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Torture Porn
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Any work which gives heavy, focused attention to Cold-Blooded Torture and/or mutilation of someone. The point usually isn't to show how wrong it is, but to disgust the audience while also giving them some visceral thrills. Thus, works will give lots of details (whether written, verbal, or visual) of the torture. The term is usually associated with popular Horror Films from the 2000s; it was coined in 2006 by film critic David Edelstein to describe films like Hostel, Saw, The Devil's Rejects, and Wolf Creek. Horror of this ilk is also known as "sadistic horror". The genre struck a chord amidst the post-9/11 cultural climate of the Turn of the Millennium, when The War on Terror and the revelation of widespread abuses of captives at internment facilities like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay put torture at the forefront of public debate and became fodder for a generation of horror filmmakers. However, it can be found in older Exploitation Films, books, comics, plays, and more, as long as seeing or reading about people suffering slow, agonizing, torturous deaths is the point of the work. Not to be confused with hardcore BDSM (since the torture there is more playing around), nor finding torture to be attractive (although some suspect some of these films invoke that). However, with that in mind, some films have indeed combined graphic violence and pornography, and have thus become notorious for it. A Sister Trope to Gorn, Mutilation Interrogation (both of which it often overlaps with) and Cuckold (the emotional equivalent). Genres that more often than not center around this include Nazisploitation and Rape and Revenge. Not to be confused with the popular terminology for a work of fiction that focuses on humiliating and ridiculing a Butt-Monkey to a rather undeserving or at least excessive degree. |
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Reprise, the prequel to Hivefled, is explicitly described as torture porn by the author. Uhh, somewhat more literal than most examples, all things considered. | |
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Because Love Conquers All, where Luna and her husband, Scrivener Blooms, brutally torture Applejack and Rainbow Dash. In Dash's case, they brainwash him (yes, Dash is male in this story) into murdering Applejack. | |
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Tokyo Ghoul: The Manga subverts this when Yamori tortures Kaneki. While the physical torture isn't explicitly shown, it's very clear what Yamori is doing to him. The anime, however, plays it closer to straight, complete with raw, bloody toes, Kaneki's agonized screaming, and buckets of his blood. |
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Franken Fran: In one episode Fran (unknowingly) takes part in a torture porn movie. When she realizes what she took part in (and that it involved an actor playing her creator), she punishes the director appropriately. | |
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Episode 67 of Sonic X: Dark Chaos is this trope, inflicted on Chris and Cosmo. With emphasis on the "porn." | |
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Evil Dead (2013). Not only is the tone much Darker and Edgier than the campy, low-budget first film and its overtly comedic sequels, the gore has been amped up, and the main characters all start mutilating themselves as they are possessed by demons and turn into Deadites. | |
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Crossed, which has most of humanity being infected by a "rape-murder-insanity" virus. Of special note are the story-arcs Psychopath and Family Values. | |
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Friday the 13th (2009) updates the classic slasher killer Jason Voorhees for the 2000s by giving him elements of this trope. Now, the backwoods machete maniac is also a Crazy Survivalist who has filled the woods with booby traps and a hidden Tunnel Network. In the Prolonged Prologue, he roasts a girl alive in her sleeping bag while her boyfriend is Forced to Watch with his leg stuck in a bear trap (the damage shown in vivid detail), then he captures and imprisons the Final Girl from that scene for most of the rest of the movie. | |
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A Serbian Film made this trope literal, with the villains shooting a pornographic Snuff Film. It features such scenes as a woman having her teeth removed and then being suffocated to death via oral sex, a woman being decapitated while she's being sexually penetrated, a young boy being raped by his well-endowed father, and, most infamously, "newborn porn". Much like Salò, its trope page on this very wiki is locked to prevent it from just becoming a catalog of depravity. | |
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Averted for the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which was almost Bloodless Carnage. However, the Bloodier and Gorier sequels and remakes can count for this. | |
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Rivers of London: Tony Harden, from the first casefile of Detective Stories, decorated his flat with this kind of still life artwork in a deliberate attempt to desensitize himself to others' suffering. | |
