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Perhaps those "video game addicted" youts, who have been tested to show greatly-improved hand/eye coordination, shudder at the thought that a gang of nursing home residents (as an analogy) could take them down, even in numbers?

While I think that the current trend of "torture porn" has devolved the horror genre, the same can be said of the mid 1960s fascination with things that shamble, moan and aren't really that scary. Sure, it was great in the theater. But, by the time you make it home, you're thinking "Why didn't they just run?"

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While I think there is some genre precedent for “torture porn” with some of the 70’s era exploitation films (”Last House on The Left”) I agree it has not served the genre as a whole very well. Thankfully it seems the trend has worn off culminating with “Captivity” and “Hostel 2”. The obvious exception being the “Saw” series which by all rights should have ended with “Saw 3”. Unfortunately it has been deemed a yearly cash-cow for Hollywood so I don’t see that one ending soon.