Sentences with phrase «torture porn»

EA's Beaver Talks Dead Space's M - Rated Quandary «Talking to Gamasutra, producer Chuck Beaver has been discussing Electronic Arts» decision to go M - rated with sci - fi horror title Dead Space, explaining: «When we pitched the game, we had to figure out a way that we weren't just going to be a tiny niche market - torture porn» - also discussing the game's HUD-less, cutscene-less approach.»

It certainly hasn't toned down its edge — and its adolescent torture porn horror will disgust many viewers.

During the early stages of the game, the developer spoke with legends of horror filmmaking such as Wes Craven, who spoke about what horror meant to him, and Eli Roth, who Schofield said was a bit more into torture porn than he was looking for, even though Roth was a really nice guy.

There's plenty here that's grotesque — The Evil Within is stuffed with gore and viscera and visual homages to torture porn.

The «torture porn» genre of films does nothing for me — watching extended, agonizing, realistic torture is not my idea of entertainment.

And unlike most torture porn, at least this victim didn't die in vain as all by - products of the show are recycled into art, with the best of the bunch featured on exhibit at the Baltimore National Modern Art Museum.

Too often stories that deal with these sort of subjects devolve into torture porn and not being familiar with the author I didn't really know what to expect.

Opening with some PG - 13 torture porn (See Deadshot restrained and beaten!

There are few things I've come to hate more than the term «torture porn,» which was coined in the wake of mid-2000s films like Saw and Hostel.

Of course, horror has since the beginning of time been looked down upon by film buffs, and «torture porn» is just another way to slam the genre for being the bastard stepchild of the entertainment industry.

Time for lingerie and literal torture porn!

Without any kind of backstory on the killer the movie comes across as torture porn that kind of made me feel dirty watching it.

This Halloween, when you are picking out the right film to snuggle up to your date with, forgo the Twilights and torture porn, and pick up one of these great little gems.

Released in 2008 amid a deluge of stylishly deranged French, Japanese, and Korean imports, as well as a healthy flow of post-Eli Roth torture porn, Bryan Bertino's debut looked pretty generic upon arrival, even by the standards of genre fare: another faux - authentic urban legend («What you are about to see is inspired by true events» lies the opening title card) about a good - looking couple being stalked by a gang of killers.

James Wan, the man who brought the world the start of the Saw franchise... Who would have ever thought that the person behind a franchise that is infamously known as «torture porn» would be able to create such smart, genuinely creepy films as the first Insidious, The Conjuring, and now Insidious: Chapter 2?

As a reaction to this, we have the stirrings of the «torture porn» sub-genre, an attempt to be divisive within a genre that is now permanently in the public eye.

The horror genre is arguably the most exploited of genre categories, with its long history of fads and movements (slashers in the 80's, self - reference in the 90's, torture porn in the 00's and so on) constantly reinventing itself to try and goose its audience one more time.

We're talking about Hammer Films, the organization that brought us such cheesy, guilty pleasure,»50s era creepshow treats as Horror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torture porn.

Torture porn for Guardian readers?

For me, it's more realistic and frightening thinking that someone could break into your house when you least suspect it versus some movie monster or torture porn demon ghoul.

The makers of the The Last Exorcism — including torture porn aficionado Eli Roth (Hostel) who co-produces here — would seem to have found it using the device of documentary realism.

Believe it or not, this is far from your average torture porn.

But the new version seems even more rhetorical and redundant in the wake of torture porn like Audition (1999), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), and Hard Candy (2005), not to mention real - life horrors like Columbine, Virginia Tech, the recent NIU shootings, and the Tinley Park clothing store executions, whose victims had their limbs bound with plastic tape just like the family in Funny Games.

Meet Toby Young, admitted BAFTA member with a Telegraph piece entitled «Is 12 Years a Slave Torture Porn for Guardian readers?

In this age of torture porn, ironic distance and daily real - world outrage, can cinema still offer up an authentically frightening experience?

Of course, the Saw franchise is now synonymous with torture porn, but Wan't first installment (the only one he directed) could certainly be considered brilliant.

I think that the original Last House is one of the first films that you could call «torture porn».

As part of the «torture porn» movement of horror, Saw spares no expense on severed limbs and buckets of blood.

The fact that it started the trend of torture porn is puzzling when you consider that the first film really isn't that gory, but it is what it is.

At first I thought we were dipping into Saw territory but there isn't «torture porn» in this movie.

During Dante's absence horror has seemingly returned to its generic no - man's - land with very few films having true screen merit, beyond a barrage of «torture porn».

A while back, at the height of the quagmire in Iraq, it was the so - called «torture porn» subgenre of horror, kicked off by «Saw» and brought to its gruesome, bloody pinnacle with Eli Roth's «Hostel» series.

While the movie doesn't quite earn the «torture porn» label first applied to Roth's original Hostel, López does not shy from making you cringe, with graphic mutilations and gang rape emerging from circumstance (e.g. an unreliable funicular) and ugly human nature, respectively.

Exploitation film, perhaps — or torture porn, depending on who you ask — by the end the film leaves its audience as battered as the pledges.

«Torture porn» may be the better description, a horror subgenre that came into prominence after the sleeper hit known as Saw, which emphasized (and exploited) both the emotional and physical agony of its characters to manipulate audience reaction.

Beneath the shock horror elements, torture porn mentality and horror movie clichés, Funny Games, a film about a couple and their young son held hostage by two sadistic and deceptively passive young men, is a dramatic rendition on the bloodthirsty, violence obsessed film audience.

There are myriad reasons why the term «torture porn» never made sense and one of the most important is the irrevocable impact Herschell Gordon Lewis's schlocky gore cinema had on American movies.

After a decade of torture porn, horror cinema is finally heading back to its roots: classic gothic fiction.

Yet the film doesn't devolve into torture porn or become a gorefest for the sake of the shock value.

Made on the wonderful jungle sets of King Kong while that epic's special effects were being finished, this is one of the great action - horror films and has provided a template for many «rich sicko» melodramas — the entire «torture porn» subgenre springs from the obsessions of its villain, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks).

Torture porn?

Instead of being known for his torture porn thriller, Saw, Insidious proved that Wan could take the haunted hou...

Audition held a key place of influence upon the decade that would follow, occupying (and varying) the vanguard of J - horror, while anticipating (and also outclassing) the whole «torture porn» subgenre (significantly, director Takashi Miike cameos in Hostel).

Viewed through the retrospective filter of both the US's Gitmo - ised» 2000s foreign policy and countless subsequent race - to - excess «torture porn» flicks, Audition's last reel might now seem a little tamer in its effect — but this just allows all that precedes it to come into sharper focus, revealing a film of two very distinct (and distinctly colour - coded) halves.

There is no gore whatsoever and only a little blood, though I suppose that isn't surprising, since Wan and Whannell have never tried to duplicate the torture porn genre they helped kick - start with Saw.

In the mid-2000s, when torture porn was at its peak, Darren Lynn Bousman was responsible for helming Saw II, III and IV, so that he occupied the dead centre of mainstream horror.

This is a man who spent over two hours turning Jesus» tale into torture porn the likes of Eli Roth and here he is at the feet of passivity and cheek - turning.

The last time we took any note of Roland Joffe, the director of «The Mission» and «The Killing Fields,» it was through his take on the ugly genre «torture porn» titled «Captivity» back in 2007.

Look, I say this as a huge fan of so - called «torture porn» horror movies: Stephen Sommers, you haven't earned the fucking right to use an image like that, or many of the other images used in this movie.

There's a new prologue that comes on like torture porn and takes a switchback turn: nice.