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Pink Flamingos, the film to start with if you're interested in the work of John Waters, plays with this trope mockingly. One scene, one very long and uncomfortable scene, features a man having sex with a chicken (resulting in bloody lacerations for the nude gentleman and an onscreen death for the chicken), and another features what can best be described as "a heartwarming torture sequence wherein women are beaten in a basement and raped with a turkey baster, with the resulting babies being sold to lesbians." Thankfully, John Waters is parodying the True Crime genre, so it's usually meant to be (disturbingly) funny. | |
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clipping.'s song "The Show", from their horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood, was inspired by mid-2000s torture porn movies. It's an extremely graphic lyrical depiction of a person's torture and eventual death being live-streamed over the Dark Web. | |
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The French film Martyrs (which a lot seem to categorize as "too good to be mere torture porn") starts as a bloody revenge flick on a seemingly normal family, devolves into humiliation torture, and ends with the martyr being graphically skinned alive, left to hang that way, and her long-sought otherworldly revelations driving her captor to suicide. | |
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Holidays: Halloween has three cam girls who were abused by their pimp Ian making him emasculate himself (offscreen, thankfully). The brief shot in Christmas of Sarah sawing away at her boss Ed with an electric knife also counts. |
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I Spit on Your Grave, probably the most infamous Rape and Revenge movie of all time. Not so much the original film, save for the horrifying rape scene, but the revenge portion of the remake definitely falls into this. Most of Katie's revenges in the sequel also qualify, one of which involves a lengthy session with a cattle prod applied to one rapist's groin in revenge for him having done the same to her prior to his rape of her. | |
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When his adaptation of the manga Ichi the Killer premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, barf bags were distributed to the patrons, and at least one person actually had to use theirs. | |
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Supernatural: The show features both its protagonists and many of its villains being tortured, and sometimes torturing, regularly. Sometimes it's done subtly but other times, it pushes the television envelop. There is a brief but intense scene of Dean in Hell at the end of season three. He is bleeding, battered, crying out for his brother and he is hanging from hooks that you can see have pierced through his shoulder. The show features two separate scenes of female demons being sexually tortured, with knives, in ways that were deeply uncomfortable for viewers. In happens to Ruby in Season 4 and Meg in Season 6. Crowley tortures an innocent angel named Samadriel very gruesomely. In early Season 12, The British Men of Letters torture Sam, for several episodes. |
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There's a reason that Jack Bauer from 24 has a trope named after him. The ways in which he acquires information from his prisoners - and how these ways are both shown and described - fall about as close to this category as one can get on network television. | |
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Captivity. Even before its release, it became notorious for an incredibly tasteless marketing campaign that nakedly appealed to people who might want to watch a real-life snuff film, and led Joss Whedon and Jill Soloway to campaign for the film to be re-rated. Its critical and commercial failure ended up killing off the genre in mainstream cinema releases, and did lasting damage to the careers of both its star Elisha Cuthbert and director Roland Joffe. The film itself is so obsessed with its own premise that it gives pause to wonder if actually is torture porn in the literal sense. | |
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The two first films from The Guinea Pig Collection, Devil's Experiment and Flower Of Flesh and Blood, the latter of which was mistaken for a real Snuff Film by Charlie Sheen. | |
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House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie feature a backwoods clan of deranged serial killers who commit various physical, sexual, and psychological tortures on their innocent victims. The sequel The Devil's Rejects flips it around and turns the killers into Villain Protagonists, now on the run from the law after the events of the first movie, with a vindictive sheriff eventually torturing them in kind as revenge for their killing his deputy brother. | |
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Unthinkable: Nuclear bombs are set to go off, and it's up to Samuel L. Jackson to torture their whereabouts out of the man who planted them. | |
