Rat torture
Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive.[1]
History
The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the
During the
Rat torture appears in the famous case study of a patient of Sigmund Freud. The Rat Man obsessed that his father and lady friend would be subjected to this torture.[4]
Rat torture was used by several South American military dictatorships: in
Serial killer Richard Kuklinski alleged in a series of interviews that one of his preferred methods of murder was to tie up a victim and leave them in a cave overnight so they could be eaten alive by rats. He would also leave a Super 8 camera in the cave to film the events. Like many of Kuklinski's other claims, this has been disputed due to a lack of evidence.
On October 16, 2010 in
In fiction
Rats are featured in the
An account similar to the Sonoy torture appears in the 1899
The threat of rat torture occurs in
In Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman inserts a starving rat into a kidnapped woman's vagina through a pipe.[15][16]
In the 2003 film
In the horror film Sinister 2, a snuff film titled "Sunday Service" depicts a family nailed to the floor of a church as rats are placed upon their bellies before cups are tied on top to keep the rats in place. Hot coals are then placed on top of the cups, encouraging the rats to burrow through the victims' chests to escape the heat.
In the film The Batman, the Riddler livestreams himself killing crooked Commissioner Pete Savage by strapping a device to Savage's head that forced rats from a maze to burrow their way into his face.[17]
See also
- List of torture methods and devices
References
- ^ Cameron, Mary (1931). Merrily I Go to Hell: Reminiscences of a Bishop's Daughter.
the Canton Rat torture, in which enormous half starved rats are put into a box with the victim, who is rapidly eaten alive
- Charles MacFarlane (1848). The Pictorial History of England. Harper & Brothers.
- ^ John Lothrop Motley (1883). The Rise of the Dutch Republic. Bickers & Son.
- PMID 5106163.
- ^ Watts, Jonathan; Rocha, Jan (10 December 2014). "Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship's abuses". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ Grupo de denuncia de la violencia sexual sufrida durante el terrorismo de Estado (2014). Vivencias del horror. Tortura sexual en las cárceles de Uruguay. Irrendentos Libros (in Spanish)
- ^ Simmons, Elizabeth (2009). Torture Under Pinochet's Regime. p. 12.
- ^ a b Nunca Más (Never Again); Report of CONADEP. 1984.
- ^ Chile: Evidence of torture: an Amnesty International Report. London (Amnesty International Publications) 1983, pp. 35–37
- ^ Shaer, Matthew (September 2, 2014) "Epstein Orthodox Hit Squad", GQ
- ^ "NJ Couple Sentenced For Helping Jewish Divorce Ring". The Times of Israel. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ISBN 0-521-79727-6.
- ^ Ahumada, Jorge (Summer 2005). "Review of Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Pathology". Publications: Book Reviews. American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
- JSTOR 2027067.
- ^ Reading the Body in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho (1991) - HAL-SHS
- ^ Rosenblatt, Roger (December 16, 1990). "Snuff This Book! Will Bret Easton Ellis Get Away With Murder?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ Bedard, Mike (3 March 2022). "The Riddler Scene in the Batman That Went Too Far". Looper. Retrieved 3 September 2022.