Line #84 Main/TorturePorn


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3	->''"In her absolutely splendid novel'' Literature/AlifTheUnseen'', Creator/GWillowWilson has a character ask whether a given book counts as eastern literature. In reply, Vikram the Vampire says, "There is a very simple test. Is it about bored, tired people having sex?" When the character confirms that the book does, Vikram proclaims it western literature. It's terribly clever, but omits a key subgenre: bored, tired people being terribly violent."''
4	-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/08/outside-government-combat.html El Sandifer]]'''
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6	Any work which gives heavy, focused attention to ColdBloodedTorture 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 [[ToThePain written, verbal]], or [[{{Gorn}} visual]]) of the torture.
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8	The term is usually associated with popular HorrorFilms from the 2000s; it was [[TropeNamers coined]] in 2006 by film critic David Edelstein to [[http://nymag.com/movies/features/15622/ describe]] films like ''Film/{{Hostel}}'', ''[[Film/SawI Saw]]'', ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'', and ''Film/WolfCreek''. Horror of this ilk is also known as "sadistic horror".
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10	The genre struck a chord amidst the post-9/11 cultural climate of the TurnOfTheMillennium, when UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and the revelation of widespread [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques 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 Film}}s, books, comics, plays, and more, as long as seeing or reading about people suffering slow, agonizing, torturous deaths is the point of the work.
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12	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.
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14	A SisterTrope to {{Gorn}}, MutilationInterrogation (both of which it often overlaps with) and {{Cuckold}} (the emotional equivalent). Genres that more often than not center around this include {{Nazisploitation}} and RapeAndRevenge.
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16	Not to be confused with the popular terminology for a work of fiction that focuses on humiliating and ridiculing a ButtMonkey [[DesignatedMonkey to a rather undeserving or at least excessive degree]].
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24	* The genre is parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwviHqr20y4 a commercial]] for Woolite fabric softener directed by Music/RobZombie.
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28	* ''Manga/FrankenFran'': 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.
29	* ''Anime/RedoOfHealer'' is filled with GratuitousRape and subsequent KarmicRape crossed with ColdBloodedTorture as well as ProtagonistCenteredMorality, with the [[TooBleakStoppedCaring superfluous darkness in an already]] DarkFantasy setting leading many audience members to utter the EightDeadlyWords.
30	* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
31	** The Manga subverts this when [[spoiler: Yamori tortures Kaneki]]. While the physical torture isn't explicitly shown, it's very clear what Yamori is doing to him.
32	** The anime, however, plays it closer to straight, complete with raw, bloody toes, [[spoiler: Kaneki's]] agonized screaming, and buckets of his blood.
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36	* ''ComicBook/{{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''.
37	* The first issue of the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' ongoing series had Cassie being captured and mutilated by a torture porn-inspired slasher named Doctor Gross.
38	* Parodied in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', in which the mass villainous team-up of all the alternate versions of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Dr. Sivana]] includes a DarkerAndEdgier "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 [[EvenEvilHasStandards creeps the other Sivanas out]].
39	* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' one-shot ''Naked Kill'' has Frank taking on a company creating {{Snuff Film}}s.
40	--> '''The Punisher:''' Another day, another nest of scumbags. Got a street tip about a bunch of mooks on the distribution end of a torture porn ring. Real torture. Nothing Hollywood about it. Sure enough, bunch of jerkoffs watching women get beaten. Raped... Ruined. Makes me embarrassed to even have a dick.
41	* ''ComicBook/RiversOfLondon'': 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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45	* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom, particularly the brony community, is notorious for producing {{dark fic}}s that dive straight into this trope.
46	** ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'', 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''.
47	** ''FanFic/PagesOfHarmony'' is made of this trope.
48	** ''FanFic/CheerileesGarden'' takes this to disturbingly graphic levels. [[spoiler: Sixteen times]].
49	** ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' often dips into this, with lovingly-detailed first person narrated scenes of torture, mutilation, rape, and BodyHorror.
50	** ''[[FanFic/BloomingMoonChronicles Because Love Conquers All]]'', where Luna and her husband, [[OriginalCharacter 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.
51	* ''Reprise'', the prequel to ''{{Fanfic/Hivefled}}'', is explicitly described as torture porn by the author. Uhh, somewhat more literal than most examples, [[RapeAsDrama all]] [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence things]] [[VillainousIncest considered]].
52	* The notorious ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' 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 [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out or [[IkeaErotica bored]] into submission.
