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Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
529
No
7
TV Show • 2016 Report
Yes
386
No
5
10
Anonymous
Season 2 shows flashbacks of children and a girl's mom being tortured.
TV Show • 2019 Report
Yes
324
No
4
36
dyskyeri
Episode 2, starting at 29:25. A man is tortured through electrocution in multiple places. It’s pretty graphic. If you want to skip this scene, skip ahead to 30:23. Later on the man’s body is discovered by Eudora Patch (the detective) and it’s a very graphic image (they leave him how they tortured him). This is at 52:20, and ends at 52:42
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
228
No
2
30
niomi
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
222
No
10
22
Anonymous
One particular character is tortured, both physically and psychologically, to a point where they essentially become an entirely different person & end up entirely submissive to their captor.
Movie • 2017 Report
Yes
216
No
3
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crabby
in one scene a kid is held down by 2 bullies while a 3rd starts cutting letters into his stomach with a knife. he is stopped before he finishes what he was trying to do, but it is still pretty hard to watch.
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
203
No
38
3
malevolentavocado
There are many torture scenes, this show deals with criminals who oftentimes are sadists. If you’re sensitive to torture scenes of any kind I would highly recommend not watching this :)
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
199
No
13
10
hyperandrogenism
Ruby is shown being tortured on screen, Dean talks about being tortured/torturing other people.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
199
No
6
21
howdywrites
Depends on definition of torture. Spoiler: a man is restrained while they cut one of his fingers off and the guests are being held hostage and tormented with mind games/death
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
185
No
22
38
Renjuro
**With as few spoilers as possible**
There are several scenes in this film that show innocent people terrified and suffering. They are not “tortured” in the traditional sense, but they experience froms of dehumanization and drawn out agony. The film does not linger on these moments for an exceedingly long time, but their disturbing nature hits hard in the moment.
Three scenarios come to mind:
1.) a young person is brutally attacked by an animal. The character is injured and helpless, but the animal periodically returns to continue attacking them. The scene is framed so that you cannot see the attack directly, but you see everything else and hear it as well. You see the scars sustained by this character later on in the film.
This animal also attacks another character that is attempting to flee. This character runs off screen and you can hear the animal maiming them.
2.) a group of people of all ages are killed in an unexpected and disturbing manner. Before their death, they experience a nightmarish scenario and suffer a great deal because of that. You can hear them scream and beg for help. They are then killed in a swift and brutal manner. It technically happens off screen but just barely imo.
3.) A character experiences a debilitating injury and is left to die in a disturbing way. You hear them scream in agony beforehand (For what it’s worth, they ultimately brought it upon themselves).
There are several scenes in this film that show innocent people terrified and suffering. They are not “tortured” in the traditional sense, but they experience froms of dehumanization and drawn out agony. The film does not linger on these moments for an exceedingly long time, but their disturbing nature hits hard in the moment.
Three scenarios come to mind:
1.) a young person is brutally attacked by an animal. The character is injured and helpless, but the animal periodically returns to continue attacking them. The scene is framed so that you cannot see the attack directly, but you see everything else and hear it as well. You see the scars sustained by this character later on in the film.
This animal also attacks another character that is attempting to flee. This character runs off screen and you can hear the animal maiming them.
2.) a group of people of all ages are killed in an unexpected and disturbing manner. Before their death, they experience a nightmarish scenario and suffer a great deal because of that. You can hear them scream and beg for help. They are then killed in a swift and brutal manner. It technically happens off screen but just barely imo.
3.) A character experiences a debilitating injury and is left to die in a disturbing way. You hear them scream in agony beforehand (For what it’s worth, they ultimately brought it upon themselves).
Video Game Report
Yes
176
No
6
30
tiffanyblues
When a killer is discovered and found guilty, they are executed through various methods. The first execution involves someone being beaten to death.
Movie • 2004 Report
Yes
175
No
0
21
Anonymous
The Jigsaw Killer's modus operandi is to kidnap people he sees as not appreciating life and places them in ironic traps.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
173
No
4
14
Anonymous
Nebula is tortured.
Doctor Strange is tortured.
Doctor Strange is tortured.
TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
173
No
24
0
megb
S2
E2
Yes- graphic. A man is chained up, nude, bloody and implied he has been tortured for a long time. We see his hand burned by a hot pan, then he is shot.
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
168
No
18
16
keysmashing
A girl very briefly tortures her father figure in episode 7. Description of the scene, spoilers ahead: He needs to take a medication applied via syringe that she is shown to have helped him with before. Believing he has lied to her, she pokes him twice in the face with it, visibly causing pain. The scene only lasts a minute and the torture aspect is relatively mild, but it could still upset some viewers.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
165
No
4
6
VelBloo
People are tortured psychologically throughout the entire movie
Video Game Report
Yes
164
No
2
17
starryesun
There is interrogation and references to torture. since it's minecraft it's never explicit or extreme, but it's used once or twice.
TV Show • 2010 Report
Yes
163
No
19
7
ellie.r.m
Michonne and Daryl are tied up by a group of antagonists and branded with hot metal and otherwise tortured in season 9.
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
160
No
6
2
VegaF8
In season 3 a character is stripped naked, humiliated and bike locked to a pillar, then forced to choose who to kill between 2 people he cares about. Arguably psychological torture. A supe introduced in season 3 is also tested on by scientists to test his limits including being shot down the throat, burned and gassed.
TV Show • 2013 Report
Yes
160
No
3
2
boilingpoint
characters are mentally/psychologically and physically tortured at several points in the show
Movie • 2000 Report
Yes
157
No
3
9
Anonymous
We see a drawer full of weapons and tools that is very disturbing and then we see two victims after being tortured. We see them physically and emotionally harmed and disturbed. We also see body parts and corpses repeatedly and the main character casually mentioning his violent acts. And we see his doodle drawings of his torture and violence in detail.
TV Show • 2022 Report
Yes
145
No
8
7
DizFunction
Wednesday uses torture as a threat several times.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
144
No
0
10
DesJac
Animals
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
142
No
1
14
rubyfire77
No active torture is shown, but it is a central idea. Areas and objects obviously used for torture are present. Characters are trapped/held hostage. At one point, a character plays a tape containing torture, but we don't see the scene at all, and all we hear from the tape is about 2 seconds of a woman crying with the sound of blows landing
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
142
No
1
0
They are all mentally tortured by Pemnywise through the whole movie.
Movie • 1996 Report
Yes
141
No
23
12
Sh3llbug
Mental torture
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
141
No
1
14
frootsnak
Some prolonged off-screen deaths where you hear people screaming in pain. Also a couple scenes of people being threatened with what is essentially a torture device, in the opening (it cuts away before you see the death) and on two other occassions where the characters escape unharmed
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
138
No
14
12
Gyra
In the later parts of season 5, someone is tortured in order to give information and be 'kept in line'.
TV Show • 2019 Report
Yes
136
No
11
29
zvas
While not strictly tortured, Jesus Christ is seen being crucified, and the process can be considered torturous.
Video Game Report
Yes
135
No
1
8
SimplySnazzy
Many executions involve torture.
At one point, also near the end, a character is forced to try eating a raw fish whole. She does not succeed and is laughed at. This could be considered torture.
There may also be an element of psychological torture throughout the entire film, but this is closer to gaslighting.