The Most Brutal in the Series: Saw III

Over the year I've managed to get a few DVDs in my collection via Anchor Bay Entertainment for promoting them on my publishing company, LAKE FOSSIL PRESS, but this was the first time I got a new movie in a long time and for my birthday yesterday so I just sat down and tossed the DVD into the player since I had some downtime from editing -- I've seen the other two films so I knew what was going on when I was watching this one. I knew that SAW was brutal and a lot of the authors in the anthology series I edit recommended that I watched it. I am curious to see the short film it was based on. I will say this -- the writers of this film are a couple of sick fucks. I've published stories that went for the throat, but of all the stories I read -- nothing compares to SAW as a trilogy. Lionsgate Pictures is a company that knows horror, and knows how to really scare people in the process. SAW as a series of films are infamous for the intense levels of gore and violence, but the story demands it. I normally don't puke during horror films but there are only a few that made me gag or throw up. I was lucky I wasn't eating during this one because there were scenes in this one that would have the gag reflex. The Jigsaw character as a horror villain is one sick fuck.

I have to comment about how gruesome the deaths are in this one, the one that really got to me was the guy who gets blown up in the beginning. And believe me, this was the sickest scene in the film -- even then they had to top it. I don't know what the guys who penned SAW were smoking but damn they must been up all night watching heavy metal videos to get some sick ideas how to take the horror genre to a new extreme. If these guys were writing a short story for the film, and the House of Pain E-zine is still active -- they'd be a good fit on there too. Unlike many of the slasher counterparts that this film is unfairly tagged to be, this one is a genuine mindfuck of a horror film. You put two young talented individuals together and they create a horror film that rivals any printed form of the extreme horror genre.