L’attrait de la souffrance: autour du ‘torture porn’

Resume: L’article vise a examiner l’emergence et le fonctionnement d’un sous-genre gore , dans les annees 2000, films qui ont, sous le nom infâmant de ‘ torture porn ’, tente de renouer avec l’horreur viscerale, introduisant au coeur du cinema de divertissement des representations troublantes. Il s’agit ici d’analyser la maniere dont les films operent un glissement de focalisation, du bourreau a la victime, du massacre a la souffrance, qui interroge la pulsion voyeuriste a l’oeuvre chez le spectateur. Mots cles: Torture; Spectateur; (cinema des) Attractions; Voyeurisme; Corps; Gore ; Horreur Abstract: The goal of this paper is to study the emerging and mechanisms of a new type of gore movies, which started in the beginning of the 2000s, and have, under the infamous name of ‘torture porn’ tried to come back to true visceral horror, thus producing, inside the field of mainstream cinema, disturbing images. The point here is to analyze the way those films produce a change of focus and address, from the torturer to the victim, from spectacle of slaughter to the exhibition of suffering, thereby interrogating the voyeuristic impulse of the viewer. Key-words: Torture; Viewer; Attractions; Voyeurism; Body Genres; Gore; Horror