Saw places a great story with exciting twists in a world of gore. 8/10

Rating: 8/10 (26 August 2013)

Saw is now nine years old and six sequels have already been made. I still felt like this was a movie worth reviewing in spite of the fact that most horror fans will have watched it a long time ago, since the Saw series are arguably the most successful films within the horror genre.
Having barely finished film school, James Wan and Leigh Whannell created Saw, a gory budget horror movie that would turn into a massive success.
One of the things Saw truly succeeds in is telling its story, its starts as a big puzzle which is pieced together brick by brick as the movie progresses. The story is generally very unpredictable and though the acting is not exactly amazing, the characters are very believable.
Saw also made a new standard for how gore can be used in horrors. While in the first saw movies, the characters are not exposed to THAT much gore and bloodiness you will still be turning your head away or burying it deep into your covers. This is because you actually see most of what is happening. In your usual horror movies, you will see the actors split-seconds before they are about to get hurt, then get cut away to them lying in a pool of blood. In Saw you are showing everything. This includes watching a man cut off his own leg.
With an amazing story, very decent acting, great directing and a no-less than beautiful soundtrack Saw deserves all the credit it has gotten, and is much more than a piece of torture-porn as some critics has deemed it.