Hostel: Part II (2007)

I don't particularly feel like writing much about Hostel II, but I enjoyed it, and found it far less objectionable than the media and other horror fans make it out to be. We watched it in a "history of the slasher" class I took and, as part of an assignment, here's a question I asked in relation to the film. Food for thought I guess:I felt that I enjoyed the film a lot more when I recontextualized it with everything we've learned thus far in the class about the genesis of the slasher and the tropes that it most commonly explores: gender, abnormal psychology, adherence to socially normative behavior and the disturbance it causes, etc. Hostel 2 is hitting the required thematic bases, but it's just been structured in a different way, and a quite bizarre one at that. It takes nearly an hour for final girl Beth to be kidnapped, and although she's faintly aware that something's not quite right in Slovakia from the start, the pace is almost glacial and the body count low compared to nearly all the other movies we've seen this semester.This leads me to a point of great curiosity. For a film widely decried as "torture porn," there really isn't that much torture in Hostel 2. When I consider what puts a person in a tortured state, it's generally a lack of control on the person's part coupled with the intent to cause protracted suffering from the torturer. Lorna's death is the most clear-cut case of torture in the film, but Whit kicks the bucket pretty quickly and Beth only gets smacked a few times. To contrast, there are scenes in other films from the class such as Tina's death in Nightmare on Elm Street, where she's pinned to the walls and ceiling and savaged for what seems like five minutes...no control, protracted suffering. Nash's death in The Hitcher is arguable too. These read an awful lot like torture to me. So here's what I want to know: what IS torture porn, and why is the depiction of torture an inherently negative trait for a horror movie to have?