Theme: Torture Porn

Torture Porn was a term coined in 2005 after the success of films like Saw (2004) and Hostel (2005) to refer to a fad for films featuring scenes of Sadism and Torture pushed to an extreme.

Both Saw and Hostel spawned sequels and a brief fad for imitators. In these, a group of people were imprisoned and usually forced to undergo cruelties or make brutal life and death decisions, resulting in their torture and deaths. The selling point of the film would be these tortures shown in grisly detail.