They do make them like they used to.

Sometimes I think we never do anything as well as we used to. Not that I was alive to see what we used to do! I’m talking here about music and other forms of entertainment. It’s like Raul Duke’s comment from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in reference to the sixties…

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Saw Culture

If you’ve never seen any of the Saws… well, they aren’t really (and by not really, I mean not at all) family friendly. Like other recent gore-fests, e.g. Hostel (2005), they are designed to make you bring up whatever you ate for lunch and possibly breakfast too. For instance, the first film gave you a man forced to saw off his own foot, the third a nice bit of brain-surgery and the last sequel the full autopsy of the recently-deceased antagonist/antihero of the entire series – John Kramer (Tobin Bell), AKA “The Jigsaw Killer”. These films aren’t, as you would imagine, everyone’s cup of tea.

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