The popular horror franchise Saw has officially announced a third instalment to its gruesome series. Considering the soaring success of the first two, this is absolutely no surprise.
And thank goodness for that – it’s been too long since we’ve seen a film with extended scenes of explicit burning death, men getting nails stabbed through their heads, people getting their eyes shot out and people cutting their feet off. Apart from Big Momma’s House 2, of course.
It was almost two years ago that movie fans everywhere were horrified
by several short movie clips that swarmed the internet with gory images
of death and torture. These movie clips were to promote the upcoming
movie Saw (DVDs). The film was released at Halloween time 2004. Saw has since
gone on to massive financial success, so it was no surprise that Lions
Gate pushed for a sequel; and now again after another huge success the studio
has announced a third instalment to the Saw franchise that has already hit
cult status.
The initial Saw had a production budget of only $1.2 million, but it
made over $100 million for its worldwide gross, so it was
obvious that Lions Gates would quickly start production for a sequel.
So quickly in fact, that the second instalment of the series was
released only one year later. Saw 2 had a
production budget of $5 million and grossed even more than the
first; as a result it looks as though Lions Gate will be pushing out
sequel after sequel to this money-making horror machine for years to
come.
Saw 3 is expected to be released on October 27th 2006, only two years
after the release of the original. The studio is bringing back the
director of Saw 2, Darren Lynn Bousman, to direct the third
instalment. The Saw 3 script is to be based upon a story by James Wan and
Leigh Whannell, the script writers of the first Saw flick.
This has all happened before. A fresh new horror story comes along and
achieves high amounts of critical and financial praise and before we
know it the 12th movie in the series is on its way. Sadly with each
subsequent instalment we are all treated to less and less originality
and quality. Remember Halloween H20? Yeah, us neither.
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[story by Michael Van Orden]