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Echoing that film, Mr. Wright goes over the top presenting a sleekly designed but sadistic authoritarian regime characterized by exuberantly dumb sloganeering and bloodlust.

Sentencing Plumb, Mr Justice Murray described some of his plans as "particularly sadistic, brutal and degrading", and said he had "no doubt that this was all considerably more than a fantasy".

Much of the book makes for extremely harrowing reading, as Ms Giuffre details the sadistic abuse that Epstein put her through.

At his sentencing, judge Mr Justice Murray said some of the plans Plumb discussed online were "sadistic, brutal and degrading".

Of course, no return to the Borderland would be complete without partaking in sadistic games, and that required inventing new ways to test the players.