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Wolf Creek is something of an Unbuilt Trope in that most of the torture has either already happened or happens off-screen, and the suspense comes from what Mick Taylor might do. When characters meet their ends, it's through rather mundane means. | |
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Redo of Healer is filled with Gratuitous Rape and subsequent Karmic Rape crossed with Cold-Blooded Torture as well as Protagonist-Centered Morality, with the superfluous darkness in an already Dark Fantasy setting leading many audience members to utter the Eight Deadly Words. | |
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Inglourious Basterds. While most of Quentin Tarantino's works veer more towards Gorn and Exploitation Film than Torture Porn, this film features a fair amount of lovingly depicted torture inflicted mostly on Nazis. Several Nazi soldiers have swastikas carved onto their foreheads with a Bowie knife, one officer is psychologically tortured before having his head crushed with a baseball bat, and a character sticks his finger into a bullethole in a woman's leg, among other examples. | |
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Turistas, in which American tourists in Brazil are kidnapped by criminals running an organ harvesting/smuggling ring. | |
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The Cinema Snob reviews some of these films, and even admits the term was just made up by snobs like him so they could look down on modern horror movies (not that he thinks highly of many older horror films). | |
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Sick Girl, which has what is possibly the most disturbing girl on girl rape scene ever. | |
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Videodrome: Subverted in-universe. When Max first sees the pirated Videodrome transmission, he thinks that it's the most realistic torture exploitation he's ever seen, which is exactly what he thinks his channel's viewers will want. Only later does he realize that Videodrome's 'actors' don't ever return and is a real Snuff Film operation. Special mention goes to the copious amounts of Body Horror that has made David Cronenberg a household name. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who dives into this trope on occasion. The episodes "Spare Parts", "Jubilee", "Scherzo","The Creed Of The Kromon" and "The Natural History Of Fear" (the last three of which follow each other directly) immediately come to mind. The Fifth Doctor is a frequent recipient of torture in Big Finish in general, to the point where it hardly even fazes him anymore. His very first episode had him breaking his leg, being strapped into a torture device and screaming in agony in the background for an entire scene while Seven and Six calmly discussed how to save the day. |
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Law Abiding Citizen has, as one of its most famous scenes, Gerard Butler's character Clyde Sheldon strapping Clarence Darby, the man who murdered his wife and daughter, to an operating table after injecting him with a paralyzing tetrodotoxin and describing to him, in graphic detail, all of the ways in which he is going to dismember and torture him to death. All the while, a large mirror hangs over the operating table with a picture of Clyde's family taped to it so that Darby is Forced to Watch as he's tortured to death, with his eyelids cut off so he can't look away and adrenaline being injected into his veins so he doesn't pass out. We don't see much of the actual torture beyond Butler taking a buzzsaw to Darby's leg, but the police do find what is left of him later. | |
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The Green Inferno, his Genre Throwback to '70s/'80s jungle cannibal movies. | |
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Goodbye Uncle Tom, an Italian Mondo film that provides an extensive catalogue of the horrors of slavery in the United States and practically revels in the exploitation, humiliation, and torture. | |
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man crosses into this as you see the Salaryman's life spiral rapidly down the drain as his body transforms into a mass of scrap metal and machinery, aided by the stalking and abuse of the so-called Metal Fetishist. | |
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Carver, which is about a hillbilly Snuff Film maker prone to mutilating some of his victims through means that include pliers to the balls, or a nail hammered into a bodypart, then wrenched out and hammered in again. | |
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Discussed and mocked in Scream 4, where one character is complaining about her friend being obsessed with Torture Porn. The film was released when the genre was beginning to die out. | |
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The Punisher MAX one-shot Naked Kill has Frank taking on a company creating Snuff Films. | |
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The notorious The Lord of the Rings fanfic Celebrian, which speculates on what the Orcs may have done to Celebrian to traumatise her so much in unbelievably obsessive and physically-implausible detail. It's commonly used as a challenge fic to see how much you can read in one sitting before, depending on your level of sensitivity, being squicked out or bored into submission. | |
