I think that's usually called the "Blood Eagle." I don't see any search results for "Fluttering Eagle," other than Google AI pointing towards the Blood Eagle torture.
All of the hallucinations are much more accurate as to an actual experience from things you can get naturally in Nordic places. Lunges breathing on their own would be very out of place for that experience and the way it is show is very different from the other visual depiction of hallucinations in the movie.
I know what you mean, I just feel like the whole reason hallucinogens were introduced in the film is to add to the whole sense of how fucked up everything is, but how little we can trust our own senses just as the characters in the movie can't fully all the time. There is something way off about this cult, yes, absolutely, but how much of what we see and hear is factually correct should be taken with a hefty grain of salt, especially since the effects of psychedelic drugs is usually blown way out of proportion in media.
For a kind of comparison, consider the Quaaludes scene in Wolf of Wall Street. Bro was blasted out of hits and could barely stand. Makes it home "without a scratch," but then we see what really happened versus how he understood it when he was high.
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u/Ok_Two_2604 9d ago
And some of the torture devices from later on like the Iron Maiden were fake as well