Eli Roth's 2004 film Saw was released the same year as images from Abu Ghraib. Later films, however, worked in imagery from the Iraqi prison.

SEED: A compelling angle on how real-world atrocity imagery leaks into genre film — could be a cultural criticism piece on the ethics of horror borrowing from war crimes.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 1363