53	* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6456401/12/Rise-Against Chapter 12 of Rise Against]] dips into this, spending most of its time as a graphic torture scene. As for who's being tortured? [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]]. Also, [[DarkFic the fic]] is currently on hiatus, and that's the most recently posted chapter.
54	* Episode 67 of ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' is this trope, inflicted on Chris and Cosmo. [[{{Squick}} With emphasis]] [[BrainBleach on the "porn."]]
55	* A series of stories featuring heavy scenes of torture written by The Dark Ranger and posted to Usenet in the 1990's.
56	** ''Agony In Pink'' featuring the torture, rape and mutilation [[spoiler: and death by torture]] of Kimberly, the Pink Ranger, by Lord Zedd and Tortura, a specially created Main/TortureTechnician in The Power Rangers universe. This one was bad enough to single-handedly spark a moral panic over online pornography in Australia.
57	** ''Agony In Pink 2 - A New Ending'' another Power Rangers fic featuring the torture, rape, mutilation [[spoiler: and death by torture]] of Kimberly the Pink Ranger by Rita, Lord Zedd [[spoiler: and her friend Kat]].
58	** ''Agony In Yellow'' featuring the torture and mutilation of Ashley, the Yellow Ranger by Astronema of The Power Rangers universe. [[spoiler: Her friends put out of her misery through a Main/MercyKill. ]]
59	** ''Suffering Scully'' featuring the interrogation, torture and rape of Dana Scully from the X-Files universe. [[spoiler: In the story she is broken through the use of Main/ElectricTorture]].
60	** ''Interrogation of Leia'' featuring the interrogation, rape, torture, mutilation [[spoiler: and death by torture]] of Princess Leia by Darth Vader and General Largo in the Star Wars universe. [[spoiler: She is broken early in the story through the use of a dentist's drill.]]
61	** ''Holly's Home Invasion'' featuring the home invasion and torture of a woman by a gang of women.
62	* Chapter 55 of ''[[https://my.w.tt/CtJKFlae0U In The Dark]]'' doesn't hold back on what [[Music/MelanieC Melanie]] was put through, causing her [[Music/SpiceGirls her bandmates]] to break down while the rest just had the MassOhCrap look. Add to what Otis Darwin informs Melanie of her fate, it's pretty much nightmare Fuel.
63	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9869044/1/The-Greatest-Betrayal The Greatest Betrayal]]'' -- A Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fiction with scenes of indescribable horror averaging at more than once a chapter. It's a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog, and the torture ranges from waterboarding, to rape, to beating people half-to-death with broom handles, to at least one character being stabbed to death and then being chopped into their component organs, as well as weird psychological stuff. And when all else fails, the writer is all up for torturing Shadow too. Amazingly there is a plot.
64	* ''Girls (Scream) Aloud'', in which the members of Music/GirlsAloud are kidnapped, raped, dismembered, and murdered by their tour bus driver, who then sells their embalmed body parts on [=eBay=] with video recordings of what he did. Its graphic content caused such a furor in the British press that its author faced [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Walker obscenity charges]] in a trial that sparked debates over online censorship, and while the case was [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/04/girls-scream-aloud-obscenity-laws ultimately dropped]], the original fic remains difficult to find to this day outside of {{MST}} readings.
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68	* ''Film/AmericanMary'' is about a medical student who becomes a BackAlleyDoctor specializing in extreme body modification to pay the bills, and later a MadDoctor after [[spoiler:she gets raped by her professor Dr. Grant]]. She kidnaps him and uses him to "practice" a number of procedures that [[ToThePain she happily lists for him]], including "[[TongueTrauma tongue splitting]], implants (sometimes referred to as [=3D=] implants), [[TheToothHurts teeth filing]], [[GroinAttack genital modification]], and [[AnArmAndALeg voluntary amputation]]." While we [[NothingIsScarier don't see]] the fourteen-hour surgery session she subjects him to, we do see what's left of him afterwards, a limbless, [[AndIMustScream mute]] head and torso hanging from hooks who she then photographs for her portfolio as a body modification surgeon.
69	* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' contained scenes that were believable enough, at the time, to result in the arrest of the director, foreshadowing Creator/CharlieSheen's snuff film fears by about twenty years. Includes [[spoiler: rape with a foreign object followed by bludgeoning of the victim]], dissection, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] (of course), and an incredibly well-designed [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice 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.
