The Menu and Saw are two movies you likely wouldn’t expect to hear in the same sentence as they couldn’t be more different.
While The Menu leans more into the psychological thriller side of the horror genre, the Saw franchise is a direct torture porn horror flick designed to make you queasy.
The Menu is sleek and polished, while Saw is grungy and grainy.
They exist on two completely different plains, and yet they share one unique similarity about them that becomes hard to ignore once you see it, and that is their main characters.
On the surface comparing Chef Julian (Ralph Fiennes) and John Kramer (Tobin Bell) sounds absurd, but when you get down to the nitty-gritty of their characters, there are some startling similarities.
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