In come the police, and this time they have very little trouble apprehending the creatively kooky killer. I see a kinetic, exciting, and enjoyably intense inner struggle that ends with a crimson thwack. In this sequence some see pointlessly ugly desperation and gore for gore's sake. ![]() Suffice to say that sick ol' Jigsaw is up to his nasty tricks again: The prologue delivers a sequence in which one unfortunate guy gets his head squashed inside of a nail-coated, metallic venus-fly-trap mask thingamajig. This sequel doesn't slavishly follow up with the precise ending of Part 1, but it comes close enough to keep the loyal fans entertained. Much of the movie is also your standard slasher stew mixed with some half-decent police procedural stuff - but when Saw 2 gets rolling with those gruesome, gritty puzzles, I think it's the coolest thing this side of Clive Barker's nasty ol' horror stories. Throughout both of these rusty little Saw movies, I'm posed with the question of " What would you do if you had to saw your own foot off / dig through a corpse's innards for a key / remand another person to death so that I might survive?" Saw 2 is the horror equivalent of that "Book of Questions" that we all bought and then broke out at parties. I wouldn't go as far as to call Saw 2 a cerebral experience, but there's just something devilishly appealing about horror material that works in your brain and not just in your gut. By this point we already know how I feel about the Saw series, so you won't hurt my feelings if you skip down to the DVD specs.) (Note: The movie review section comes from my previous review(s) of Saw 2.
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