70	* ''Film/{{Captivity}}''. Even before its release, it became notorious for an [[http://web.archive.org/web/20081208024154/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/18/local/me-lopez18 incredibly tasteless marketing campaign]] that nakedly appealed to people who might want to watch a real-life snuff film, and led Creator/JossWhedon and Jill Soloway to campaign for the film to be re-rated. Its critical and commercial failure ended up [[GenreKiller killing off the genre]] in mainstream cinema releases, and did lasting damage to the careers of both its [[StarDerailingRole star]] Creator/ElishaCuthbert and [[CreatorKiller 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.
71	* ''{{Film/Carrie 2013}}'' incorporates a lot of this into the prom scene massacre. The first two adaptations gave Carrie AdaptationalHeroism 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.
72	* ''Film/{{Carver}}'', which is about a hillbilly SnuffFilm 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.
73	* ''Film/TheCollector2009'' is about a masked SerialKiller who breaks into people's homes, fills them with {{Death Trap}}s, 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 [[CruelMercy "lucky" survivors]]: the Collector tortures them further, but with the intention of keeping them alive in a manner that [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil 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 [[BodyHorror twisted, arachnid-like "sculptures"]].
74	* ''Film/{{Detention}}'' parodies the genre with the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC4vJhgJSq0 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 [[SexSignalsDeath having premarital sex]], lest her head be blown up with an assortment of buzzsaws and drills. Sloan, a cheerleader [[FishOutOfTemporalWater from 1992]] who's [[FreakyFridayFlip stuck in her daughter Ione's body]] ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), is absolutely blown away by the film and how different it is from the slashers she grew up with.
75	* ''Film/EvilDead2013''. Not only is the tone much DarkerAndEdgier than the campy, low-budget [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 first film]] and its overtly [[Film/EvilDead2 comedic]] [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness 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.
76	* ''Film/TheFinal'' is a TeenHorror version inspired by real-life school shootings. A group of teen outcasts [[NastyParty 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 ForcedToWatch, 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 [[CruelMercy leave their victims alive]] so that they're forced to live with their trauma and disfigurement.
77	* In ''Film/{{Found}}'', Marty and his friend David watch a '70s SlasherMovie called ''Headless'' (which the filmmakers [[Film/{{Headless}} 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 [[{{Bowdlerise}} 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 SerialKiller, keeps picturing him as the killer and can't help but wonder if he took inspiration from this film.
78	* ''Film/FridayThe13th2009'' updates the classic slasher killer [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] for the 2000s by giving him elements of this trope. Now, the backwoods machete maniac is also a CrazySurvivalist who has filled the woods with booby traps and a hidden TunnelNetwork. In the ProlongedPrologue, he roasts a girl alive in her sleeping bag while her boyfriend is ForcedToWatch with his leg stuck in a bear trap (the damage shown in [[{{Gorn}} vivid detail]]), then he captures and imprisons the FinalGirl from that scene for most of the rest of the movie.
79	* Many of Creator/LucioFulci's films, especially ''Film/TheNewYorkRipper'', where a stripper is killed by having a broken bottle ground into her crotch.
80	* Creator/MelGibson got this kind of reputation through his movies ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' and ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'', which both featured prolonged and graphic scenes of torture, punishment and human sacrifice. Critics of the former often nicknamed it ''"The UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Chainsaw Massacre]]''" for its extreme violence. Some touch on the "Porn" aspect of "Torture Porn" as well regarding ''Passion'', with David Edelstein (the {{Trope Namer\|s}}) calling it tantamount to a SnuffFilm and Creator/StephenKing arguing that its violence is taken to a fetishistic level.
81	* ''Film/GoodbyeUncleTom'', 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.
82	* The two first films from ''The Guinea Pig Collection'', ''[[Film/GuineaPigDevilsExperiment Devil's Experiment]]'' and ''Flower Of Flesh and Blood'', the latter of which was mistaken for a real SnuffFilm by Creator/CharlieSheen.
83	* The ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' films, which feature the hedonistic, extremely sadomasochistic Cenobites, hellbound humans who have AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and, if summoned, return to torture and kill their victims.
84	* ''Film/{{Holidays}}'':
85	** ''Halloween'' has three cam girls who were abused by their pimp Ian making him [[spoiler:emasculate himself (offscreen, thankfully)]].
86	** The brief shot in ''Christmas'' of [[spoiler:Sarah sawing away at her boss Ed with an electric knife]] also counts.
