Saw is a fantastic horror film that will have you hiding behind the sofa. Two men wake up in a locked room both are chained to a pipe, they have no idea how they got there, their capturer uses mind games to try and turn the two men against each other and gives them gruesome ultimatums that seem to be their only chance of survival. The police are hunting their capturer who is a killer that seems to be picking his victims at random and is finding the most gruesome ways of killing them. The police are stuck until one victim manages to escape and offers the police an obscure clue to what the killers motives could possibly be...... A relatively unknow cast ...  Read the complete review

Saw [18] Released: 2004, Run time: 103 minutes, Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery. Film only review. Plot Synopsis In a dingy unused public bathroom Adam Faulkner-Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) awakens to find himself chained, by the ankle, to a pipe. At the opposite side of the room Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) finds himself in the same bewildering position. Neither men have any recollection of how they got there or why they are there. In the middle of the bathroom lies a corpse soaked in blood and clutching a gun and a tape recorder. Eager to figure out what is happening to them the two supposed strangers begin to look for any clue as to what ...  Read the complete review

Believe the hype and the Saw series will make you regurgitate your tea; it will stop you from sleeping and if you do sleep, give you nightmares; it will steal your car, empty your bank account and sleep with your wife/husband/partner/significant other. Believe the hype and this is as close to true horror as you can get without watching a snuff movie. Believe the hype, and you'll believe anything. Believe the evidence of your eyes, on the other hand and you'll see is an interesting, competent, original, but over-hyped film. The concept is very simple and instantly grabs your attention. Two men wake up in a grubby bathroom, chained to a radiator, a ...  Read the complete review

If there’s one perennial problem with horror flicks it’s that they rarely attract the best actors. Recent notable exceptions include Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling homage to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and the exceptional “Se7en”. “Saw” is billed as an even darker adaptation of the themes explored in Seven. If only the acting had been as good…. ------------------------------------------------ Director: James Wan Cert: 18 Run time: 102 mins Main cast: Leigh Whannell - Adam Cary Elwes - Dr. Lawrence Gordon Danny Glover - Detective David Tapp Ken Leung - Detective Steven Sing Dina Meyer – Kerry Mike Butters – ...  Read the complete review

I seem to have become more of a cinema goer in recent times. I’ve been quite a few times in the last couple of months, but I seem to keep choosing the wrong films to watch when I go. I’d heard a lot of good things about Saw and it was with great expectation that I decided to watch it. Especially as it has been heralded as the scariest movie of the year, I take it they didn’t see the Legend of Ron Burgandy. The film has a bit of a different feel to it, which I thought would make it a good film, shame it didn’t turn out that way. We meet out characters for the first time in a dark room. Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes up to find himself sat in a bathtub in a dark ...  Read the complete review