Xah Lee, 2006-10
above: Shotgun collar.
above: Jaw-splitter. This device snaps open jaws, set to a timer.
above: Ice shower.
above: Ice Shower turned sculpture.
above: Skull Snapper. The victim is supposed to retrieve a key that were surgically placed in one of his eyes. A scalpel↗ is provided for amenity.
above: One-way razor wrist-trap.
above: Chain thru body. The victim is supposed to free himself by ripping off his punctured flesh.
above: Rib ripper. The victim is supposed to dip her hand into the acid to retrieve the key. Else, the harness that is attached to her ribs will rip her ribs apart.
above: The aftermath.
above: Modern Rack. The victim's limbs will be twisted beyond twistability by a mechanical force, and lastly, the neck as well.
These images are screenshots or photos from the movie series Saw. (Photo images taken from Wikipedia List of Saw Traps↗. Images © 2006 Lions Gate Entertainment. All rights reserved.)
Saw is a movie made by Americans. Its theme and central attraction, is explicit depiction of artful torture. By artful, it is meant that torture is taken as a art form, where the devices are ingenious, and the victims have to suffer the most possible pain before death, and mostly have to initiate or self-inflict the pain themselves, in the hope of escape. (e.g. sawing off their own leg, gouge their own eye, dipping hand in acid ...)
The Saw series, started in 2004, and because of huge profit, has been making a sequel each year. Saw III is released in 2006, again to huge success. Saw IV is planned to release in 2007.
For more detail about Saw, see: Saw III↗.
In the USA culture, explicit enjoyment of torture is ok, but nakedness is not ok. For example, Janet Jackson exposed one of her breast on TV for a few seconds, that caused a nation-wide controversy with few milions dollars fine to TV networks and also a change in US law and live broadcast rules. See nakedness — a American crime.
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