Awww crap... Saw VIII

[Rowsdower!]

This is old news but I just found out about it. I guess it was only a matter of time before Lionsgate revived the dead horse they beat repeatedly for a number of years.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/jigsaw-will-return-in-saw-viii

Oh, well. At least it's a paycheck for Tobin Bell.

 

[Teelie]

I don't get the appeal of these movies. I tried watching one once. I couldn't get through it. They are dirt cheap to make though so all it takes are a few people wanting to see people butcher themselves for fun.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Saw used to be really cool, to me at least. That coolness went down a slippery slope pretty quick after I watched the fourth one.

 

[Figs]

I really wish the Saw, Paranormal Activity and Resident Evil franchises would die. No one is forcing me to watch them of course but it's annoying seeing them pump out sequel after sequel and seeing that a fair amount of people are still flocking to the theaters to watch them.

 

[Warhammer]

In a parallel universe, Saw would have never had a sequel and would be lauded as one of the greatest horror films ever made. But then they done went and tarnished that s***.

 

[Teelie]

I like the Resident Evil movies but I don't pretend they're anything more than explosions of zombies and bad dialogue with lots of blood and gore. Saw just comes off as people being forced to torture themselves and each other for amusement and Paranormal Activity is for people who can't watch a real horror movie and instead opt for people scaring themselves with shadows and noises.

 

[KevanG]

Really? Bah. I liked the first, found the second and third stupid then my roommate made me watch all of them and they were beyond stupid.

 

[Donut]

There has not been news on this since November 2013 as the date in the article. I would not worry about it

 

[SpideyFan866]

As someone who is a big fan of this series, and was very satisfied with how "The Final Chapter" wrapped things up, this disappoints me.

The only way I can approve is if [blackout]Gordon[/blackout] is the new Jigsaw and/or a it has a REALLY good story with a very good copycat/new jigsaw character.

 

[SpideyFan866]

In a parallel universe, Saw would have never had a sequel and would be lauded as one of the greatest horror films ever made. But then they done went and tarnished that s***.

I personally believe Saw still is one of the greatest horror films of all time.

I also believe that, despite the quality of many of the individual films, it has the best story of any horror franchise.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

I've seen 'em all and the only one that had a uniqueness to it was the first one... after that, it just became the same old same old... though I DID get a kick at how they were released every following year at Halloween time...

 

[Maximus One]

I loved the first 4 and 5 and 6 were ok. 7 ****ed it all up. I'm still down for more though, they needa at least fix everything stupid the last film did

 

[Heretic]

I didn't see the last one because I got bored with the concept...but I was under the impression that they wrapped up the main story. I'm fine with them making sequels to movies I don't watch. For instance, I've never heard a single second of Justin Bieber's music...so he doesn't bother me one bit, so neither does the existence of movies that I don't watch.

My biggest hope is that this means that there will be another season of Scream Queens. Why SyFy hasn't picked that show up is beyond me (they could have the winning artist from Face Off and the winning actress from Scream Queens both work on a SyFy original movie, so it's half a year of hype for a film they would already be planning to do).

 

[X Knight]

they're making another one of these?? and they're already on VIII??

 

[Maximus One]

The final film answered some questions but raised a few more and left a few story threads hanging but not too much. I loved Saw when it first came out but I recognize it for what it is. People that hate on movies they supposedly couldn't give a **** less about has always just been weird to me.

 

[KevanG]

The only question they really had left was what happened to Gordon after the first and we got that.

 

[Quasimod0]

Another? I'm not a fan of the torture movies, so I don't really see the appeal.

 

[John Locke]

Yeah this isn't going to happen. Three-ish months since the announcement and not even a "hey we're still doing this." Horror has moved on. When did the last torture movie come out? Now it's jump scare movies. Doors opening by themselves, scary faces turn to the camera. Look at all of the failed reboots of the slasher genre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream 4. All came and went cause Saw's torture killed the slasher and now Paranormal Activity's jump scares have killed the torture.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I like the Resident Evil movies but I don't pretend they're anything more than explosions of zombies and bad dialogue with lots of blood and gore. Saw just comes off as people being forced to torture themselves and each other for amusement and Paranormal Activity is for people who can't watch a real horror movie and instead opt for people scaring themselves with shadows and noises.

I disagree on PA, only because the last one actually tried to do something with the story, and also I like them but watch lots of real horror films. I do agree on resident Evil, and I agree on Saw starting around Part IV.

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

What's funny is that, while on my way home from work, I joked in my head about Lionsgate milking out another Saw movie. I guess reality decided to follow suit.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I'm not a fan of the series, but were you guys really expecting something different? Jigsaw has become as iconic as Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, etc... & Iconic=Big Bucks, especially for low budget horror movies.

 

[Man in the Suit]

I personally believe Saw still is one of the greatest horror films of all time.

I also believe that, despite the quality of many of the individual films, it has the best story of any horror franchise.

Yep!

Anybody who says the Saw movies are all about torture have never watched them.

 

[Maximus One]

Agreed wholeheartedly. Haters gonna hate.

 

[Maximus One]

And besides, horror franchises SUCK. Badly so. NOES is my favorite but there really isn't much to the stories there and Halloween and Friday The 13th are ok but both have plenty of ****** installments. And people talk **** about Saw cuz of the "torture porn" thing. It's preposterous. The Saw franchise has one of the most dense mythologies of any horror franchise ever and actually has an over arcing storyline through each film. It really is good. Every time I see people hate on them I can't help but think they haven't really say and watched them all. Franchises have ****** installments all the time. Still wont dissuade me any

 

[Teelie]

I'm not a fan of the series, but were you guys really expecting something different? Jigsaw has become as iconic as Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, etc... & Iconic=Big Bucks, especially for low budget horror movies.

I wouldn't call him as iconic, especially since apparently, he's not even the same person from movie to movie. He's a facade people use when they want to set up these torture sets.

Yep!

Anybody who says the Saw movies are all about torture have never watched them.

I haven't watched all of them, only parts of one and the parts I saw were torture in the literal and figurative sense. Maybe out of context I got it wrong but you cannot pump out seven movies in under a six years and call it quality. Or original. Or good. I'll give the first one, maybe the second credit to being better maybe (I'd have to watch them but the audience numbers at least give them popularity) but a movie every year for six years means there wasn't a lot of thought or originality put into them.

And besides, horror franchises SUCK. Badly so. NOES is my favorite but there really isn't much to the stories there and Halloween and Friday The 13th are ok but both have plenty of ****** installments. And people talk **** about Saw cuz of the "torture porn" thing. It's preposterous. The Saw franchise has one of the most dense mythologies of any horror franchise ever and actually has an over arcing storyline through each film. It really is good. Every time I see people hate on them I can't help but think they haven't really say and watched them all. Franchises have ****** installments all the time. Still wont dissuade me any

Most franchises do suck but the degrees of suck depend on the effort made to make them not suck. At least Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, etc. had a few years between each installment to give them some time to develop more than a half-assed excuse to watch people cut themselves and each other into pieces for the amusement of some sadistic watcher.

There is no shortage of hate for most of the big horror franchise sequels. Especially the Friday the 13th ones and even the Nightmare on Elm Street ones where it just went stupid near the end.