Well here is part 2 of my torture porn piece i hope you enjoy it.

Last time i talked about the basics of the torture porn genre and why i thought that it doesn’t exist i also gave a bit of evidence on how it all started etc and finally i even touched on the video nasty genre of the 70’s and 80’s and now it’s time to finish things off.

As said before during the 70’s and 80’s the video nasties were giving critics bad nightmares because they hadn’t seen any kind of movie like this so what the hell does the video nasty era have to do with the torture porn genre now well the video nasty was another genre made up by critics because they hadn’t a clue where to put these films because of there extreme nature and it’s just like the torture porn genre now, when something new happens in films this scares critics and they haven’t a clue what to do with them so like sheep as soon as they hear one critic calling it something they also adopt that genre and put ever movie like it into that pigeon hole instead of looking at it the way it should be.

By the 90’s the video nasty had left us and the genre died down because more and more people had heard of it and on the face of things these films weren’t as bad as they were set out to be.
The only other reason why it scared a lot of people was the introduction of the VCR but again by the 90’s a lot more people had a VCR so it was more easier for people to make there own minds up on these films instead of taking word from only a hand full of people.

If you looked at the start of the 21st century we had started with a new era of technology the DVD player that gave even more freedom for people to make there mind up about these films.
Now fast forward just a little to Halloween of 2004 and this is when the critics gave birth to the so called torture porn genre thanks to a little movie called SAW.
It was a very long time before saw that the critics had seen a movie of this nature and again like the video nasty of the 70’s and 80’s this scared them because they didn’t know where to fit it hence the made up genre of torture porn.

In the space of the next 4 years from the launch of the first saw films we would have three more sequels and a burst of movies along the same line with the hostel movies and the remake of the Texas chainsaw massacre being the stand out movies but like the saw films these were thrown straight into the torture porn category and weren’t given that much of a chance by anybody who had never heard of these films.
If you look around now it so much easier for people to make there minds up about these movies thanks to a few things that include DVD, a big boom in cinema and the Internet and it’s the last place were the minds are made up more easier as there are a lot of websites that can help people make up there minds including the fantastic Bloody-Disgusting.com.

So if these movies are not torture pron what are they well they can easily be put into the thriller/horror section but if you want a more easier place that these movies belong to well i think that most horror/thriller fans would be happy for these movies to be called EXTREME movies and at least then it would ditch the horrible notion that these were porn of any kind of nature and then it would give them a little bit more of respect.

Well that’s it for my torture pron piece i hope you enjoyed reading it and if you have any comments feel free to leave them and tell me what you thought.