User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/Horror, Grimdark and Ethics/@comment-27560932-20150824120305/@comment-2059440-20150824121200

The Tortured would of worked if not for the needlessly cruel plot twist at the end, which was a means to say "revenge is bad" but did so in a manner so clumsy and cringeworthy any "morals" gets kicked in the ass.. they wanted to try and show that revenge is a terrible thing but it doesn't work when you make the whole movie be about "this guy deserves to be tortured, oh wait - the actual serial killer never gets harmed and an innocent guy hangs himself after being mentally and physically broken.. revenge is bad".

there's a billion better ways to say "revenge is bad" and I agree with many critics who said it was pointlessly cruel without being clever.

horror writers must learn if you are going to be cruel be clever.. otherwise it's just a trash film (and not even a fun one like the Troma films, who knew they were trash and just went all out (and they were never released in cinema.. trash films should of NEVER gained the mainstream publicity, they were always meant to be kept hidden) ).