This isn't true horror.

Rating: 4/10 (30 October 2005)

It's not that people do not appreciate the concept of the movie, it is that there is very little content in Saw 1 and 2. The Saw movies, the scream movies, etc. are not true horror films to me. They are both bloody, gory thriller/mystery movies. The Shining is a horror movie, as is The Exorcist or Amityville Horror. TCM is again just a bloody slasher flick. Horror movies should make the viewer go home scared, go home making you want to turn n every light before you go into a room. Saw is not that movie, I don't go to bed fearing that I will wake up in a dank room with poison in the air. However, when I watch The Shining, Poltergeist, or even the Freddy movies, I still get creeped out even after the movie is finished. The critics are right, loud noises, quick cut-scenes,and gore may make people jump but they are not, by definition, scary.