Tag: Leigh Whannell
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How Your Favorite Horror Franchise Began From Just an Unseen Short Film
It’s official: Jigsaw is back, and he’s more diabolical than ever before. Saw X is making a bloody splash at the box office with its tenth installment in the franchise, slicing through the competition and reinstating Saw‘s status as one of the most beloved horror franchises ever. Its signature tagline, bizarre traps, and twists and…
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Saw Movies Ranked, from ‘Saw’ (2004) to ‘Saw X’
Whether you’re a passionate John Kramer devotee or a haughty cinephile dismissing Jigsaw’s legacy as so-called “torture porn,” the “Saw” franchise absolutely got to you. Yes, you.Back in theaters for the 2023 Halloween season, James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s indie shocker-turned-big budget ringer redefined splatter films for the post-9/11 masses and kicked off a resurgence…
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‘Saw X’ Review: Tobin Bell Goes for Broke in Most Agonizing, Suspenseful ‘Saw’ Sequel Yet
People have got to stop fucking with John Kramer.“Saw X” hits theaters this weekend, and while every installment in the now ten-film franchise could be attributed to one of the Og Jigsaw’s three ridiculous backstories (car crash! wife’s miscarriage! brain cancer!), this is the closest the series has come to producing an outright revenge flick.…
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Every Saw Movie, Ranked by Number of Deaths
2004’s Saw is a great horror movie that started as a short film that contained the horror to mostly one location and one actor. This minimal approach from James Wan and Leigh Whannell spawned a behemoth horror franchise that currently stands at nine films, with the tenth, Saw X, releasing in 2023. Each Saw movie…
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Every ‘Saw’ Movie, Ranked by IMDb
The Saw series, beginning in 2004 with a single thriller created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, has become one of horror’s most prolific and popular franchises. Focusing on the activities of terminally ill serial torturer and killer John Kramer (Tobin Bell), known as “the Jigsaw Killer,” the series follows numerous victims, accomplices, and law…
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The Guy Behind ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ Also Gave Us This Zombie Horror Comedy
Leigh Whannell has given horror lovers classic franchises like Saw and Insidious, as well as other films like the most recent adaptation of The Invisible Man. But hidden within his dark and scary resume is a hilarious zombie flick starring Elijah Wood and Allison Pill. Cooties, which quietly premiered in 2014, takes the classic zombie…
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‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Budget Breakdown: How Much Money Has It Made?
Since 2010, the Insidious franchise has been terrifying and exhilarating audiences worldwide, amassing over $542 million at the box office from just the first four films alone. That’s a pretty impressive return on a combined total budget of only $26.5 million. Created by Leigh Whannell,, the supernatural thriller franchise utilizes makeup, practical effects, CGI, and…
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‘Upgrade’ Sets 4K Uhd and Blu-Ray Release
The 2018 Leigh Whannell-directed film, Upgrade, did not receive the recognition it certainly deserves. Though the sci-fi horror film is still widely considered a breakout hit, it didn’t quite reach the success of some movies released in the same year or the director’s succeeding feature, The Invisible Man, in 2020. But although the film is…
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Every Insidious Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
With four films that earned a combined total of over $250 million at the box office, the Insidious franchise is a force to be reckoned with. And that force is only getting stronger with the release of the franchise’s fifth film, Insidious: The Red Door, which is out in theaters now. The first film was…
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‘Insidious: The Red Door’: Patrick Wilson & Ty Simpkins Recap the Franchise
There have been so many fun modern horror franchises that have terrorized moviegoers over the last decade. However, none have reinvented the genre like Insidious. Leigh Whannell and James Wan created a franchise that restarted the haunted house genre for a new age. Through the 2010s, the franchise would see three sequels that were major…