Abstract
After a seven-year hiatus, the Saw franchise returned. Critics overwhelmingly disapproved of the franchise’s reinvigoration, and much of that dissention centred around a label that is synonymous with Saw: ‘torture porn’. Numerous critics pegged the original Saw (2004) as torture porn’s prototype. Accordingly, critics characterised Jigsaw’s release as heralding an unwelcome ‘torture porn comeback’. This chapter investigates the legitimacy of this concern in order to determine what ‘torture porn’ is and means in the Jigsaw era.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Horror |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Companion |
| Editors | Simon Bacon |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Pages | 85-92 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787079212 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781787079199 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jun 2019 |