Hey, everyone, I'm thelitcritguy. I co-host the horror movie podcast Horror Vanguard, have been a regular guest on Revolutionary Left Radio, and make Youtube videos on culture and aesthetics. I write on horror, capitalism, and cultural criticism (you can read my last piece here https://readpassage.com/the-horror-of-capitalism-squid-game-and-the-gothic-trap-of-debt/)
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Personally, I stay away from torture porn.
Interesting, I don't have any big problems with gore and such. It's usually the paranormal stuff that gets to me, because you never know what to expect or what the limits are. Body horror is awful but at least there's a hard limit in that you have some idea of how e.g. skin and flesh interact with sharp metal tools, while paranormal stuff could conceivably be hallucinated by my own brain at any time or place.
I'm not fond of the paranormal stuff either. I don't like it when you can't even count on basic natural laws.