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Cast List for ‘Saw 7′ May Contain Spoilers
Somewhere along the lines, the Saw franchise went from being lauded as great, original horror to being decried as a dead horse being kicked inside a reverse bear trap while listening to a scratchy...
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The Human Centipede and Mainstream Curiosity, A Deadly Combination
It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. That’s what they will tell you. And the most frightening thing about the entire situation is that they are right. They being the people who market unique horror...
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Saw VII Teaser Makes You Watch
While the series has taken a beating over the past few years, it showed some promise with its last installment, but even that excitement was curtailed by the franchise showing its age. For whatever...
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Criterion Files #368: Corridors of Blood
A few weeks back a handful of the Film School Rejects team, along with a few other close friends, decided to take a brief departure from the always incredible, though occasionally exhaustive,...
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31 Days of Horror: The Collector
When the calendar page turns to October, we Rejects have only one thought: horror. To celebrate this grandest and darkest of months, we’ll cover one excellent horror film a day for the entirety of the...
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Advisory: ‘Saw 3D’ Co-Writer Marcus Dunstan On This Sunday’s Reject Radio
Marcus Dunstan bounded onto the scene because of Project Greenlight, but he’s since made a bloody mess of his career by writing for the Saw franchise with writing partner Patrick Melton and sitting in...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: October 29, 2010
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr celebrated Halloween by dressing up as a slutty nurse and watching the latest Saw movie. Then he dressed up as a slutty lawyer and watched the latest slice of Oscar bait...
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Review: Saw 3D in 2D
It’s become an annual tradition for me to review a Saw film, and the ritual has resided somewhere between the sheer joy of bloodlust and the agony of feeling like the theater seat I was in came with...
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Boiling Point: Jigsaw is Dead, Long Live Jigsaw
This weekend the “final” installment of the Saw franchise cut into theaters, slicing off about $22 million in ticket receipts for itself, an improvement over the opening weekend take of the previous...
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Can We Stop Calling it Torture Porn Already?
It’s time to put an end to it. Since David Edelstein’s 2006 article about Hostel, the phrase “Torture Porn” has been bloated short hand for any movie that features torture or excessive gore. Beyond...
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Because You Asked For It: More ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Rebooting
Since October’s over, it’s time to finally start talking about horror, and the future of horror is the past. It was clear that, when Platinum Dunes walked away from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre rights...
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Lionsgate Rolls the Dice on ‘Cube’
More than a decade before Splice (and most notably before Saw) director Vincenzo Natali made a film called Cube wherein a group of strangers woke up inexplicably in a maze of cubes that had been booby...
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12 Shorts That Grew Into Full-Length Movies
Like the dinosaur blood found inside ancient, tree sap-encased mosquitoes, short films can often be cultivated and grown into something bigger and more rewarding: a feature film (sorry if you were...
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Movie News After Dark: Rise of the Apes Mural, Sherlock Returns, Nolan Speaks...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a thing that chronicles the day in movie news. Or in many cases, a day’s worth of interesting articles that you should be reading. If you want a bunch of trade news...
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‘The Conjuring’ Trailer Uses Old-School Scare Tactics To Freak You the Hell Out
Generally it takes a horror movie a chunk of time for it to start being scary. You have to establish a spooky atmosphere, a sense of dread, and then let the tension build to a breaking point before...
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‘Saw’ Director James Wan to Go From Cutting People Up to Crashing Cars With...
The Fast and the Furious, successful as it was, probably never really struck anyone as the sort of film that would spawn a franchise that would make it to its seventh feature. But here we are, many...
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8 Ridiculously Elaborate Faked Deaths In Movies
The best part about faking your death has to be getting to decide how it will all go down. Instead of a bathroom heart attack, you can have fun with it and get mauled by a bear or spontaneously...
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6 Filmmaking Tips from James Wan
James Wan is one of the most adaptive directorial personalities in modern genre filmmaking, but his career didn’t always seem like it would turn out this way. Wan’s Saw was an indie mega-hit, spawning...
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The 8 Greatest Movie Monster Reveals
Picturehouse Most horror films fall apart in the third act. This is an indisputable fact. Think about how good Insidious was up until they point that they showed the goofy Darth Maul wannabe demon....
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38 Things We Learned from the ‘Saw’ Commentary
Lions Gate Films “If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw.” That was Lionsgate’s tag line to the Saw franchise for years. It all began in 2004 when then-unknown horror director James Wan delivered a very...
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Broken Projector: Characters Pushed to the Edge
Egg Films It’s been a hell of a week, so it would be great to talk about films that make us happy. Unfortunately, that’s not the show we prepped. Instead, we’ve got a dissection of characters who are...
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12 Movies to See After You Watch ‘Saw’
Anchor Bay Entertainment Not only is this week the 10th anniversary of the release of Saw, but the movie is also back in theaters as of today in commemoration of the occasion. Conceived by James Wan...
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The 12 Weirdest Times Movies Were Turned Into Video Games
Rare/LJN/The Geffen Film Company Most video game adaptations make some sort of sense. Like a game based on a kids’ movie, or a popular action franchise, or something like that. Hell, in the 1980s, they...
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18 Good Movies to Watch on Netflix This April
Magnolia Pictures Crash has recently been added to Netflix. If one didn’t know any better, they might see that it’s a Best Picture winner, think that it’s worth checking out, and then waste an entire...
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Reality Shows Based On Action Movies Might Be the Downfall of Civilization
Twentieth Century Fox Life imitates art all the time, but that doesn’t mean Hollywood needs to capitalize on this fact. Especially if it means the increased chance that our reality entertainment...
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