87	* ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' by Music/RobZombie feature a backwoods clan of deranged serial killers who commit various physical, sexual, and psychological tortures on their innocent victims. The sequel ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' flips it around and turns the killers into {{Villain Protagonist}}s, now on the run from the law after the events of the first movie, with a [[RabidCop vindictive sheriff]] eventually [[PayEvilUntoEvil torturing them in kind]] as revenge for their killing his deputy brother.
88	* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' trilogy combines this with BodyHorror. The worst stuff was [[GoryDiscretionShot merely alluded to]] in the first film, though the second one went out of its way to show it in [[BloodierAndGorier full, gory, scatological detail]], before plunging straight into SelfParody with the third installment.
89	* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'', probably the most infamous RapeAndRevenge 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.
90	* ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS'', the TropeCodifier for {{Nazisploitation}}, has as its VillainProtagonist 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 [[HerrDoktor medical experiments]] on the female prisoners in order to prove that women, with their higher pain tolerance, would make better soldiers than men.
91	* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''. While most of Creator/QuentinTarantino's works veer more towards {{Gorn}} and ExploitationFilm 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.
92	* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'': 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.
93	* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' has, as one of its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbaSAwkh2PQ most famous scenes,]] Creator/GerardButler's character Clyde Sheldon [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapping Clarence Darby, the man who murdered his wife and daughter, to an operating table]] after injecting him with a [[AndIMustScream paralyzing tetrodotoxin]] and describing to him, [[ToThePain 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 [[TragicKeepsake a picture of Clyde's family]] taped to it so that Darby is ForcedToWatch 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.
94	* ''Film/TheLovedOnes'', 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 [[HighSchoolDance the senior prom]]. It ''starts'' with them injecting bleach into his vocal cords so that [[AndIMustScream he can't scream for help]], all the while taunting him with a chant of "WE CAN'T HEAR YOU!".
95	* The French film ''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 [[spoiler:the martyr being [[FlayingAlive graphically skinned alive]], left to hang that way, and her long-sought otherworldly revelations [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driving her captor to suicide]]]].
96	* ''Film/MeganIsMissing'' turns into this once the viewer learns what happened to Megan, especially after [[spoiler: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.''
97	* ''Melancholie der Engel (The Angel's Melancholy)'' is an absolutely nauseating 2+ hrs of nihilistic torture, sex (both consensual and not), coprophilia, suicide, murder, and very real animal deaths, all with an extremely thin layer of attempted philosophical pretension.
98	* The films of Creator/TakashiMiike in general are notorious for this.
99	** ''Film/{{Audition}}'' starts out as a RomanticComedy, 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 [[PsychoExGirlfriend 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."
100	** When his adaptation of the manga ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'' premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, barf bags were distributed to the patrons, and at least one person actually had to use theirs.
101	** His ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E13Imprint Imprint]]" was [[MissingEpisode 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 Creator/{{Showtime}}, not known for squeamishness.
102	* ''Film/{{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.
103	* ''Film/PinkFlamingos'', the film to start with if you're interested in the work of Creator/JohnWaters, plays with this trope [[CrossesTheLineTwice 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 TrueCrime genre, so it's usually meant to be (disturbingly) funny.
104	* Creator/EliRoth is a filmmaker who made his name as one of the leaders of the "Splat Pack" of ultraviolent horror filmmakers in the 2000s.
105	** His directorial debut ''Film/CabinFever'' is structured like a SlasherMovie, 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.
106	** ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' and its sequels, in which tourists (in [[{{Ruritania}} Eastern Europe]] in the first two films, in UsefulNotes/LasVegas in the third) are kidnapped to be tortured to death by rich sadists. The franchise has become so successful that it became the TropeNamer for the entire genre.
107	** ''Film/TheGreenInferno'', his GenreThrowback to '70s/'80s jungle cannibal movies.
108	* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'', based on [[Literature/The120DaysOfSodom an infamous novel]] by the Creator/MarquisDeSade. Updating the plot of the novel from 18th century France to the closing days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, its {{Villain Protagonist}}s 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 [[SexSlave 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 [[BannedInChina 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.
109	* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films.
110	** While the [[Film/SawI first film]] is actually fairly light on explicit gore (and was more of a straight serial-killer story along the lines of ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' than a straight example of this genre), the sequels (especially from the [[Film/SawIII third one]] on) most certainly ''aren't'', and the series as a whole is the TropeCodifier for the genre. Its twist on the formula is that its villain, the Jigsaw killer, makes use of [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts elaborate]] {{Death Trap}}s to kill his victims as [[TheScourgeOfGod punishment for their moral failings]], while always giving them the ability to escape the trap with their lives by making a painful LifeOrLimbDecision. 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 [[SelfHarm mutilate themselves]] to survive and escape.
