I've decided to watch more Saw movies...

As a giant wimp who didn't start watching much horror until the 2010s, I have a big gore/slasher hole in my film knowledge. I have made up a lot of lost ground over the last decade, but the Saw movies are still a blind spot for me. When I was in high school and college, they were notorious for over-the-top, exploitative gore. At least... that was the impression they gave off! Last November, I watched Saw for the first time. I did this specifically so that I could see the unofficial Saw parody musical, which I completely failed to blog about because I got distracted by Thanksgiving. Here is a trailer which gives away quite a lot about the production. If you're planning to someday see it, I'd avoid watching this at all so you can just be surprised by how some of the onstage gore effects work: Anyway! I watched Saw so that I could see this musical, and I ended up liking the original film a lot. It has some deranged performances [laudatory]. It was also way less gory than its marketing…