Commercial Success of the 'Torture Porn' Horror Genre

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“Torture porn” developed the horror movies not by attracting so many audiences, but also by proving to be commercially successful, with some of the movies becoming the highest earning in the horror genre. I have already talked about the Saw(2004) movie. It is one of those movies to set the record for highest earning horror film, earning the growth collection of more than $100 million worldwide. After this movie got so successful, they made another squeal of this movie. They titled it Saw II and it actually earned more than $147 million. Similarly, they made it up to seven parts so far and as far as I know there is the last part or the final chapter; Saw VIII too, which is uncertainly going to be released in the summer of 2016. So far the total box office collected globally from all seven parts of Saw are above $800 million. Hostel sequels are the other movies to set the record on high grossing horror film. Its clearly stated in the Forbes,“Roth made Hostel for $4.5 million, and the film was released in January 2006. Hostel grossed a total $80 million worldwide in theaters, plus DVD sales of $21 million.” This is a total worldwide collection of just one part of this film. There are up to 3 sequels. They aren't bad at all. They are already higher than the Bollywood highest grossed film. I have …show more content…

In this paragraph, I am going to talk about few negatives of torture porn. I think torture porn is not good for children because it has gory and shocking activities, which are not good for children to watch. Children can have those bad images for years in their mind and can stay the same for years. For instance, We all know that children love to imitate acting they have seen in the movies. Today they watched a movie consist extremely violent and gory. They remember the moves from the movie and they try it with their friends in class or somewhere else and can without knowing hurt their

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