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I never watched the Saw movies (and I have no intention of seeing them because they look stupid) but I thought Hostel was such a retarded movie. It wasn't scary, it was intentionaly offensive towards certain types of people, and I got the feeling that somebody enjoyed torturing animals when I was watching it. I guess those two movies are true examples of "torture porn", but most modern horror movies aren't like that at all. They're all either supernatural rip-offs of The Ring and The Grudge or fake documentaries like The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. Or they're crappy remakes of great classics.
And yeah I think that fictional horror helps to distract us from the real horrors of the world because reality is much MUCH scarier.
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