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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
I will fight till the day I die on this point: just because a movie has a lot of gore doesn't make it a torture porn. That's the most overused phrase out there. Saw isn't torture porn. Grotesque and August Underground are. A torture porn is a movie that tries to thrill the audience with excessive violence, and any plot is just a vehicle for that goal. Saw tries more than that. It's a gritty little movie, but it's not even as gory as High Tension. It tries to thrill the audience with the twists and turns in the plot. Hostel is the same thing. There's not much gore in the movie apart from maybe a couple scenes.
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'Torture porn' is just a term that ill informed media coined to pigeon hole the gorier films of the (mostly) horror genre. Saw and Hostel were among the first names to be lumped into this 'sub genre' - also films like Martyrs and Haute Tension. It sprung up much in a way the label 'Video Nasty' in the 80's (though the subjects of this term are much easier to define).
'[insert name here] is a movie that tries to thrill the audience with excessive violence, and any plot is just a vehicle for that goal. ' - I think that can be said for a lot of Horror films, Brain Dead for example.