Mind The Sap

Errant ramblings, mostly.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

I Rented A Video...


So that you don’t have to.

Ever-keen on watching a horror with a high cheese factor combined with a high number of jolts-per-minute (Think Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead and the Scream troika) I rented Saw 2—a vile little flick about a suicidal man-cum-sociopath who survives a car crash of his own design, only to emerge with new vigor for life.

Eager to “help” others who have fallen prey to depression, addiction and/or social deviance, our villain subjects his victims to ridiculously overblown “challenges” which, if completed successfully, are supposed to excise their demons and help them foster a new appreciation for life.

The co-mingling of morality, thrills, chills, blood and guts in this film makes it obvious that it aspired to its infinitely more successful and complex daddy, Seven, but it falls way short. This film is base, yo. The audience doesn’t have time to sympathize with any one character because there are too darn many of them. The audience doesn’t have time to laugh at any of the hyperbolic violence, ‘cos its so darn… nasty. (Although I must say, I did experience an all new feeling of shock and awe when that chick was thrown into a vat full of syringes)


Saw 2 never made it to theatres. The original had a brief run. But at my local Blockbuster, there were, like, 20 copies of it on the new release wall, which means a lot of folks out there are renting this. Who are you freaks?

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

My very first post. Neither interesting nor profound. Fun to come, kids.