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It doesn't seem like we have progressed much from 'gore for gore's sake is insulting to me', and 'gore without plot is insulting to me'. I think some people are constantly missing the point.
Look at it this way: like the Italian zombie movies of the 70s/80s, 'torture porn' films are about spectacle above plot. In The Beyond for example, narrative function gives way to elaborate set-pieces. It is a conscious descision based on economic and aesthetic factors - narrative becomes a simple pretext for spectacle. That is the point.
Modern exploitation has higher production values and often manages to combine more raw (Wolf Creek, Hostel) and ambitious (Saw, Haute Tension) narratives with big set-pieces. So even if audiences still cannot find it within themselves to give much about the fates of characters in (or because of) a 'torture porn' movie, there is always still the spectacle to enjoy.
For horror fans at least, everyone should be a winner here - unless of course they have curiously 'higher' demands which so far I have yet to see adequately explained.
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