111	** 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 [[SexySoakedShirt wet T-shirt scene]].
112	* Discussed and mocked in ''Film/Scream4'', 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.
113	* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' made this trope literal, with the villains shooting a pornographic SnuffFilm. It features such scenes as a woman [[TheToothHurts 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 [[GagPenis well-endowed]] father, and, most infamously, [[WouldHurtAChild "newborn porn"]]. Much like ''Salò'', its trope page on this very wiki is locked to prevent it from just becoming a catalog of depravity.
114	* ''Film/SickGirl'', which has what is possibly the most disturbing girl on girl rape scene ever.
115	* Averted for the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'', which was almost BloodlessCarnage. However, the BloodierAndGorier sequels and remakes can count for this.
116	* ''Film/TetsuoTheIronMan'' 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.
117	* ''Film/{{Turistas}}'', in which American tourists in Brazil are kidnapped by criminals running an [[OrganTheft organ harvesting/smuggling ring]].
118	* ''Film/{{Unthinkable}}'': Nuclear bombs are set to go off, and it's up to Creator/SamuelLJackson to torture their whereabouts out of the man who planted them.
119	* ''Film/{{Untraceable}}'': A [[MurderDotCom website called Kill With Me]] is set up in which people are subjected to brutal ''Franchise/{{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.
120	* ''Film/{{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 SnuffFilm operation. Special mention goes to the copious amounts of BodyHorror that has made Creator/DavidCronenberg a household name.
121	* A group of people are captured and forced to mutilate themselves in order to produce endorphins in ''Film/{{Vile}}''.
122	* One of the earliest films to get this reputation was ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'', 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 Creator/ChristopherLee, who repeatedly butted heads with the director over the unsavory content, refused to watch after it was finished).
123	* ''Film/WolfCreek'' is something of an UnbuiltTrope 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.
124	* The "fucked up fondue" scene in ''Film/WrongTurn4BloodyBeginnings'', along with a few other instances, like death via electroshock, and dismemberment on a makeshift, barbed wire rack.
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127	[[folder:Literature]]
128	%%* ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', though not the film based on it.
129	%%* ''Literature/{{Haunted\|2005}}'' by Creator/ChuckPalahniuk. "Guts" is one of the featured short stories.
130	* The Creator/MarquisDeSade is the TropeMaker, and one of the most infamous authors in history; the word "sadism" was named after him, and, unlike most examples on this page, his torture porn is also literally porn. His stories are full of rape, incest, bondage, sadomasochism, pedophilia, coprophilia, and necrophilia. His most infamous work was ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom'' which had four libertines and their accomplices kidnapping and horrifically abusing sixteen teenagers over 120 days. UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte had him thrown into an insane asylum after reading ''Justine'' (about a young woman who is raped, tortured, and sexually abused over many years for her virtue and purity), which is actually one of his milder works, where he spent the rest of his life.
131	* A British pulp fiction publisher, Creator/NewEnglishLibrary, specialized in this sort of stuff, which garnered it the nickname "Nasty, Explicit and Lurid". Their short novellas (usually around 128 pages each, and supposedly written mainly by Ray Slattery under names like "John Slater" and "Jim Kent") were primarily set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and focused on the experiences of prisoners-of-war or others who opposed the Japanese or Nazis in any way. The covers had lurid illustrations of torture scenes, and the titles included the likes of ''Torture Road'', ''Women of Ravensbruck'', ''Pleasure Camp'', and so on in endless permutations. A few of the novels were outside the war setting but came up with other settings in which similar scenes could occur, such as white women being sold into slavery in Middle-Eastern countries. For a while, the novellas could be found quite easily in used bookshops, but then they became quite rare and expensive. Some suspect that one reason why the books became rare was that the lurid covers and titles offended the conservative sensibilities of the older people who often worked in these charity shops, and so they got tossed out in the rubbish.
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135	* There's a reason that Jack Bauer from ''Series/TwentyFour'' has a [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique 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.
136	%%* The occasional short on ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''.
137	%%* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'', especially the second season.
138	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' remains fairly tame, but considering it was aimed at children:
139	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment 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 [[{{Padding}} padded out]] with lots and lots of torture scenes that are irrelevant to the plot.
140	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" had quite a lot of torture scenes.
