Product Description

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 306 minutes Rating: Ur

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19746 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 316 minutes

Customer Reviews

Top class horror and gore
This is a top class horor and gore flick. I'm not a great fan of this genre but a friend made me see it with him and I must admit that this was a revelation. Saying that I enjoyed it would probably suggest that I had a screw loose in my head but for the movie's sake only, it was great. There's a story (thank god) and the action... Its a little off the beaten path but thankfully so.

If you enjoy a horror movie and chills and suspense and shock, then this movie will not disappoint you. Well done...

A great metaphor about life
I want to play a game. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. Tonight, you'll show me. The irony is that if you want to die you just have to stay where you are, but if you want to live, you'll have to cut yourself again. Don't try to perpetrate white collar crimes like everyone else who is connected because, unlike them, you won't get a slap on the wrist. Find the path through the cultural madness. At 3:00 that door will lock and then, this country becomes your tomb. Due to oil profits your fuel cost will increase. The subprime will result in foreclosure and will decrease the value of your house. Increased fuel costs and other factors will raise food prices. Government contracts will be given to Airbus instead of an American company and the tax rebate check will be a bag of peanuts which you will owe on later on. Your children will be introduced to the "new math." Your job will be outsourced due to cheaper labor overseas and the only merchandise you buy will be made overseas. 65,000 H-1B visas will be granted to foreign workers while 65,000 Americans with a technical background are in placed in unemployment. Your borders will be unpoliced while we warn you of the potential danger of terrorists. Your President will get you in a war while the country is bankrupt. Your military infrastructure will be deconstructed and government contracts will be handed out to people with a purely mercenary interest who will charge five times the costs of goods and services your own government could otherwise provide. Your foreign policy will serve Israeli interests. You will have a choice of two candidates who will make empty promises and maintain the status quo. GAME OVER!

Not so original...
It is not exactly true that James Wan et Leigh Whannell have written Saw. They should have mention that they "borrowed" a lot from The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) written by James Whiton et William Goldstein. You will find less blood in the Phibes movies, but a lot more humour (with Robert "the avengers" Fuest as the director, and Vincent Price as the sadistic killer).
Fans of Saw, if you want to know the real origin of this story, watch "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (1971) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again! (1972).