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Saw VI
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Crime
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 1h31m
Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston
Synopsis Big Screen Buzz
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. ..

I'm so going!!!... by myself :(

As much as I love mutaltion and torture I could never get into saw.

And I only like hostel for the girl's. >.>

I wish they'd just end the damn series. They're nothing more than splatter films.

I'd go but the theatre is under renovation for another month and the next nearest theatre sucks so bad I wouldn't even go there to watch a Power Rangers movie (PR movies don't even deserve to be put on VHS).

People need to realize that their once well-thought of idea is turning to utter rubbish after ... say the third movie

I watch them for the puzzles, although they don't hold a candle to the gore fest that is Hostel.

Fateweaver wrote:I watch them for the puzzles, although they don't hold a candle to the gore fest that is Hostel.

I'll go and see it although Hostel was a little to much gore for my liking made me feel sick to the stomach watching it.

Saw needs to go away. Even the first one was a steaming pile of dog gak; why make more? Why make SIX?

Wraithlordmechanic wrote:Saw needs to go away. Even the first one was a steaming pile of dog gak; why make more? Why make SIX?

because apparently a lot of people like them.
good or bad i enjoy them but then again i like the scifi channel exclusive movies as well...

I enjoyed the original concept behind Saw,and the first two or three instalments in the franchise were ok.
Now,however,I belive the "series" has just run out of steam,and are simply bieng cranked out because they (for what ever reason) continue to draw a crowd.
Personaly,I hope that this will be the final instalment,as I've never cared for sequel spam in the horror genre.

I loved the first one and thought the second was Ok, the third one was a bit crap, I havnt seen the rest.

I hate splatterporn.

I despise it masquerading as 'horror' even more. To each his own but I found the first one boring and didn't bother with the rest.

I'd like to be scared again, the only 2 films in many years that left me feeling disturbed were Audition and Ju-on (The original Japanese Grudge film).

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I hate splatterporn.

I despise it masquerading as 'horror' even more. To each his own but I found the first one boring and didn't bother with the rest.

I'd like to be scared again, the only 2 films in many years that left me feeling disturbed were Audition and Ju-on (The original Japanese Grudge film).

I agree that it would be "fun/interesting" to be actualy scared by a film again,I remeber being scared of films such as Jaws and Phantasam as a kid,but it seems that nothing really bothers me as an adult.
Now it seems I "deconstruct"most "horror,splatter,scary" films as I watch them and either feel A.nothing,B.bored,C.anoyed or D.entertained/interested,but as for scared,not for over 25 years...and I miss it.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I hate splatterporn.

I despise it masquerading as 'horror' even more. To each his own but I found the first one boring and didn't bother with the rest.

I'd like to be scared again, the only 2 films in many years that left me feeling disturbed were Audition and Ju-on (The original Japanese Grudge film).

I do like the Saw movies well 1 or 2 of them but I would'nt call them Horror, the word Horror get's thrown around alot these days, for me movies like Psycho (original Hitchcock version) and The Birds are classed as horrors as well as the genre defining original Nightmare on Elm Street, but the films that are released these day's just seem to be made for an MTV kids generation with saturated hues (Texas chainsaw remakes) and over the top sex and blood splatter, which for me is neither tasteful or a joy to watch..anybody with me on this or am just old?

Wolfgang wrote: but the films that are released these day's just seem to be made for an MTV kids generation with saturated hues (Texas chainsaw remakes) and over the top sex and blood splatter, which for me is neither tasteful or a joy to watch..anybody with me on this or am just old?

I understand your point here,but in many aspects the "horror/scary" movie genre is aimed at the teen/twenty somthing market,and really has been since the 50's,sure they are some exceptions,like the Hitchcock classics you sighted,but by and large "horror"'s bread and butter are "young dollars".
To put it in perspective,when "I was a teenage werewolf" came out,it was considered "over the top and in bad taste",now it's a horror classic,This of course is not to say that films like Saw will be viewed as classics 30 years from now,but with shifting morals and perspectives,who knows.