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Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), an infamous fanfic about Pinkie Pie torturing and killing Rainbow Dash, helped popularize this trend. Most of the below-listed MLP fics were arguably inspired, at least in part, by Cupcakes. | |
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Hostel and its sequels, in which tourists (in Eastern Europe in the first two films, in Las Vegas in the third) are kidnapped to be tortured to death by rich sadists. The franchise has become so successful that it became the Trope Namer for the entire genre. | |
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His Masters of Horror episode "Imprint" was never shown on television in the US and was saved for the DVD release, with even the show's creator Mick Garris saying he was disturbed by it. Keep in mind that the show aired on the premium cable network Showtime, not known for squeamishness. | |
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Oedipus the King has Oedipus emerge having learnt of what he's done, now having gouged out his own eyes. Medea features an extremely graphic description of what happened when Glauce put on a dress covered in highly acidic poison, and when her father hugged her body with this skin-dissolving venom still in effect. | |
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Megan is Missing turns into this once the viewer learns what happened to Megan, especially after Amy is kidnapped, raped, tortured, and eventually killed by Josh. The film itself is so disturbing that a public warning about its potentially traumatizing content was released by its director. | |
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Audition starts out as a Romantic Comedy, onto to rapidly, and disturbingly, transition into this trope when Asami's true nature is revealed, as she kidnaps and mutilates boyfriends of hers who she felt had failed her as lovers. This very wiki's page for that film describes it as a movie that "makes you wonder about the mental health of the director." | |
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The Last House on the Left: Most of its drama comes in the form of the torture and rape of two young women. But it then twists it around so that when the parents discover what has happened to their daughter - they take their revenge. | |
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Parodied in The Multiversity, in which the mass villainous team-up of all the alternate versions of Dr. Sivana includes a Darker and Edgier "depraved serial killer" Sivana. He wears a Hannibal Lector mask, and his constant brandishing of rusty surgical instruments and ranting about how he wants to torture the young Marvels to death creeps the other Sivanas out. | |
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The Final is a teen horror version inspired by real-life school shootings. A group of teen outcasts stage a costume party for the popular kids who bully them in school, whereupon they drug them, chain them up, and torture them one by one while the rest are Forced to Watch, all while filming it on webcams to send their message to the world. Notably, they don't plan on actually killing anyone, but want to leave their victims alive so that they're forced to live with their trauma and disfigurement. | |
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And of course, Saw has itself received a video game adaptation. Two of them, in fact. | |
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His directorial debut Cabin Fever is structured like a Slasher Movie, but instead of a person or monster killing the horny teenagers, it's a waterborne illness that slowly eats their flesh and leaves them in agony wishing for the quick mercy that a normal backwoods stalker would bring. | |
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The Human Centipede trilogy combines this with Body Horror. The worst stuff was merely alluded to in the first film, though the second one went out of its way to show it in full, gory, scatological detail, before plunging straight into Self-Parody with the third installment. | |
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Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons often dips into this, with lovingly-detailed first person narrated scenes of torture, mutilation, rape, and Body Horror. | |
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Untraceable: A website called Kill With Me is set up in which people are subjected to brutal Saw-style deaths on a live stream, the pace of their deaths speeding up as more people watch. Special mention goes to the man whose flesh is dissolved in battery acid. | |
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Cheerilee's Garden takes this to disturbingly graphic levels. Sixteen times. | |
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While the first film is actually fairly light on explicit gore (and was more of a straight serial-killer story along the lines of Se7en than a straight example of this genre), the sequels (especially from the third one on) most certainly aren't, and the series as a whole is the Trope Codifier for the genre. Its twist on the formula is that its villain, the Jigsaw killer, makes use of elaborate Death Traps to kill his victims as punishment for their moral failings, while always giving them the ability to escape the trap with their lives by making a painful Life-or-Limb Decision. This made the deaths into massive set pieces beyond just simple stabbings, with entire rooms turned into mechanical torture chambers and the people placed within them forced to mutilate themselves to survive and escape. | |
