Abstract
The previous chapter focused on a surprisingly elusive image. In spite of the reputation films such as the Saw franchise (James Wan, 2004; Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005, 2006, 2007; David Hackl, 2008; Kevin Greutert, 2009, 2010) and Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005) have of being obsessed with the bloody destruction of human flesh, actually detailing the process of mutilation in graphic visuals is a technique sparingly utilised. This chapter focuses on an image that is far more prolific throughout the sub-genre known as ‘torture porn’. This particular, yet spectacularly varied, image makes up the third stage of the assault: the aftermath.1 Bodies have been stabbed, flayed, burnt and dismembered; what I call the mutilated wound image now comes to the fore.
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Wilson, L. (2015). Mutilation as Spectacle. In: Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444387_3
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