Torture Porn

David happily found and recorded the first three films in the Saw franchise on the PVR. I was dubious that I would like them, but he convinced me to give them a try. I thought it was just going to be full of gratuitous gore; I don't generally mind violence, but certain kinds of gore really bother me. From what I recalled of the trailers, these torture porn films really wouldn't be my thing.

I made it through half of the first Saw film last night. Boy, were my expectations wrong. I would have stayed up to watch the whole thing but I was just too tired. The story is quite good and compelling, and more intelligent than the typical slasher flick. Halfway through it hadn't even been terribly gory -- there was only one scene for which I had to look away. Looking into it a bit, I realize now that I was suffering from some faulty memory; I wasn't thinking of the Saw trailer, I was thinking of Hostel.

Despite having grown up watching a variety of horror films, I lost my backbone for them after several years of not watching any at all because there was no one to watch them with. I think mayhaps I'm ready to get back into them.