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Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
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Saw, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging...
Jason Kimbro (105 KP) rated Hostel (2005) in Movies
Dec 30, 2017
Jason Kimbro (105 KP) rated Hostel Part II (2007) in Movies
Dec 30, 2017
Andy K (10821 KP) rated Saw (2004) in Movies
Nov 4, 2017
Keeps the suspense up throughout (1 more)
Minimal cheap gore
The only good one. After this, the torture porn genre began with the cheap gore and poor writing. I watched Saw when it was first released not knowing any of the twists and was pleasantly surprised upon its conclusion.
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Hostel (2005) in Movies
Jan 16, 2021
I kind of admire how Hostel goes from cooky teen sex comedy, to Oh God make it stop torture porn at the drop of a hat. Pretty trashy, but one of those movies that everyone talked about when I was in high school and I low key rated it whilst being an edge lord. As a grown ass man, it's tolerable at best...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
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A child born in a slaughterhouse grows up to become a chainsaw-wielding killer in a family of...
Slasher Gore Gory Torture porn Prequel
Erika (17788 KP) rated Death Wish (2018) in Movies
Mar 16, 2018 (Updated Mar 16, 2018)
I haven't seen the original Death Wish film, so I'm just reviewing this as an Eli Roth directed movie with Bruce Willis in it. One, I was glad that there wasn't as much gore as I was expecting. I know Roth typically directs horror and torture porn, so I'm glad he showed restraint. It did take a bit to get going, but when it did, I was glad. It was interesting and was a really good idea to base it in the Chicago area, given it's like the wild west up there. The only real problem had was the pacing, and it did feel like a long hour and 47 minutes.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Saw (2004) in Movies
Dec 17, 2019 (Updated Jan 8, 2020)
The Start
Saw- this one started it all, this one started the franchise. This one is the best one out of all of them. This one has the best story, the best plot and the best twist ending to all of them. This one is more detective film than a tourture film, it still had tourture in it, but its more about the two main charcters trying to survivor and figure out where their are and the detective trying to find them. With introduction Jigsaw/John Kramer, doctor Gordon and Amanda Young.
The Plot: Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize they've been trapped by a sadistic serial killer nicknamed "Jigsaw" and must complete his perverse puzzle to live, flashbacks relate the fates of his previous victims. Meanwhile, Dr. Gordon's wife (Monica Potter) and young daughter (Makenzie Vega) are forced to watch his torture via closed-circuit video.
After this one, the franchise became more of a tourture porn franchise, well it did become tourture porn in the sequels, with focus more on tourture and the traps rather than a story. The story is just sprinkled within inside the tourture porn and traps, you just have to find the story.
Like i said before this one is the best one out of all of them, the best story, the best plot and the best twist ending.
Want to play a game, do you punk? Well do you?
The Plot: Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize they've been trapped by a sadistic serial killer nicknamed "Jigsaw" and must complete his perverse puzzle to live, flashbacks relate the fates of his previous victims. Meanwhile, Dr. Gordon's wife (Monica Potter) and young daughter (Makenzie Vega) are forced to watch his torture via closed-circuit video.
After this one, the franchise became more of a tourture porn franchise, well it did become tourture porn in the sequels, with focus more on tourture and the traps rather than a story. The story is just sprinkled within inside the tourture porn and traps, you just have to find the story.
Like i said before this one is the best one out of all of them, the best story, the best plot and the best twist ending.
Want to play a game, do you punk? Well do you?
Kim Newman recommended The Most Dangerous Game (1932) in Movies (curated)
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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
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"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so...