I picked up the term
torture-porn and added it to my very limited horror-vocab at the Fangoria fair that I attended earlier this year. I heard many indie horror directors use it in reference to films like the Saw series and its many ripoffs. They said that this style of horror and the ever-popular remake were the current trends in Hollywood which they obviously detest. This kind of rhetoric was coming from the likes of Michael Dougherty, director of
Trick R Treat, and many other horror insiders who would like to see a return to some of horror's origins, which is one reason why Michael made
Trick R Treat as an anthology -- something horror fans love and Hollywood hates!!!
They all seemed really psyched to see former (good) horror directors like Sam Raimi, who has become immensely successful with his
Spiderman franchise, re-entering the genre -- in Sam's case with his recent horror-comedy
Drag Me to Hell, which I loved!!!
