The Saw franchise puts out more movies more often than any movie franchise ever, I'd wager. The first movie, Saw, was a surprise hit when it was released in 2004. Here we are, four years later, and we're all the way up to Saw V. It's probably good for fans of the films, though, since there are always so many questions left unanswered at the end of each movie that we can only hope get addressed in the next movie. (Good news, then: Saw VI was being written at the same time as Saw V, so we'll probably have another installment in the first part of 2009.) Saw V has a regular trailer and a redband clip. The all-ages trailer doesn't show much, but it still manages to utterly creep me out. It has Luke from Gilmore Girls (this is a far cry from Stars Hollow, don't you think?) with his head in some sort of clear box. He's clearly trapped, waiting for the clues from Jigsaw to tell him what sort of torture he must endure to get out. We don't get to see what happens.
Not true with the redband clip, though. It's a different actor, and he's tied up under a pendulum, which will cut him in half if he doesn't first choose to let two devices at his sides crush his hands. It's terrifying. This is what I love about the Saw movies: They're puzzles. Fun! Right? Well, then there's what I hate about the movies: Jigsaw and his crazy, sociopathic, cringe-inducing torture fills me with such terror that I actually start to hate the thought of puzzles. I would really hope an end might be in sight for this franchise. But if Friday the 13th is any indication (I am not saying that franchise is as consistently good as this one, but they're both horror franchises with scary masked terrorizers), there will be many, many more. And if it keeps producing films at this rate, we'll be up to 20 in no time.
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The Saw movies are so gross I can't even enjoy them. I wish horror hadn't gone to this place.
I completely agree. I have not bring able to bring myself to watch any of the Saw movies. Just the commercials alone turn me off.
I think there is something wrong with our society that we enjoy watching people get tourtured. What happened to sympathy or empathy?!
Freakin awesome!! The more saws the better!!
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