141	** The story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]", which is set in a depraved far-future society which tortures and kills its rebels in inventive ways on [[PublicExecution live TV]], and exports the videos to other worlds as {{Snuff Film}}s. Depending on your view it is either a prescient satire on the genre or an early, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ugly]] example.
142	%%* [[spoiler:Theon]]'s subplot in season 3 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' devolves into this.
143	* Parodied in ''Series/LoveBites''. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2NEEgiFVc "Coming Attractions,"]] the protagonist couple Max and Katie are watching previews in the theater, when the trailer for a movie called ''Open Hearts'' comes up. It looks like a romantic drama at first, but it quickly turns out that the boyfriend in the movie is a depraved SerialKiller who proceeds to graphically torture the woman to death in ''very'' prolongued fashion while [[EvilLaugh laughing psychotically]]. The two are rather disturbed by it.
144	* The base-breaking ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' episode "That's My Dog", in which David is kidnapped, sexually-assaulted, tortured and nearly killed by a psychopathic hitch-hiker.
145	* ''Series/{{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.
146	** 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.
147	** 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.
148	** Crowley tortures an innocent angel named Samadriel very gruesomely.
149	** In early Season 12, The British Men of Letters torture Sam, for several episodes.
150	* The [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS07E01TheDayWillComeWhenYouWontBe Season 7 premiere]] of ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010''. Newly introduced BigBad Negan brutally murders two main characters, gleefully [[BatterUp smashing their skulls with a baseball bat]] wrapped in barbed wire until nothing is left but {{Gorn}}. He taunts and torments their friends, who are ForcedToWatch the entire time. He psychologically breaks series protagonist Rick Grimes, physically dominating him and later almost forcing him to sever his own son's arm with a hatchet until he is left a sobbing, blubbering wreck.
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153	[[folder:Music]]
154	* Music/FrankZappa's "The Torture Never Stops" from ''Music/ZootAllures''. It evokes medieval dungeon imagery, with sounds of two women screaming and moaning throughout. The sounds they make sound suspiciously like orgastic moans, though...
155	* The music video for the Music/{{Eminem}} song "3 a.m." was described as this by ''New York Magazine''.
156	* "Back Pack" by Music/AndrewJacksonJihad invokes this in the second verse to sad and horrifying effect.
157	* {{Horrorcore}} is a genre that thrives on this, going into lurid detail on people getting brutally tortured and murdered in all manner of excruciatingly brutal ways. Not surprising, given that much of it is an homage to classic horror films, especially those of the sort that are considered torture porn.
158	** Music/{{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 [[UsefulNotes/TheDeepWeb Dark Web]].
159	* In 1993, Music/NineInchNails created a twenty-minute short film titled ''Broken'' to go with the EP of the same name. Never officially released but circulated in bootlegs for years and currently [[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails-Broken available]] from the Internet Archive, the video is filled with graphic imagery, most notably a man (played by performance artist Bob Flanagan) being brutally tortured and dismembered by a RoboticTortureDevice, all of it set to NIN's music. Thanks to the ever-degrading quality of the VHS bootlegs as they circulated in TheNineties, many young NIN fans at the time mistook it for a real SnuffFilm.
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162	[[folder:Radio]]
163	* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho dives into this trope on occasion.
164	** The episodes [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts "Spare Parts"]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee "Jubilee"]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho052Scherzo "Scherzo"]],[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho053TheCreedOfTheKromon "The Creed Of The Kromon"]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho054TheNaturalHistoryOfFear "The Natural History Of Fear"]] (the last three of which follow each other directly) immediately come to mind.
165	** The Fifth Doctor is a frequent recipient of torture in Creator/BigFinish 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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168	[[folder:Theater]]
169	* You [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples may or may not be surprised]] to learn that there's a Creator/WilliamShakespeare play that comes about as close to this as you can get on a stage: ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', his first big play.
170	* The Grand Guignol theater in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, open from [[TheGayNineties 1897]] to [[TheSixties 1962]], was a legendary purveyor of this, especially during its height in the [[TheRoaringTwenties interwar]] [[TheGreatDepression period]]. The name of the theater is still occasionally used as shorthand for graphic, highly stylized and fetishized violence.
171	* ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'' has Oedipus emerge having learnt of what he's done, [[EyeScream now having gouged out his own eyes]]. ''Theatre/{{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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174	[[folder:Video Games]]
175	* The AsymmetricMultiplayer game ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', while based primarily off of {{slasher movie}}s, is also heavily influenced by this genre, between the kills (especially the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]) and the grungy atmosphere of the maps. Fittingly, Amanda Young from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films is available as one of the playable killers, and can kill her victims by forcing them into painful traps. Then they decided to take the trope name literally and make a DatingSim SpinOff called ''VisualNovel/HookedOnYou''.
