This is one scary movie!

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2004)

Every once in awhile, the Sundance Film Festival shows a movie that somehow gets inside your head and won't leave. A few years back, it was a film called the 'Blair Witch Project'. This year the movie is called 'Saw'.
The movie is not a slasher type flick, and it doesn't contain many of the cheap scares that most of today's thrillers tend to have. What it does do, is use it's moody music, jittery camera movements, and lightning paced editing to get in under your skin. Trying not to put any spoilers out there, I won't divulge any of the twists or turns. All I can say is hold on tight, and try not to take your eyes off the screen.
The basic premise is two gentlemen awake to find themselves chained to piping in a dirty abandoned bathroom. Neither of them know how they got there, or why they are there. And to make matters worse, a dead body lays in the middle of the floor, killed by a self inflicted gunshot wound. For the next 100 minutes, your taken on a rollercoaster ride of terror as they piece together their memories, and try to figure out the puzzle of how to escape from the room.
This is one scary movie! At least, in my opinion.