@dramypsyd I had no idea that was a thing!
Personally, I loved the Saw movie but I think for reasons most people don't:
I assume that most people who really like it are horror enthusiasts and like the violence, tensions, creepiness, etc. But what I really liked about the movie is the social experiment / psycho analytical tests that reveal the character's true personality.
Most horror movies are shallow, but Saw has some interesting depth that I'd never seen in a horror movie before.
@ike @dramypsyd The classic, enduring horror movies have that sort of thing, though often about different topics. For example, Alien is *strongly* anti-capitalist. It’s not even subtext. “Priority One. Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable.” is literally text on a screen in the movie. The horror comes from the idea that some faceless corporation decided to risk their lives without even telling them.
I’m not personally a fan of the torture porn aspects of Saw. In the “show people who they really are” subgenre, I prefer The Thing.
@bob_zim @dramypsyd Oh please tell me more about The Thing's social experiments?
@ike @dramypsyd It’s not intentional experimentation inside the movie, but the result is similar: isolate people, apply severe stress, and show who they really are. In The Thing, this was done by Lancaster and Carpenter (writer and director). In Saw, it’s moved into the framing. Like the difference between a narrator who isn’t a character, and a character narrating the movie as if telling the story after the fact.
