I think his question (and the question I ask people who enjoy this type of film is, "How can you enjoy it?" What is it about watching simulated torture or murder that's appealing? Enjoyable?
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There is a WORLD of difference between asking a question like this one, and calling for a worldwide ban on someone's work because you are too stupid to articulate such a question. Unfortunately, it is the OP's attitude that most often dominates.
One reason for interest in this sort of material is that you only need to think of recent headlnes to see why women kept captive by madmen is something on people's minds -- Josef Fritzl. Wolfgang Priklopil. Phillip Garrido. Several cases in Saudi Arabia, where names weren't released because the imprisonment was not regarded as criminal (!).
Horror movies are a way for us to deal with our fears, both rational and irrational. Demographics of horror fans have recently found that horror fans are more than 50% female...so, before deciding a film is misogynist, do consider whether the women facing these horrific images aren't, in fact, learning to deal with some brutal truths that exist in this nasty modern world. Portraying evil, women-hating characters and their actions isn't an expression of misogyny. Quite the opposite! True misogynists are dedicated to hiding their vicious core, not exposing it to the light of day! Women are working through the fear of such men, which must figure into ALL their relations with the opposite sex, while men must deal with the potential for violence that exists within them.
Movies like this one concretize such issues, which otherwise might be nebulous, hard to pin down, and just add to the free-flowing anxiety of the day-to-day.
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