Poll: "Torture Porn" films.

[curlycrouton]

I'm sure many of you have watched films like Saw or Hostel. I myself have watched about a half hour of both. But only a half hour, it's really all I could take.

I can't understand how these films are entertaining. Perhaps I'm being a wimp, but it seems to me to be disgusting torture scene after disgusting torture scene, backed up by a thinly veiled attempt at a plot, created for the sole purpose of warranting all the torture. Every time I attempt to watch one of these films, endeavouring to find out what the appeal behind them is, I end up feeling slightly sickened and horrified that such scenes can ever be branded entertaining.

Don't get me wrong, gore and blood is often necessary to add a sense of realism, or to outline the horrors of war in various films, but when it's just violence for it's own sake, well that seems to me as mindless blood lust, almost animalistic.

So the question I ask you is this. Do you enjoy these films? If so, can you explain the appeal?

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I don't like 'em that much.
Sure, gore can be entertaining, but basing a whole horror movie just on that one aspect seems cheap to me, get what I mean?

 

[Mephisteus]

Right, I just can't put into words why I watch these movies. I never watched any saw movie other than the first two. As for the Hostel ones I doubt I'll ever watch them again.

 

[Biek]

I enjoy horror movies but the saw and hostel series didnt appeal to me at all. Torture porn is an excellent name for them as people watch it for the sadism rather than the actual plot.

 

[Plauged1]

I grew tired of it after a while. Why won't they stop and make another Silent Hill movie? That would be time well spent...

 

[Nukey]

horror films are good, but 2 hours of a guy cutting of his leg isn't worth 10 bucks.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

I enjoy both the first Hostel and Saw movies, anything after that is just stupid. The first Saw had a good plot and really very little blood (most of the action takes place off screen). Hostel was just a true blood and guts movies. I feel that if you are making these horrific torture movies the first rule should be: No Sequels (although, that could be said across the board). Did they make I Spit on Your Grave 2: Electric Boogaloo? No, because they had what they needed with the first one.

These torture movies should only be one shot films because the plot really is kind of stupid and the becomes apparent in the sequels. If you are going to kill someone, just do it, there is no need to justify your actions.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

They're made for people who can only get it up after seeing a bloody neck stump.

 

[Lord George]

Love them immensely, the gore, the death, the fun. Mabye I just have a diffrent sense of humour but I laughed my head off at Saw 3 (mainly because of the plot, but also because of the stupid "trials".) Then again I'm the sort of person who enjoys cutting people (consenting people mind).

 

[bad rider]

I think they are awesome. Never thought they were "porn" though. It's just films that explore a darker side of human nature, that phrase dosen't really do justice anymore since books *cough* twighlight *cough* but it's more like why I like hannibal lecter. Sure the films aren't quite as good as red dragon or silence of the lambs, but they follow along the same lines which make them an intriguing watch.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I can't stand them, but I wouldn't say they disgust/horrify me. I'm far too desensitised for that.

Yeah, I don't get what the big deal is either. I mean, some young-ish guy or girl goes into an obviously dodgy place with a bunch of friends, and everybody dies gruesomely on-screen. Whoop de fucking doo.
It's just boring. There's basicly no storyline, and you spend more than half the movie looking at fake blood and bad effects.
Where the hell is the appeal?

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Then again I'm the sort of person who enjoys cutting people (consenting people mind).

Uh... Ooook, I'll step over here now...

 

[Shycte]

horror films are good, but 2 hours of a guy cutting of his leg isn't worth 10 pennys.

Fix'd that for you.

Yeah, pretty much what he said.

 

[Christemo]

gore is fun to look at in games, but its not good in movies. its too "Real". i saw Saw once with 8 classmates. it sucked. the movies are made so quickly they could just call them Saw: episode [insert number here].

sure, gore was fun in Gladiator and Troy, but it wasnt seeing Torture and excessive amounts of blood.

 

[Flying Pilgrim]

The stories are bad,The acting is terrible,these films are horrible.

 

[Melancholy_Ocelot]

It was interesting ... the first time ...

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

I love them. Then again watching other people in pain gets me... in the mood.

Nothing better then cutting someone else and watching them bleed in real life though.

 

[Lord George]

Then again I'm the sort of person who enjoys cutting people (consenting people mind).

Uh... Ooook, I'll step over here now...

Hey don't knock it till you've tried it, bloodplay can really help a relationship .

 

[Xvito]

I think that the movies are disgusting, but not more disgusting than any other movie that's based solely around murder and war and such... If they lack a story.

Examples of this are: Every other horror movie ever made, I just don't find any appeal in watching people die.