User blog comment:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Proposal - Killer (Blood Trail)/@comment-1705775-20190917151833

it's not torture-porn for the simple fact it has some basic morality - the killer eventually gets what's coming to them (even if, as is common in horror, the threat may still exist off-screen).. if it was torture-porn the killer would win outright and everyone would just be treated as objects to murder.

so with that out of the way he qualifies as a sadistic psychopath - he knows what he is doing, he is not psychotic.. he knows and enjoys the suffering the inflicts on others.. thus he has no excuse for his crimes at all.