Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20171129183922/@comment-2175012-20171130011613

All I'm saying is that no one stands out in it due to its schlock value. If it had some kind of point to it, it'd be different. In these stories if the villain tortures a person for the evulz and there is no substance to teh story beyond that, then that villain does not count. By definition a CM is meant to revile the audience, but that does not inherently mean that an exploitation film succeeds at it. Take Girl Next Door. Beyond Meg getting tortured, the story is also about a young man remembering how he saw his friend get tortured and was conflicted on whether to do anything about it because the torturers in question were friends of his. That, and the film does not immediately jump to the torture, nor does it go to the extents that some other exploitation films do. So, beyond that, it actually has a substantial plot beyond "X gets tortured For the Evulz."