176	* Creator/AliceSoft is known to delve into this on occasion, with their ''Evenicle'' series being a notable instance. One scene involves a woman being gang-raped by monsters too big to be "compatible", who begin [[ToServeMan to eat her alive]] as she frantically screams for her life [[IWantMyMommy and parents]], until a sickening crunch is heard. [[ArtStyleDissonance Don't be fooled by the bright, cutesy anime artstyle]].
177	* Finnish indie RPG ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'' are DarkFantasy SurvivalHorror games with a heavy focus on graphic depictions of gore, nudity, and sexual violence in addition to being NintendoHard. One popular Steam review for the first one best sums up the experience as "''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' but you are a side character, the game". The creator, Miro Haverinen, made the first game [[ForScience as part of his university thesis]] and declared his intent to "[[https://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/125072 create as oppressive and frightening an atmosphere as possible]]".
178	* ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'' was a BlackComedy parody of the concept of MurderSimulators, advertising itself as "the most violent AdventureGame of all time". You play as an AmnesiacHero teenager murdering his neighbors in BloodyHilarious ways on the behalf of an AncientConspiracy [[spoiler:with the ending revealing that it was all a LotusEaterMachine designed to groom him into a SerialKiller]].
179	* ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'' was a SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'', and was infamous for being one of the few video games in history besides ''Manhunt 2'' below to receive an MediaNotes/AdultsOnlyRatingESRB purely for violent content. The civilians are all MadeOfPlasticine, allowing for ridiculous amounts of {{gorn}} as [[VillainProtagonist The Antagonist]] is perfectly capable of [[FinishingStomp smashing a victim's head in with one clean stomp with his boot]], or [[YourHeadAsplode completely erasing heads with a shotgun]]. One of the executions involves grabbing your victim and ''[[GroinAttack stabbing them repeatedly in the groin]].''
180	* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', Travis Tate, [[spoiler:the Alpha in charge of programming the HADES subfunction of GAIA]], had a taste for such movies. [[https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Archive_Abuse One datapoint]] mentions how he tried to submit "265 'holographic re-masters' of 'acknowledged classics of extreme exploitation cinema'", including "all [[RidiculousFutureSequelisation sixteen(!)]] installments of '[[Film/TheHumanCentipede Making a Millipede]]'", for addition to [[spoiler:APOLLO, the repository of human knowledge]]. His request was angrily denied by Samina Ebadji, [[spoiler: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 [[MissingEpisode lost to history]]. She also says that, by contrast, the works of Creator/PierPaoloPasolini ''have'' been accepted for preservation, because ItsNotPornItsArt. [[spoiler:However, since Ted Faro ultimately deleted APOLLO out of a mix of LuddWasRight, SanitySlippage, and an attempt to keep the future from learning that it was he who doomed the world, it's ultimately a moot point.]]
181	* The first ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' game is a slight subversion, as it revolves around a SnuffFilm ring, and even the worst executions are relatively quick and clean compared to usual TorturePorn. The second game, which takes inspiration from most of the SlasherMovie genre, takes this trope, and runs with it to the endzone, with the "Violent", "Gruesome", and "Environmental" kills [[ColdBloodedTorture 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 ''Film/{{Hostel}}''.
182	* ''VideoGame/ThePunisherTHQ'' (another Creator/GarthEnnis story) is rife with TheJoysOfTorturingMooks, as ComicBook/ThePunisher is able to inflict a litany of {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}s on mobsters including shoving a man into a ConveyorBeltODoom ''[[GroinAttack crotch-first]]'', feeding a thug to a WoodChipperOfDoom, 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.
183	* And of course, ''Saw'' has itself received a [[VideoGame/{{Saw}} video game adaptation]]. [[VideoGame/SawIIFleshAndBlood Two of them, in fact.]]
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186	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
187	* Some mature-only visual novels may constitute literal torture porn, i.e. feature characters being sexually tortured non-BDSM-wise. Clockup is one of the visual novel producers that make games where characters are raped and mutilated/amputated/decapitated at the same time.
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190	[[folder:Web Original]]
191	* Some of the scenes in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' 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.
192	* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' 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).
193	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' combines this with SubvertedKidsShow ''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.