You have a good valid point there, it's creepy how these movies have become more sexual and blood splattered and with the likes of Hostel just where will be stop? surely there will be a limit..

Anhyoo I like your Avatar

Wolfgang wrote:You have a good valid point there, it's creepy how these movies have become more sexual and blood splattered and with the likes of Hostel just where will be stop? surely there will be a limit..

Anhyoo I like your Avatar

Well,the utilization of sex/death in the horror genre is nothing new,in 50's films there was always plenty monsters creeping around some lovers lane,and in the 60's, Hammer films,particularly Christopher Lee as Dracula plastered sex and death all over a technocolored screen,and of course the 70's and 80's saw legions of scantily clad,over sexed teens being hunted by mad slashers/monsters,this of course continues with todays Saw/Hostile films,it's a progresion of sorts,it's not that the overall idea has changed so much,it's just that the camera dosn't flinch much any more.

I guess my tastes lie in the Hammer Horror and other movies of the 70's and 80's, I can see the progression of it from 1970's boobfests to 2000's Torture/splatter porn movies, so where do you think this will lead to in the future?

Wolfgang wrote:I guess my tastes lie in the Hammer Horror and other movies of the 70's and 80's, I can see the progression of it from 1970's boobfests to 2000's Torture/splatter porn movies, so where do you think this will lead to in the future?

I too love the old Hammer films,and would honestly like to see a resurgence of that type of movie,the upcoming remake of the classic Lon Chaney "The Wolfman" looks promising.
But as far as a complette demise of "splatter porn",I don't see it happening,to much of a market for it.

I think that's just it. We think splatter movies have too much sex nowadays but think back to the classics of the 50's; some of those horror movies had girls in dresses/skirts that would have been considered too short and risque out in public.

FFS, Elvis was considered pornographic with what he did on stage and now, in this day and age, what HS kids do at their dances would have the Elvis haters rolling in their graves (and how they dress as well).

I also think as adults it's also a lot harder (normally) to get scared. Poltergeist freak the hell out of me when I first watched it at 8 years old. Now, I actually yawn and laugh and generally don't pay much attention to it now. I'd love to be scared again but I don't think a movie could ever really do that to me now.

I don't know how anyone can watch those movies.

We are to close to this time period to be able to view it in context yet. I'm sure 10 or 20 years from now we will see it differently. Horror movies, perhaps more than other genres, really reflect something about their decade. I have no doubt that in the following years the connection between Abu Ghraib and the 'torture porn' will be thoroughly explored and dissected.

Now I wish I wrote a paper on that instead of just saying it out loud.

I can say though I have enjoyed the more recent remakes of classic slasher movies.

I really liked the Friday the 13th remake by Micheal Bay and Rob Zombies remake of Halloween (haven't seen the 2nd one as theatre has been under renovation since august) and TCM was good as well. Hard to get over Jessica Alba in that white tank top in that one...mmmmmm.

As I had no interest in seeing any of the previous Saw movies (waste of film IMO) the answer is no.

Zathras wrote:As I had no interest in seeing any of the previous Saw movies (waste of film IMO) the answer is no.

While I generally agree, the first one is at least worth a peak.

I like saw i hope it releases on X-box live soon.

I think 8 out of 10 people on this board could write as good or better a movie. All it takes is a little brainstorming to figure some sadistic way of killing someone and how stupid the person is to fall into a trap while their character is being set up to be loved or hated by the audience.
Half the D&D games I used to be in had more plot than these movies.

Saw 1 was pretty good.

Saw 2 was OK.

I stopped after that.

Relapse wrote:I think 8 out of 10 people on this board could write as good or better a movie. All it takes is a little brainstorming to figure some sadistic way of killing someone and how stupid the person is to fall into a trap while their character is being set up to be loved or hated by the audience.
Half the D&D games I used to be in had more plot than these movies.

actually i think if you were to put a Dnd session with a sadistic DM to film it would make a pretty good torture/horror movie

I may be able to help there.