I agree on The Beyond and the ability to fight back and defeat evil. That evil in that film is so overwhelming and inchoate that you cannot protect yourself from it let alone drive it back or defeat it is a weakness. I've always rationalized films and stories where they forms the major weakness as being world building and color for that gestalt horror-cosmos each of us carries around in our heads.

The Beyond is part of the Italian milieu which includes Demons and cheesy Zombi flicks and the terrifying Blind Dead. Sometimes people get completely waylaid by evil, but sometimes they can fight back. The Witches in Suspiria and Inferno are defeated in the end and their power dispersed, after all.

The ideal horror, though, includes fighting back. You can beat Freddy, you can bargain with Cenobites, you can chain Jason at the bottom of a lake. You can turn down the Mi-Go's deal or break Joseph Curwen's attempt to escape death and conquer the world.