Sign in. Not just a list of movies that feature pain and torture to the characters, but movies that hurt your eyes while viewing. Movies that make you wanna look away from the screen but terrified to look away from whats gonna happen. R min Crime, Drama, Thriller.
Seen any good surgery on unanesthetized people lately? One of our heroes is confused about his sexuality, though, and sympathetic to an old man who makes a pass at him. The Passion of the Christ. Explicit scenes of torture and mutilation were once confined to the old 42nd Street, the Deuce, in gutbucket Italian cannibal pictures like Make Them Die Slowly , whereas now they have terrific production values and a place of honor in your local multiplex. It might be, as a screenwriter friend argues, that this trend is mainly a way of ratcheting up the stakes—that in the quest to have a visceral impact, actual viscera are the final frontier. Certainly television has become the place for forensic fetishism. But torture movies cut deeper than mere gory spectacle.
Published: October 13, Torture porn is a lot like regular porn. So-called torture porn is an offshoot of horror that focuses on sadistic bodily harm and mutilation, sometimes at the expense of plot and storytelling. The label was thrust into the spotlight by the movies Saw and Hostel in the mids, and then seemed to fade away by the end of the decade. Except these ones flaunt the definition of torture porn by transcending it.
There are tons and tons of disturbing horror movies out there. Simply, I think these are a good dose of movies running the gamut from thematically disturbing to graphically disturbing, to downright weird. Without further rambling, here are my picks for a bit of wild horror to throw on this Halloween season, if October really has you feeling like you need to test your limits on film.