As this article points out a tradition for many teens and young adults on Halloween is to head down to ye' olde cinema and catch a scary flick and since the Saw franchise releases a new movie every year at that time, the kids see no other choice but to go see that one. Every year each saw sequel makes more money than the last one. In the consumer's mind, Saw is the big high profile horror movie, so much so that it's almost a sick and twisted household name. People want to see a horror movie and what rings to them as a recent horror movie is the saw movies so instead of looking for something new and fresh, they take the safe way out.
To tell you the truth I've stopped each roman numeral to which saw sequel it belongs to. Personally I don't even see the connection between Ancient Rome and people cutting off their own hands anyway. But not only have I lost track of the order of each movie, but also what movie i saw each weird torture device or gross-out moment in. The reason for this being that the originallity of the saw movies apparently ran out after the first movie. So basically they've 6 or 7 of the same movie. Doesn't anybody involved in making these movies turn to somebody and say, "Why don't we do something else?"
To tell you the truth I've stopped each roman numeral to which saw sequel it belongs to. Personally I don't even see the connection between Ancient Rome and people cutting off their own hands anyway. But not only have I lost track of the order of each movie, but also what movie i saw each weird torture device or gross-out moment in. The reason for this being that the originallity of the saw movies apparently ran out after the first movie. So basically they've 6 or 7 of the same movie. Doesn't anybody involved in making these movies turn to somebody and say, "Why don't we do something else?"
