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Good evening, children of the night.

Just the other night, I watched a film that I hadn't seen for quite some time, the 2004

horror film saw.

I recall seeing it in theaters and having my mind absolutely blown, after having the story throw red herring after

red herring to have the final twist at the ending. I would say that overall, the movie has aged well.

There is a cinematic choice that the movie uses several times to really sell the panic of a

trapped character by circling that character with a camera and using

rough cuts to the action.

At the time, that was used rather illiberally in many horror films.

I think that Thirteen Ghosts used it also, and I think that has now largely fallen away

as a valid visual.

It seems a bit ham-handed now.

But Saw was made for a little over a million dollars, and according to IMDB is now at a worldwide gross of $103 million, making it a tremendous

return on investment for whoever financed it. I am less familiar with the sequels, but I'm

told that some are worthy successors and

others are not so well executed. I do know that Saw spawned a small subgenre of torture horror,

which I recall being largely bad. The hostile movies, for example, I remember hating,

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