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A group of people are captured and forced to mutilate themselves in order to produce endorphins in Vile. | |
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The base-breaking Six Feet Under episode "That's My Dog", in which David is kidnapped, sexually-assaulted, tortured and nearly killed by a psychopathic hitch-hiker. | |
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In found., Marty and his friend David watch a '70s Slasher Movie called Headless (which the filmmakers later defictionalized) that his brother Steve stole from the video store, which is comprised largely of scenes of a killer in a skull mask torturing tied-up women to death in a gratuitous, highly sexualized manner before defiling their corpses, all of it shown in such graphic detail that the British and Australian cuts of found. had to censor most of it. Steve left a note in the videotape's box marking the times at which each of the film's kills takes place. David is impressed by the gore effects but disappointed by the lack of a plot, while Marty, who at this point knows that Steve is a Serial Killer, keeps picturing him as the killer and can't help but wonder if he took inspiration from this film. | |
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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, the Trope Codifier for Nazisploitation, has as its Villain Protagonist a sexy yet depraved Kommandant at a Nazi concentration camp who rapes and castrates male prisoners who fail to satisfy her sexual appetite, and conducts medical experiments on the female prisoners in order to prove that women, with their higher pain tolerance, would make better soldiers than men. | |
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The Punisher (THQ) (another Garth Ennis story) is rife with The Joys of Torturing Mooks, as The Punisher is able to inflict a litany of Cruel and Unusual Deaths on mobsters including shoving a man into a Conveyor Belt o' Doom crotch-first, feeding a thug to a Wood Chipper of Doom, or firing a nail gun into a goon's eyes. The game was initially going to be even gorier, but the studio wanted to avoid an AO rating in order to port it to consoles and toned the violence down a bit. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, particularly the brony community, is notorious for producing dark fics that dive straight into this trope. Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), an infamous fanfic about Pinkie Pie torturing and killing Rainbow Dash, helped popularize this trend. Most of the below-listed MLP fics were arguably inspired, at least in part, by Cupcakes. Pages Of Harmony is made of this trope. Cheerilee's Garden takes this to disturbingly graphic levels. Sixteen times. Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons often dips into this, with lovingly-detailed first person narrated scenes of torture, mutilation, rape, and Body Horror. Because Love Conquers All, where Luna and her husband, Scrivener Blooms, brutally torture Applejack and Rainbow Dash. In Dash's case, they brainwash him (yes, Dash is male in this story) into murdering Applejack. |
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Doctor Who remains fairly tame, but considering it was aimed at children: "The Sontaran Experiment" is pretty grim on-screen, being about a particularly depraved Sontaran torturing captive humans in "experiments" to determine their vulnerabilities, but jumped straight into this in the novelisation. Due to the shortness of the story, it was padded out with lots and lots of torture scenes that are irrelevant to the plot. "The Deadly Assassin" had quite a lot of torture scenes. The story "Vengeance on Varos", which is set in a depraved far-future society which tortures and kills its rebels in inventive ways on live TV, and exports the videos to other worlds as Snuff Films. Depending on your view it is either a prescient satire on the genre or an early, ugly example. |
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Nekromantik, which features several people being killed by a necrophiliac and includes a graphic, real scene of a rabbit being killed and skinned. And that's not even half of the horror. | |
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Some of the scenes in Survival of the Fittest can fall into this, particularly in earlier versions. In more recent history, handlers have been attempting to avert this due to both realism and good taste. However, you still get moments where Gorn conspicuously comes up in a manner similar to this trope. | |
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Hatred was a Spiritual Successor to Postal, and was infamous for being one of the few video games in history besides Manhunt 2 below to receive an Adults Only Rating (ESRB) purely for violent content. The civilians are all Made of Plasticine, allowing for ridiculous amounts of gorn as The Antagonist is perfectly capable of smashing a victim's head in with one clean stomp with his boot, or completely erasing heads with a shotgun. One of the executions involves grabbing your victim and stabbing them repeatedly in the groin. | |
