Jigsaw has more games to play…

I can’t believe it has been 10 years since Bloody Disgusting got behind the phenomenon known as Saw. After a slew of test screenings, and my rave review of the film, Lionsgate took a chance on James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s Sundance Film Festival indie and was rewarded greatly. Now, six sequels and 10 years later, Lionsgate is celebrating the franchise with a re-release of Wan’s classic that was more Giallo than slasher.

The film will open on Friday, October 31st, with select screenings beginning Thursday night, October 30th. The seven Saw films grossed $874 million at the box office worldwide and were hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Most Successful Horror Franchise” of all time.

Saw was the first collaboration for co-creators James Wan, who directed the film, and Leigh Whannell, who wrote the screenplay. Together, they also created the successful Insidious franchise, and Wan has gone on to direct such high-profile films as The Conjuring.

Directed by Wan from a script penned by Whannell, Saw is a psychological thriller focusing on two men who wake up in a secure lair of a serial killer, with a dead body lying between them. The killer, nicknamed “Jigsaw,” leaves them tape recorded messages with details of how to make it out alive. The only way for one man to make it out alive is to do the unthinkable. The two men desperately try to find a way out, while also trying to figure out who’s behind their kidnapping.

The film, which was released over Halloween weekend on October 29, 2004, was produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, and Mark Burg.