Not surprisingly, a backlash led directly to the subgenre glibly known as “torture porn.” But even that grew wearisome with its Rube Goldberg-like exercises in how outlandish to dispatch people, courtesy of franchises like the Saw and Final Destination series. ![]() ![]() That’s because so many American horror movies of the past thirty years took refuge in the relative comfort of easily identifiable icons like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers -off-the-rack maniacs who inspired a pallid slate of slasher wannabes that grew predictable and stale with repetition. American filmmakers like to fancy themselves at the vanguard of every cinematic trend, but when it comes to sex, gore and extreme violence in films, it sometimes seems as if they just stepped off the Mayflower.
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