Torture porn?
It has a pretty good plot and it's not even that gory.
shareIt as pointless gore that offers nothing to the story, A scene was shown just to shock therefore it is Torture porn....
shareSo if a movie has a pointless sex scene or full frontal nudity scene that was shown just to be sexy it's porn?
I wouldn't call any movie porn unless it's nothing but sex or gore or whatever. The word "porn" in the term "torture porn" implies that it's all about torture/nothing but torture and the Hostel movies have less than 20 minutes of torture/gore and like 70 minutes of other stuff. Porn is/should be 70 minutes of porn (torture porn, "sex" porn, ...) and less than 20 minutes of other stuff.
Well the term is up to debate but this interview with special effects creator Tom Savini http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p4w-oN1GOQ check this interview out, this man as been in horror movies since the 70s, He knows what his talking about... skip to about 2:20 in and he says films like this are nothing but torture porn, If a man like this refers to them like that then theres must be some valid point to the term
I think when they use the term "Torture Porn" it refers to act being shown over and over again. to which these type of movies do..
Tom Savini stars in nothing it trash though. hostel is only called torture porn due to Saw, which really does just consist of huge scenes of torture and a few five minute exposition sections. The Hostel films tend to spend the first hour building up and introducing cast, creating an atmosphere before all the nasty stuff happens towards the end. This in my eyes isn't torture porn it's just a very gory horror film that contains scenes of extreme torture, porn is something you jack off too as well. I didn't sit and jack off as Axelle got her head cut off or Beth cut Stewarts balls off and so on,
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