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I believe Hostel used torture very effectively to create a morality play about the high price of "Ugly Americanism." That fact that the message is so lost on most of the population only underscores the films importance. I enjoyed the film tremendously. I even enjoyed Hostel II.
Sure, Captivity was a crap film, but it wasn't a crap film because of the torture, it simply wasn't written, directed or acted well.
The Girl Next Door is a solid and disturbing film that is all about torture. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was brilliant, and that dinner sequence was prolonged psychological and emotional torture.
Torture isn't the issue and "Torture-Porn" is a stupid media-created term that has no relevence or creeedence coming from the the same pundits who defend our actions in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Grhaib, but think a trashy scary movie is somehow going to undermine the morality of our society.
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
Francis Bacon
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