Torture porn = made to get pleasure out of seeing peolle being tortured.
Is it case here? No. So SHUT THE FUCK UP you pathetic fucking retards. Saw or Human centipede are torture porn. This, Hostel, is a great horror film in which the tension is built up slowly.
Jeez... idiots.
I don't really see how Saw is distinctively different from Hostel. Personally, I think Saw's a better story, but obviously that's just my opinion.
Human Centipede was more a gross-out movie over 'torture porn' in my view. Really, when it comes to 'torture porn,' I think the genre has such a negative baggage to it that it makes it hard to subjectively decide what'd fit into it. The creators of Saw don't think the Saw films are torture porn, but I don't know how much that means.
The problem is that films like Hostel, Saw, Captivity, Human Centipede, A Serbian Film, and Turistas are, to me, just new-age slasher or splatter films. Given the highly negative baggage behind 'torture porn' as a subgenre, I generally don't use the term at all.
I don't disagree. I think Hostel had real potential. Too bad it was an obnoxious hack at the helm like Eli Roth, who hasn't the brains or artistic touch to make this film rise above the average schlock.
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