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The first issue of the Hack/Slash ongoing series had Cassie being captured and mutilated by a torture porn-inspired slasher named Doctor Gross. | |
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Pages Of Harmony is made of this trope. | |
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Happy Tree Friends combines this with Subverted Kids' Show hard. Bones are broken, eyes are cut or ripped out and squished, almost everybody has had all of their skin peeled off at least once, and it's all animated with bright, cheerful colors. | |
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The Collector (2009) is about a masked Serial Killer who breaks into people's homes, fills them with Death Traps, and brutally tortures them to death before kidnapping one survivor to make a part of his "collection". The sequel The Collection shows what happens to those "lucky" survivors: the Collector tortures them further, but with the intention of keeping them alive in a manner that drives them into feral madness, leaving them in a zombie-like state where they violently attack anybody they encounter. When they do finally die, he mutilates their corpses, rearranging their body parts to make them into twisted, arachnid-like "sculptures". | |
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, based on an infamous novel by the Marquis de Sade. Updating the plot of the novel from 18th century France to the closing days of World War II, its Villain Protagonists are four fascist libertines (along with assorted collaborators) who, knowing that their days are numbered as the Allies close in, kidnap eighteen teenagers from nearby villages and make them unwilling participants in the most depraved sex party imaginable. It is often considered an early example of this genre, and a nasty enough one that it was banned in numerous countries and its page on this very wiki (which calls it "the single most vile, most depraved, most despicable, most infamous and most controversial film of all time") is locked to prevent the trope list from getting too lurid, as is that for its source material. | |
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Cannibal Holocaust contained scenes that were believable enough, at the time, to result in the arrest of the director, foreshadowing Charlie Sheen's snuff film fears by about twenty years. Includes rape with a foreign object followed by bludgeoning of the victim, dissection, cannibalism (of course), and an incredibly well-designed impalement scene which still is occasionally posted online as a real occurrence. To make it worse, all the animals that died in the movie were actually killed, leading to the "No Animals Were Harmed In the Making of this Film" disclaimer at the end of every movie; and the director made all the cast sign contracts to keep out of public sight and take no new work for a year to help sell the illusion that the film was genuine; the director in fact had to bring the actors onto a talk show to prove that he hadn't actually killed them during filming. | |
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American Mary is about a medical student who becomes a Back-Alley Doctor specializing in extreme body modification to pay the bills, and later a Mad Doctor after she gets raped by her professor Dr. Grant. She kidnaps him and uses him to "practice" a number of procedures that she happily lists for him, including "tongue splitting, implants (sometimes referred to as 3D implants), teeth filing, genital modification, and voluntary amputation." While we don't see the fourteen-hour surgery session she subjects him to, we do see what's left of him afterwards, a limbless, mute head and torso hanging from hooks who she then photographs for her portfolio as a body modification surgeon. | |
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One of the earliest films to get this reputation was Witchfinder General, which was very loosely based on actual incidents of seventeenth-century witch-hunting in East Anglia and paid unusual attention for the time to the detailed torture and execution of victims. It went on to inspire a number of more gratuitous imitators, such as Mark of the Devil and The Bloody Judge (which star Christopher Lee, who repeatedly butted heads with the director over the unsavory content, refused to watch after it was finished). | |
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In the backstory of Horizon Zero Dawn, Travis Tate, the Alpha in charge of programming the HADES subfunction of GAIA, had a taste for such movies. One datapoint mentions how he tried to submit "265 'holographic re-masters' of 'acknowledged classics of extreme exploitation cinema'", including "all sixteen(!) installments of 'Making a Millipede'", for addition to APOLLO, the repository of human knowledge. His request was angrily denied by Samina Ebadji, the Alpha in charge of APOLLO, who explicitly told him that she regarded those films as obscene and took pleasure in knowing that they would be lost to history. She also says that, by contrast, the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini have been accepted for preservation, because It's Not Porn, It's Art. However, since Ted Faro ultimately deleted APOLLO out of a mix of Ludd Was Right, Sanity Slippage, and an attempt to keep the future from learning that it was he who doomed the world, it's ultimately a moot point. | |
