“The Torturer” (* out of four) was a gruesome and disgusting horror thriller about a man (Paul T. Taylor) being interrogated for a murder he can’t recall by a detective (Lawrence Varnado) and as it progresses, the torture and techniques get escalatingly worse for him (and the audience). Pointless movie made only for those who thought “Saw” was too intellectually complex and challenging; this effort makes any of those movies look like “Psycho” by comparison. Based on a series of short stories “Nailbiters” by Paul Kane who wrote this and adapted his own material but something didn’t quite transpire from the page to the screen.