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Originally Posted by .SSJBulma
Pulse was dreadful in my opinion, another teen non scary film. Even the cool Kristen Bell seemed to be channeling the acting powers of a piece of driftwood.
Saw is just gore essentially, you can say that there's a deep train of thought and well written scripts or whatever, but there's a difference between an entertaining scary film and something that doesn't quite scare someone but makes them feel horrid for watching it.
I wouldn't say Saw was about gore (and leave my statement at that), I'd say it was about people's fascination with sick and twisted scenarios. Most films can get points across without showing the slicing of tendons or the twisting bone cruching agony of a device strapped to a human being.
That's just my opinion, each to their own.
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Psychological horror only really works when you know something is about to happen. If somebody's foot gets cut and you just show their facial reaction, it isn't going to get as much of a rise out of people as actually showing it for a split second.
Also, if you say there was only gore and no story, you didn't pay much attention to any of the movies.
The first movie was two guys sitting in the room together with a dead body, who supposedly didn't know anything about each other. Shackled to the walls they have limited movement but are able to find two hacksaws, which they initially believe to be used to cut the chains. Throughout the movie, more information comes to light as to why they are there, and ultimately revealed that the younger guy has been taking photographs of the doctor visiting another woman.
The doctor is supposed to kill the younger guy to win the game and save his family. There is a gun (which the man who is dead blew his brains out with), and a pool of blood rich in a poison. Through a recording Jig-Saw tells the doctor he can put poison on the cigarette and kill the photographer. The doctor thinks better of it and plans on trying to fool Jig-Saw, who they believe to be watching through a camera and wouldn't be able to tell a fake death from the real thing. It doesn't work, and the doctor ends up freaking out and sawing off his own foot and crawling away in some desperate attempt to save his family (as we see later on, he doesn't make it far).
There's some action going on at the doctor's home, where a man (assumed to be Jig-Saw) has captured the wife and daughter of the doctor. There is a struggle over a gun and the wife manages to come out on top. Inside the room with the photographer, the dead body that's been laying in the center rises up and peels away the "gore" on his head. Walks to the door and slams it shut, leaving the photographer to die inside.
Pretty good if I would say so myself.