Song of the Day--"70s 80s", Nightmares on Wax (feat. Lee Kenny)

"70s 80s" mp3, Nightmares on Wax (feat. Lee Kenny)

This one's for you Perry...

"Saw II"--Rating: 8 out of 10

From what I understand, the purpose to a horror sequel is to create bigger and better things than what the original brought you and also manage to maintain the same level of the unknown to keep the viewer interested without over doing it. I can't begin to tell how wonderfully Saw II acheives this goal. For those who haven't seen the original, Saw is about a "Jigsaw Killer" who places his subjects in situations or "games" where you have to choose life or death at a pretty hefty price. His subjects are those who have lived lives either in sin, betrayal, addicted to drugs, adulterers, thieves, etc. As long as you're doing something wrong on a day to day basis, you're probably going to be a prime target for his games. You *can* win the game and win life along with your freedom, as long as you play by the rules.

From the opening scene, Saw II immediately delivers what the audience felt at the final scene in the original. And that's not the only time. The intensity level in this movie is definitely high not to mention extremely gory. There was never a slow or dull moment and the games kept coming. Of course, there's always clues for the audience to guess what's coming next, but similar to the first, I never anticipated the ending. The psychological aspect of the film really creates a new level of a horror/thriller film that certainly has set the bar for the future. The beauty about this film is the layout wasn't 100% different from the first. They were *very* similar in a lot of aspects yet delivered an overall completely different scenario. I'm sure they had about 10x the budget they had from the first, but I couldn't tell. Bottom line: if you're into this kind of shit, go see it now.

~WW