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Post by Reynard on Oct 9, 2020 20:50:51 GMT
I haven't seen any Hostel movies, so can't tell about them. "Torture porn" means movies that use realistic, graphic violence, especially torturing, as their major selling pitch. Of course this kind of cinema has existed since the 70s, but the term was coined only after French 2003 movie Haute Tension (High Tension), which gained a lot of attention and became a decent hit. More French movies of similar nature soon followed. Saw I guess was the first modern US film of this kind, though if I remember correctly it wasn't until Saw III (??) that they were openly advertised with those "so violent that people fainted at the premiere" etc kind of "news". Some Eli Roth films/productions belong to the genre or at least are close to it, though his style is more darkly humorous. The genre has fallen into very low budget straight-to-blu category now that the trend has pretty much died. People just lost interest, since they tend to be very repetitive. Incident in a Ghostland from few years back gained some attention but I don't see this genre making a big comeback any time soon. Yes, sadly the new wave French horror movement died a pretty quick death. Incident in a Ghostland was pretty good though. Extreme horror has definitely gone further underground in the last ten years. You can find it if you look for it, but it is all indie and lower budget now. Extreme horror seems to come and go. Before the French torture porn boom, back in mid-90s, people were into Japanese extreme horror like Evil Dead Trap, the Guinea Pig series, All Night Long and so on. Before that it was Buttgereit and some German similar underground cinema. None of these trends held peoples interest for long. I guess the audience got much smaller because a lot of people with interest towards "dark" and "extreme" things simply grow out of them, while those who are seriously dedicated probably end up with real life execution videos and such, and lose interest in fake footage. Certainly modern internet has more than enough "gore kids" to upload this kind of stuff, whether or not anyone's asking for them. No one has to buy a DVD or a Blu unless they want to, so there's much less money involved now.
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