenes that predated The Matrix... But the very end was just ridiculous and utterly laughable with the whirlwind of CGI blood... Apparently that was their second go at the ending, too, because their original concept was one of a giant CGI blood monster - LOL - booooooooooy how awful that would have been...
But anyway. The films mentioned are just bad movies. CGI didn't "ruin" them; poor writing and acting did. I still don't see a hardcore claim as to how CGI is "ruining" horror. I just don't. You can say that you prefer more "realistic" horror movies (i.e. I like the Asian Horror example; I prefer the concept of the more corporeal yūrei in The Grudge/Shutter/Rinne - that scares the CRAP out of me), but animatronics have their limits, too.
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