A Brilliant Film - Clever and Scary.

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2005)

I pride myself on not being scared by horror movies (it's afterwards when my imagination gets going and it's dark that I get freaked out). Saw however brought tears of fear to my eyes and at one point my poor cat William, who was merrily sleeping on my lap, was flung into the air in fright. Saw is fantastic, the best horror movie I have seen, gruesome and so very clever. Whoever wrote it must have a very vivid and twisted mind. I can't go into too much detail without ruining the story. Two guys wake up in a room and they are chained by their ankles to thick metal pipes. There is a dead man in the middle of the floor and they are given instructions; one must kill the other or else his family will die. The creepiest thing in the whole film was the horrible clown like doll that rides a tricycle and relays the killer's messages. A lot of it has been done before - killing people to teach them a lesson (Seven), darkness and spooky noises, but the way that it all comes together and who the killer is, makes for one brilliant movie.