Not going to for torture porn or a slasher film style horror in my scripts but trying to determine how much is too much. The violence is part of the story not looking to glorify it and like the idea of implied acts (Slightly off camera so your imagination makes it worse.). For example in the one more graphic script a pair of men are taken to a location under the guise of hooking up with some girls. The girls instead have other plans and the point of the scenes and setup is to show how sick these girls are. It does admittedly straddle the line of torture/eroticism but not in terms of being gratuitous.
Screenwriting : How much is too much when it comes to violence in a screen play by Wolfe Lind
How much is too much when it comes to violence in a screen play
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In my opinion when I go to see a movie and it has intense violent scenes one after the other without giving you a moment to recover from the violence of the last scene, I'd say that would be too much. Then again, nowadays it doesn't seem like there is no such thing as too much violence.
My opinion is if the story is just a tool to display violence than it is a slasher. If the violence is a tool to the story than it isn't. Best way to look at it is all the good horror esque films are always something else. Example: Jaws, Alien.
How important is it that these girls are shown as disturbed? If it's integral to the plot, then leave it in. Too much violence is the violence that is there for the sake of violence. If there is no meaning behind it, it doesn't serve a purpose in the script, then cut it.
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violence when its only hinted at, for example in reservoir dogs where we only see the shadow of the ear cutting, its better to let the imagination of the audience than to have it explained to them, but you should limit it use, its better to have the actor portray the intent of what they are going to do, need to find a balance, look to Hitchcock the master,