Saw B+ R, 100 m with Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and Monica Potter. Directed by James Wan. Opens tomorrow.
"Saw" opens with a woman struggling against a steel jaw trap timed to rip her face in half if she does not kill the man held captive along with her. Her captor is Jigsaw, a terminally ill patient who takes it upon himself to teach the world a lesson about the value of the human life. According to Jigsaw, the woman was devaluating her life because she was a drug addict.
Her fellow prisoner lies unconscious on the floor from an opiate overdose. Desperate to save her life, the woman repeatedly stabs him with what looked like a cheap fisherman's knife.
However, most of the film tells the story of Dr. Gordon, a prominent physician who, one day, wakes up in a subterranean bathroom that looks like a hideout for delinquent drug addicts. His roommates include Adam, a photographer, and a blood-soaked individual who lies motionless on the cold bathroom floor. Jigsaw soon reveals his master plan for the captives, and presents them each with tests forcing them to choose between life and death.
If this doesn't sound scary enough, imagine it playing to the soundtrack of Rob Zombie's "House of 1,000 Corpses." The score's composer, Charlie Clouser, is a former member of Nine Inch Nails and has worked with Marilyn Manson and White Zombie. Clouser co-wrote "The One" with Alice Cooper, which won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Metal Performance.
During "Saw," you will be visually assaulted, your eardrums will vibrate and your heart will leap out of your chest. You will be disgusted as barbed wire rips through someone's flesh. But you will laugh when Adam delivers one-liners like, "I don't give a crap if you covered yourself in peanut butter and had a 15-hooker gang bang."
If you enjoyed Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," you will relish in the horrific adventure of "Saw"
