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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ
How so? I guess you're meaning people watching for visceral thrills & gore.
Forced Entry would have to come (haha :p) under the banner of pornographic horror.
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I think that maybe I was being too general - When I think about how horror may be "pornographic," I think about the sexual nature of penetration, be it stabbing, cutting, etc. I think of exploitation as being pornographic, and a lot of horror is exploitative. When thinking of "torture porn," people are getting penetrated, abused, degraded, exploited for an audience, which is similar to pornography.
I don't know - The association makes sense to me.
If one wanted to steer away from the term "torture porn" (and I
do because I respect you and Ferox, who both hate the term), what would you use to describe movies that focus on torture, like
Hostel,
Men Behind The Sun,
Salo,
Martyrs, etc? I honestly reach for words when trying to express that genre... Like I feel that it's too simple to say "torture" and too simple to say "exploitation."
Thoughts?