THE SAW SERIES
I am a huge horror fan, every decade there is
a new horror series that I'm fascinated with. All of the series that I would consider one to remember did quite well in box office, but also had a plot or reasoning for the killings, and had some kind of unique device for and or way of killing. The 70's had Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, which became a huge hit and still has remakes to this day!
The 80's had Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13. Both were very popular
and the characters from those films actually ended up fighting each other
in a 2003 film. Let’s not forget the 90s and the Scream films, they still make
parody films of that series. All of those film series took a place
in horror history as a classic, or series to remember. When you look at those
Texas Chainsaw films you see the crazy twisted family and the man wielding the
chainsaw. Jump ahead to the 80's and we see Friday the 13th with Jason, a man
wearing a hockey mask who stalks a town where he was drowned as a
child. Nightmare on Elm Street had Freddy who was burned alive and gets revenge
on a town by killing children in their dreams. Looking at the 90s with their
Scream series you get a man stalking houses, often calling them saying "I
can see you" which you can only imagine how creepy that would be. In the
2000s we have a series that brings those same requirements,yet adds a little something extra to all those past series, It goes by
the name Saw.
The original film was released in 2004
and did extremely at the box office even though having such a low budget.
"Grossing more than 100 million worldwide and becoming, at one time, one
of the most profitable films since 1996's Scream." The series has a little
of all those previous horror series', but adds a gigantic extra thing for all
the horror freaks of the world, torture. The Saw series is famous for the
gruesome and twisted ways people have to fight for their lives. Sometimes they
have to harm themselves, another person who is a complete stranger, and even a
loved one just to be free again. The series would have gotten very boring and
ended after the first two, but the directors did it right they made it a
torture series with a very good plot behind it. That allowed after three films
it could grossed over 160 million worldwide. The series went on to have
seven films all with great success. The final Saw was released in 2010 and it
was creatively done in 3D.
What makes allows this series to be so great is the plot,
like I said earlier. The story follows a man Jigsaw who was unfairly
wronged(much like Jason in Friday the 13th) He feels that people
don't have the will to live or as he called it "survival instinct."
What's so fascinating is the whole time this man who is doing extreme harm to
people, and he really feels like he is trying to help. You see a man who knows
where his next victims live(just like in Scream) and captures them. He takes
them to his secluded spot, where all of his "traps" and
"test" are located. Jigsaw has every bit of the craziness and
more that the man in the Texas Chainsaw movies had. The whole time he instills
in his victims the need for humans to have "the will to
survive" Creepy isn't it? That's not all though, the entire time the
police and doctors are trying to figure out where he is and how to stop him.
You even see people who survive the tests want to become him. For me I
love plots and twists and this one had it all.
Most people are not into the heavy torture horror flicks, it
makes them feel uneasy. I think that's what brought me to love the movies even
more. Just the fact I could handle it and loved the plot made it a joy. To be
clear when I say joy I don't mean it’s a fun movie, it’s more a joy in the fact
it’s very intense, but with a purpose. So many movies these days have torture
films where there is no real plot or reason for the brutality other than just
because. The hostile series were intense as well, but had no real reason for
the torture. I'm as a big a horror fan as the next guy but nobody just wants to
see people get hurt. That's why having a nice setting, and plot and background story
really makes you say why am I watching this, but I can’t seem stop.
If you enjoy horror films this series may be for enjoyable
if you can handle the times it will make you want to say oh my and turn your
head. This isn't a make you jump type a film, more along the lines
of suspense and gross. If you hate jumping out of your
seat, but think you have a pretty strong stomach this might be the series to
try out. Let's be clear though you need a strong stomach at times and you need
to want to watch it. This isn't the type of series you would want to just
watch for kicks.
All in all I really love a good horror series and there
seems to be one every decade. The 70's Texas Chainsaw, the 80s Friday the 13th
and Nightmare on Elm Street. The 90's was all scream and in the 00s it’s Saw.
The twisted Horror series with a great plot and a whole lot of things that
make you glad this is only a movie.
Work Cited
"Saw (franchise)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia
Foundation, 10 Jan. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2013.
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