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Three DIABOLICAL SHORTS for HALLOWEEN

October 29th 2009 22:57
Spooky halloween
“If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw.” So goes the tagline to the endless series of increasingly mindless and gutless (both figuratively and literally) installments in the ongoing “puzzle” of serial killer John Kramer aka Jigsaw. Well, with Saw VI just released, I guess it must be Halloween then. Woo hoo!

I’ve already reviewed Saw VI, ‘nuff said. However I recently watched the original short, Saw, that director James Wan and writer and actor Leigh Whannell made in an effort to woo Hollywood financiers so that they could make a feature version. The rest is lamentable history. Okay, so the first Saw (2004) is alright, although I’ve never actually reviewed it, but the sequels are truly punishing (pun intended).

Saw teaser poster
The original short, which is essentially a suggestive staging of the first movie’s main set-piece, is an effective attention-grabber. Another curiosity is that Saw producer Mark Burg likens the Saw movies to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or Se7en (1995), and as superior in terms of characterisation and narrative than to Hostel (2006). Pull the other one mate; it’s got bloody bells on it!

So enough pulling faces, let’s have some tricks with our treats! Three short films; two from Australia (Saw and Advantage) and one from Britain (Virus), delving into tortuous game-playing, high-tech cyber-spectres, and supernatural shenanigans on the open court. Wicked trickery indeed.

Have a helluva Halloween fellow horrorphiles!

Saw (2003)


Virus (2002)


Advantage (2007)

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