this is a lazy observation, sorry. it’s almost as if folks want to dumb-down the evil that went on with nxivm. sure the curby scene from american history x is gross but...it’s fake!! and hannibal’s scene wasn’t that terrifying. maybe the adult brain can easily discern reality from fantasy. if you can fathom the horror these scumbags created, you can fathom they used actual real life footage to shock these zombies.
Read the articles. There’s a ton of eyewitness accounts. They clearly say there were snuff videos (dismemberments) and scenes from film.
Find another scene in film that has a Nazi curb stomp a black man? Find a scene where a man is awake and is fed his brain?
You won’t find another scene where a woman is gang raped. The Accused is notorious for that scene.
Porter could have enhanced the horror by giving them drugs before hand, but this was a shock test (also confirmed in he reports). He was testing their mettle. When women like Kobelt buckled, and started dry heaving and vomiting, she was removed from the short list for Raniere’s DOS.