Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw

List of Figures vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: ‘Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare’ 1 Part I ‘Torture Porn’ (Category) 1 ‘The Past Catches Up to Everyone’: Lineage and Nostalgia 13 2 ‘Bend to Our Objectives’: ‘Torture Porn’ as Press Discourse 27 3 ‘No-one Approves of What You’re Doing’: Fans and Filmmakers 40 Part II ‘Torture’ (Morality) Introduction 57 4 ‘Your Story’s Real, and People Feel That’: Contextualising Torture 63 5 ‘Some are Victims. Some are Predators. Some are Both’: Torturous Positions 82 6 ‘In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher Is King’: Torture, Spaces, and Power 101 Part III ‘Porn’ (Extremity) Introduction 123 7 ‘Ladies First’?: Torture Porn, Sex, and Misogyny 129 8 ‘Why Are You Crying? Aren’t You Having Fun?’: Extreme Porn 150 9 ‘You Will Not Believe Your Eyes ... or Stomach’: Hardcore Horror Conclusion: ‘Will You Continue?’: Beyond ‘Torture Porn’ 187 Notes 193 Bibliography 202 Filmography 217 Index 223