A look back at the first Saw movie, released in 2004, and its impact on the horror genre on the 20th anniversary.
Saw pioneered a whole new subgenre of horror and it deserves all the respect It’s been 20 years since Saw was released and, even with a franchise declining in quality, I’ve been unable to escape its trap. My memories of first watching director James Wan’s classic after its release in 2004 are vivid; my cousins and I huddled on sofas in my grandma’s living room obsessively rewatching one of the twistiest horror movies we’d seen.
Would you trust the stranger you’re trapped with? Would you saw off a limb to save yourself? Would you play along with Jigsaw’s game? It presents you with very real questions in an extreme situation and that’s probably what drew in such a vast audience in the first place – the fact that the original was more of a psychological thriller with elements of horror before the franchise descended into an outright gorefest of eyes gouging out, torsos being ripped apart and people falling into pits of...
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