Very good points, but at the same time I can’t understand how such films could be viewed as entertainment...much less to the point of arousal. I mean, it would take one heck of a very sick mind to find something redeeming in that, really really sick, it’s frightening just to think about.
I totally agree with you. I am a WW2 history buff and I have studied the subject of Japanese human experiment facility Unit 731 in depth. I found out a movie had been made about the facility (Philosophy of a Knife) and watched it. While it featured actors and actresses being subjected to the barbaric experiments of these psychopathic scientists, it was still very disturbing. I do not know why someone would want to see the real thing.
Ever hear of the movie “Hostel”? The premise is rich people can pay to go to some Eastern European country and for alot of cash can have a rape/torute/murder vacation. The writer, Eli Roth said he had seen websites (plural!) that advertisd things like this and he was going to do a documentary about it, trying to find out if the sites were real or fake, but after some investigating, there were serious concerns about his safety, so he just did a gross-out horror movie version.