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The first Manhunt game is a slight subversion, as it revolves around a Snuff Film ring, and even the worst executions are relatively quick and clean compared to usual Torture Porn. The second game, which takes inspiration from most of the Slasher Movie genre, takes this trope, and runs with it to the endzone, with the "Violent", "Gruesome", and "Environmental" kills all out to inflict as much pain on the helpless victim as possible before killing them. This is also clearly invoked in the "Sexual Deviants" level, which takes place in BDSM club "Dungeon" that is one giant homage to Hostel. | |
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Detention parodies the genre with the Film Within a Film Cinderhella II: Beauty Scream, which can be roughly described as a teen slasher version of Saw, complete with that series' ridiculous traps and a killer with a similar moralistic attitude. The titular killer forces a teenage girl to dig a red slipper out of her abdomen within two minutes as punishment for having premarital sex, lest her head be blown up with an assortment of buzzsaws and drills. Sloan, a cheerleader from 1992 who's stuck in her daughter Ione's body (long story), is absolutely blown away by the film and how different it is from the slashers she grew up with. | |
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The Loved Ones, in which a teenage girl and her father kidnap the boy she has a crush on and then torture him in a twisted parody of the senior prom. It starts with them injecting bleach into his vocal cords so that he can't scream for help, all the while taunting him with a chant of "WE CAN'T HEAR YOU!". | |
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A few of the more violent and detailed creepypastas can venture into this, and a lot of the poorly-written ones tend to ignore biology hard enough to even cross back over into Nightmare Retardant. | |
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Carrie (2013) incorporates a lot of this into the prom scene massacre. The first two adaptations gave Carrie Adaptational Heroism and suggested she'd lost control of her powers somewhat (the 2002 film outright having her go into a trance where she can't remember anything of what she's done). Here however, Carrie targets her tormentors individually (the deaths in the other films were more accidents brought on by the escalating chaos) - notably crushing Jackie in the bleachers, whipping Tina with electrical cords until she burns up, and holding Nicki and Lizzy on the floor while everyone tramples them to death. This is actually closer to the original book - where Carrie's revenge was 100% premeditated. | |
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The Saw films. While the first film is actually fairly light on explicit gore (and was more of a straight serial-killer story along the lines of Se7en than a straight example of this genre), the sequels (especially from the third one on) most certainly aren't, and the series as a whole is the Trope Codifier for the genre. Its twist on the formula is that its villain, the Jigsaw killer, makes use of elaborate Death Traps to kill his victims as punishment for their moral failings, while always giving them the ability to escape the trap with their lives by making a painful Life-or-Limb Decision. This made the deaths into massive set pieces beyond just simple stabbings, with entire rooms turned into mechanical torture chambers and the people placed within them forced to mutilate themselves to survive and escape. Ironically, the third film had an aversion of the literal meaning of this trope. In one of the traps, a woman in a room-sized freezer is sprayed with ice-cold water, and will freeze to death unless the protagonist can reach the key to her escape. The woman was to be fully clothed in the original version, but the director chose to have her naked instead — not to make the scene sexier, but to make it less sexualized and avoid a wet T-shirt scene. |
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The "fucked up fondue" scene in Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, along with a few other instances, like death via electroshock, and dismemberment on a makeshift, barbed wire rack. | |
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Finnish indie RPG Fear & Hunger and its sequel Fear & Hunger: Termina are Dark Fantasy Survival Horror games with a heavy focus on graphic depictions of gore, nudity, and sexual violence in addition to being Nintendo Hard. One popular Steam review for the first one best sums up the experience as "Berserk but you are a side character, the game". The creator, Miro Haverinen, made the first game as part of his university thesis and declared his intent to "create as oppressive and frightening an atmosphere as possible". | |
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