Torture horror describes such a grisly subgenre of movies.
When you ask a horror fan what their favorite torture horror film is, there’s a good chance that Hostel will come up once or twice.
Eli Roth released Hostel in 2005 and led the charge for a new wave of horror movies that featured extensive scenes of torture, antagonists filled with bloodlust, and sometimes, more gore than dialogue.
Hostel especially took audiences by surprise when it boasted the line “inspired by true events” at the end of its trailer.
Hostel and the world of torture horror seems like a gruesome, far-fetched possibility only made up by the most creatively tortured mind, but could there be a real-world situation where these things happen?…
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