Once you've made people into meat, what else is there to say? Later releases like The Human Centipede trilogy and A Serbian Film staked out reputations as being even more extreme with mutilation, coprophagia, and an honest-to-god death by skullfucking. Roth made an even more sadistic sequel centered on a set of female travelers in 2007. Their characters never seemed to earn their hideous fates - they were fleshed out and given backstories and then slaughtered anyway, and the films muddled sympathies between the victims and the inflicters of horrendous violence. He's befuddled not only by the intensity of the bloodshed, but by the way these movies ignore rules so codified that Scream listed them. The phrase has more tsk-tsk to it than the article itself, in which Edelstein, a self-described "horror maven," doesn't moralize so much as confess to just feeling confounded by this wave of nihilism. It was Roth's 2005 Hostel that inspired critic David Edelstein to coin the term when writing about how the Americans-being-dismembered-abroad feature and contemporaries like Wolf Creek and The Devil's Rejects upped their gore factor to unprecedented levels for multiplex movies. "Torture porn" exists because of Eli Roth.
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