Research

As part of our research for our opening clip, we looked at severeal different opening scenes and clips from TV shows and films that fit with our chosen Genre of Torture Porn. We have selected some films that we believe are suitable and can give a good insight into our genre and some new ideas to our opening clip.

We decided on the Genre of Toture Porn because we believe it gave us a lot of freedom as directors, and it was a lot of fun to come up with possible ideas and scenes for our clip, and it let us get very creative adding a lot of imagination into it.

Torture Porn
Since the 2000's there has been a resurgence of films influenced by the 'splatter genre' that depict nudity, torture, mutilation and sadism, labeled by critics as 'Torture Porn'. Eli Roth's Hostel (2005) was the first to be catagorised as 'Torture Porn'. So the genre is quite new to the film industry, althought past films such as Saw and its sequals have been labbeled as Torture Porn but the creators disagree with this. 'Torture Porn' is starting to become very popular and very profitable



Hostel Part I


Hostel is a 2005 horror film written, produced and directed by Eli Roth, this being one of the first films that started off the 'Torture Porn' genre. This film takes blood and gore to the max, so much that it's showing has been restricted in certain countries. The movie takes place in Slovakia, where three college students visit a hostel, where they think that all of their sexual fantasies will come true. Instead, they find an international syndicate with the express purpose of torturing and killing backpackers for the sadistic pleasures of rich businessmen. This film does not hold back when it comes to bloody scenes, they show you everything! This is why we chose to look at it: to see how we could film our own bloody scenes with out it looking cheesey, cheap and not high quality, also becuase they show you in depth the characters emotions and this is quite an emotional clip and we thought we could take ideas from this and re-work them for our own.


Hostel Part II
Hostel: part 2 pretty much has the same story line as Hostel part 1 where rich business men and women all place bets on random people (usually back packers) to kill in any way they please. This ones follows a group of 3 girls backpakcing acorss europe when a stranger invites them to the village party that is held every year, little did they know they would be lead to their death. One of the girls meets a guy along the way and he ends up a victim just like the most of the girls. To the viewers suprise one girl manages to escape, but the only way you are allowed out of the building is to kill someone, so she ends up killing the man you tries to kill her. This film takes gory scenes to the max, making you cringe in your seat and cover your eyes, but you can't stop watching! The way that the killers used their tools in this film really inspired us into using the theme of muderous household weapons like hammers, drills etc. You can tell we used this idea becuase in our clip their is a shot of the tools covered in blood which almost looks similar to the Hostel: Part ll advertising poster.

Eli Roth

Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is part of the group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack, because of their association and their focus on the horror genre. Roth is known for making violent, low-budget horror films that are box office hits worldwide, and for bringing back the R-rating to horror at a time when studios believed only PG-13 horror would work. In January 2006, film critic David Edelstein in New York Magazine credited Roth with creating the horror sub-genre 'torture porn,' or 'gorno,' using excessive violence to excite audiences like a sexual act. Roth has said he hates the term, and feels it is far more reflective of the critics who use it and their lack of understanding of the genre than of the films themselves.