194	* The fake movie ''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/awful-movie-database/slew-movie-horror/ Slew]]'' from Website/SomethingAwful's Awful Movie Database is a parody of the genre, in which gorgeous women are forced to mutilate themselves in a highly sexualized manner, taking the "porn" part of the trope a bit too literally. It's implied that the film exists purely as an excuse to showcase eroticized violence against women; the [[StrawMisogynist Saudi Arabian]] cut runs an extra twelve minutes, it's noted that "6.8% of the audience achieved an erection during the torture scenes", and the snippet we get of one of the user comments tells us ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the sort of people who enjoy this film. The main characters are also TooDumbToLive, and the death traps are ridiculously convoluted to the point that one person asks if he can rewind the tape to make sure he gets all the instructions right.
195	-->'''Incorrectly Regarded As Goofs:''' When Lucy gets caught in the breast vice it shows her cutting her breasts off to escape, then cuts to her with her breasts back again, then she cuts them off a second time in greater detail. The first sequence of her cutting her breasts off is intended to be her imagining cutting her breasts off before she cuts them off to escape the breast vice trap and deactivate the water pump filling the room with water.
196	* The short-lived series ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-1hrxZMQ8 Mis-Directed]]'' [[ParodiedTrope spoofs this]] in the first episode. It's about a brother and sister trying to make one of these films, and in addition to the camera problems, the sister Julianna plays the victims with heaps of BadBadActing and acts like ThePrimaDonna while wearing a [[PrettyInMink purple rabbit fur jacket]].
197	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbX1_aCvsg&index=1&list=PLBZXkOVkOn1ko9pDOFhTK-PrUvFh402bp This series]] by Horrible Reviews is essentially an examination of the surprisingly extensive examples of this subgenre in cinema over the years (including a number which largely fell off the radar).
198	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl1MVtgfWIw This short film]] is literally titled ''Torture Porn'' and is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A man kidnaps a man who his wife cheated with, straps him down to a table, and starts torturing him to death. [[spoiler:[[ExactWords It turns out]] it's all [[DoubleEntendre innocuous foreplay]], with the TortureTechnician and his victim being gay lovers with a torture fetish shooting a HomePornMovie.]]
199	* A few of the more violent and detailed {{creepypasta}}s can venture into this, and a lot of the poorly-written ones tend to [[ArtisticLicenseBiology ignore biology hard enough]] to even cross back over into NightmareRetardant.
200	* ''Platform/GoAnimate'''s "Punishment Day" videos, while usually consisting of {{Humiliation Conga}}s that are meant to be more funny than disturbing, can reach this level if sufficiently brutal enough. Some videos, believe it or not, are rated 18+ and have even been removed from Platform/YouTube for guideline-shattering content. The ones involving [[WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} Caillou]] and [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] tend to be the worst, with noteworthy "punishments" (that, at this level, are more ''crimes'' than anything) including:
201	** Shitting in the victim's mouth.
202	** Spitroasting the victim with strap-ons.
203	** Forcing the victim to read the "Offended" page on Encyclopedia Dramatica (with the single webpage alone having enough disturbing content to rival entire {{Shock Site}}s).
204	** Locking the victim in a freezer until their body turns to ice, then shattering their body parts with a hammer.
205	** Gouging the victim's eyes out.
206	** Forcing the victim to eat their own hands.
207	** Forcing the victim to drink the "punisher's" piss.
208	** Straight-up ''murdering'' the victim.
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211	[[folder:Western Animation]]
212	* "[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp Ren Seeks Help]]", a notorious episode of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'', is a rare animated example of this trope. The story focuses on a series of brutal, grotesque {{Flashback}}s in which Ren as a child [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tortures animals]] while they beg him to stop; each incident is animated in graphic detail. It's hard to tell whether these scenes were meant to be PlayedForLaughs or not.
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215	[[folder:Other]]
216	* Various "extreme" haunted houses exist that are designed to simulate the experience of being dropped into a film like this, with guests signing waivers and going through a physical screening before they are subjected to a grueling, full-contact experience that may (and often does) include being BoundAndGagged, waterboarding, physical assault, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation sensory deprivation]], [[FullFrontalAssault nudity]], being [[EatThat forced to eat bugs and worms]], and anything else short of actually, seriously hurting the participants. [[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/30/extreme-haunted-house-masochists-mckamey-manor McKamey Manor]] is one of the most infamous examples, with [[https://www.youtube.com/@McKameyManor their YouTube channel]] filled with highlights.
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