Torture Room

Torture Room
Directed byEric Forsberg
Written byEric Forsberg
Produced byKaren Forsberg
StarringLena Bookall
John Forgeham
Barry Ratcliffe
William Tempel
CinematographyNick Rossier
Edited byMary Ann Skweres
Music byRobert Bayless
Production
companies
Cerebral Experiment
Lacy Street Productions
Distributed byEcho Bridge Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 5 January 2010 (2010-01-05) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesArabic
English
German
Box office$20,000[1]

Torture Room (also known as Pledge of Allegiance[2]) is a 2010 American political horror thriller film written and directed by Eric Forsberg.[3] A direct-to-video release, it stars Lena Bookall as Anoush Karagozian, a woman whose suspected ties to Middle Eastern terrorists lead to her being taken captive by U.S. government agents, who subject her to torture in an attempt to brainwash her into becoming an American asset in the war on terror.[4][2]

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  2. ^ a b Steve Jones (2013). Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 58, 65, 78, 102, 111. doi:10.1057/9781137317124. ISBN 9780230319417. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  3. ^ Xavier Aldana Reyes; Linnie Blake (2015). Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon. I.B. Tauris. p. 29. ISBN 9781784530259. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  4. ^ Timothy Melley (2012). The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State. Cornell University Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780801478536. Retrieved 30 October 2022.