Chapter One - First Film: Saw (2004)
Our first film in Splatterfest feels like the one that started it all: Saw (2004). The Saw franchise is a modern classic of shock horror. For the uninitiated, it is a film about a killer trapping people he deems 'unworthy' or 'unappreciative' of their life in deadly games of bloodshed. Two men find themselves captives of the Jigsaw Killer's deadly game. James Wan makes his directorial debut with this film, his later films including Insidious, The Conjuring, Annabelle and (in a strange twist) Aquaman. Writer Leigh Whannell, who would go on to write Insidious, Upgrade, and The Invisible Man (2020), drafted the script with Wan as their first production out of film school. Originally written in 2001, the film would not go on to get made until Twisted Pictures was formed to fund it. Saw (2004) would go on to make a massive 104 million dollar box office on a small 1.2 million dollar budget (55.1 million in US and Canada). It would go on to make another 70 million dollar...
