Horror is horror, be it stately Gothics, psychological or pseudo snuff and torture porn is a boring meme coined by critic David Edelstein who doesn't particularly like violent horror and was using the term in a derogatory, morally superior sense, so nobody who is a horror fan really cares what he thinks, particularly as he's dumbing down potential discourse with inaccurate and dismissive terms, as I'd be if I were to term the likes of Airplane! as comedy porn or Rambo as war porn or The Lives of Others as highbrow chin stroking porn, for example. The first Saw is hardly gratuitous, yet he (and you apparently) labeled it as torture porn.
One of the reasons horror is popular is because of its versatility as it has a whole selection of subgenres. You want devil worshiping cults, then watch The Omen, you want ghost stories then watch The Innkeepers or The Shining, you want psychological than watch Spoorloos, and if you want gore, watch Day of the Dead and if you want what is referred to as "torture porn", then there's a whole selection to choose from too.
Scariness is subjective and people are individuals with individual tastes. I happen to like most subgenres of horror and most styles, be they PG-13 like The Others or NC17 like A Serbian Film.
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People who watch torture porn over and over again are a different matter.
, while earlier you merely thought that people who watched Saw harboured sick fantasies and nobody rational is interested in your passing off of your personal opinion as a bare faced assertion with zero to back it up, as any self respecting horror fan can tell you, as we've heard it all before. Didn't phase us then and won't phase us now.
Your type of mentality leads to films being banned and creates silly and irrational eras such as the Video Nasty whingefest, as you just can't seem to grasp how some people are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality, enabling them to enjoy films like Saw, yet still be moral people who find real murder and violence repugnant.
Also, you claimed you didn't understand how adults can still like "horror" films anyway, so why are you even posting on this thread? I don't go on threads for people who collect rare 17th century coins and opine that I can't understand why any adult would collects such things, for example as I don't post on threads whose subjects don't interest me.
Odd that you do.