Saw (2004)
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: James Wan
Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
A cancer victim punishes those who he considers treat the gift of life too lightly by devising elaborate traps for them to hoist themselves on.
Review:
This low-budget horror rapidly found itself the founder of an increasingly perfunctory series, timed to come out for Halloween and thus showing its hand as a Michael/Jason/Freddy surrogate. It is in fact no more than an Amicus/Vincent Price offering crossed with the serial killer sub-genre and dressed down with some grungy mise en scene and speeded up editing. Otherwise the much vaunted dénouement featuring the eponymous implement defies any kind of psychological realism, the pay-off is smug and there are far too many loose ends left dangling.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: James Wan
Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
A cancer victim punishes those who he considers treat the gift of life too lightly by devising elaborate traps for them to hoist themselves on.
Review:
This low-budget horror rapidly found itself the founder of an increasingly perfunctory series, timed to come out for Halloween and thus showing its hand as a Michael/Jason/Freddy surrogate. It is in fact no more than an Amicus/Vincent Price offering crossed with the serial killer sub-genre and dressed down with some grungy mise en scene and speeded up editing. Otherwise the much vaunted dénouement featuring the eponymous implement defies any kind of psychological realism, the pay-off is smug and there are far too many loose ends left dangling.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: James Wan
Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
A cancer victim punishes those who he considers treat the gift of life too lightly by devising elaborate traps for them to hoist themselves on.
Review:
This low-budget horror rapidly found itself the founder of an increasingly perfunctory series, timed to come out for Halloween and thus showing its hand as a Michael/Jason/Freddy surrogate. It is in fact no more than an Amicus/Vincent Price offering crossed with the serial killer sub-genre and dressed down with some grungy mise en scene and speeded up editing. Otherwise the much vaunted dénouement featuring the eponymous implement defies any kind of psychological realism, the pay-off is smug and there are far too many loose ends left dangling.