Here, the burden of moral responsibility is literalised by the blood on their hands. Horror emanates from the captive-turned-torturer's willing- ness to (a) ...
and rape. Second, violence is read as pornographic. Critics allege that torture ... indicted with including 'gore for gore's sake' (Kermode, 2008a), 'nasty.
Any work which gives heavy, focused attention to Cold-Blooded Torture and/or mutilation of someone. The point usually isn't to show how wrong it is, but to ...
by IC Pinedo · 2014 · Cited by 18 — Torture porn refers to a specific cycle of ultra-violent films that dominated the box office between 2004 and 2008, films that focus on the
Any work which gives heavy, focused attention to Cold-Blooded Torture and/or mutilation of someone. The point usually isn't to show how wrong it is, but to ...See more
by IC Pinedo · 2014 · Cited by 18 — Torture alone does not make a horror film a work of torture porn. Torture porn refers to a specific cycle of ultra-violent films that domina