Thread:AustinDR/@comment-33014003-20171227164241/@comment-3364901-20171227173552

not just "taste", plot.. media designed purely to be disgusting and shocking has zero plot and is akin to porn in that sense (there's a reason it's called "torture porn") - the villains are just mindless sadists and designed with zero motive other than being disgusting and evil, because they are an after-thought, they simply exist to further the gore and shock of the film.

main characters are given little backstory, events are poor at best and the whole point is just to get to the gore and shock as quickly as possible - development of characters, motives etc are not on the list at all.. same reason many grimdark "stories" are excluded.

to qualify as a PE one has to have actual motive, a plot that is beyond just "disgusting asshole" and so forth.

CMs need a motive for what they do and they need some development or they are just Generic Doomsday Monsters, Hate Sinks or Stupid Evil.

you hate villains from shock media because they are Hate Sinks - they are designed just to be hated.. that's not enough for CM.. you can hate them all you want, you can say how depraved they are but in the end they lack ANY motives for what they do.. without motive they aren't even characters, they are just (as repeated numerous times) "Hate Sinks".