Tag: Saw
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When Does ‘Saw X’ Take Place?
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Saw X.We think it’s safe to say that we would all lose if figuring out the twisty and turbulent timeline of the Saw series was one of Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) torture games. This long-running and beloved horror franchise is notorious for its wacky, crazy, and convoluted timeline. The…
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Every Saw Movie Ranked
There is something to the Saw franchise that ensures it will just never die. This is especially true now with the recently released Saw X which brings us back in time once more to a story of maddening traps, bloody torture, and twisting timelines. It also provides a perfect opportunity to revisit and rank all…
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‘Saw’ Movies in Order: How to Watch Chronologically or by Release Date
Saw started with a relatively simple idea. James Wan’s 2004 low-budget horror chained two men to a dingy bathroom, a horrifying puppet with the voice of Tobin Bell telling them a very simple order: “I want to play a game.” Across nine sequels and nineteen years, the franchise proceeded to lose its entire mind. Through…
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Sequels 2, Original 0 at Box Office: ‘Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie’ and ‘Saw X’ Hit, ‘The Creator’ Doesn’t
“Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie” (Paramount) topped “Saw X” (Lionsgate) by a healthy $5 million ($23 million to $18 million) on a weekend when either seemed feasible at #1. However, the order here isn’t the real story.While a “Paw”/”Saw” convergence isn’t exactly the second coming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” it’s still two films with very…
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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’ Review — Its Legacy Is More Impressive Than the Film Itself
As a kid, the idea of watching Saw (as an admitted scaredy cat up until the tender age of 20) was stomach-turning. Someone cut his own leg off? There’s torture? There’s a grimy room with poop stains and handcuffs? I was not among the masses to go catch the influential flick in theaters. However, as…
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The Saw Franchise’s Reverse Bear Trap Explained
Horror fans, similar to many other genre films, give a lot of attention to the production design of a piece. The costumes, the sets, and the props can all become iconic within the history of horror cinema and nerd culture as a whole. A syringe of green glow stick juice, a hockey mask, a possessed…
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The Saw Franchise Has More in Common With the Bible Than We Care To Admit
The Saw movies, to put it simply, are basically just torture films. There’s little plot, and it is really just two hours of gratuitous and gorey kills — but that’s what we’re watching them for. So, to put Saw in the same sentence as Christianity is baffling, to say the least, but there are some…
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‘Truly unwatchable’: writers on their toughest scenes of movie violence
For the return of the gory Saw franchise, Guardian writers remember the hardest scenes of big screen violence they’ve had to endureA rape-revenge thriller told in reverse, Gaspar Noé’s infamous provocation opens with the revenge part first, as two men (Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel) embark on a frantic search for the monster who sexually…
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Billy the Puppet Reads Your ‘Saw’ Reviews on Letterboxd
It’s another amazing weekend for horror fans with the highly anticipated release of Saw X finally killing its way to theaters. The tenth installment of the trap-happy Saw franchise sees the return of Tobin Bell’s John Kramer aka Jigsaw. However, you can’t have Jigsaw making a blood-soaked comeback without his trusted Billy the Puppet. Now…