One of the most successful franchises on the past ten years, and of all time, is about to come full circle, or so they allege. The Saw franchise has been a big hit since the first film hit theaters in 2004. Since then, it spawned six sequels, including the latest...
The Saw franchise is, without a doubt, the most successful horror franchise of the past decade. The first film is a modern day horror classic. I didn’t care much for the second and third films, but I really enjoyed the fourth. I skipped the fifth in theaters and have...
In box office terms, after an unprecedented run of five major international hits in five years, the SAW franchise appears to have finally grown tired : this film’s opening weekend (while still rendering the film instantly profitable) halved the initial take of its...
The fifth SAW movie in five consecutive years – with a now-expected $30million opening weekend confirming the series as the genre’s most successful franchise ever – is all too clearly the work of an ongoing franchise that wishes its third entry (evidently...
Although blessed with the kind of show-stopping splatter set pieces that dominated its immediate predecessor, the fourth SAW film in four years (with at least two more to come, ye gods!) feels a lot like a film too far. SAW III, with its operatic gore and elaborate...
At the close of the Saw trilogy, none of the key players behind the franchise were set to return. However, return they did as Darren Lynn Bousman takes his seat for a third time behind the camera. Yet co-creator Leigh Whannell finally gets to rest his weary hand as he...
