Fiendishly inventive and gory as hell, Saw is one of the most alarming films you will ever see. There are times in this movie when you’ll want to laugh, scream and cry all at once. It’s a mental and emotional rollercoaster ride full of blood and surprises, a bonafide horror classic ideal for anyone with the guts to endure it.

Two men wake up chained to pipes at opposite ends of a dirty bathroom. A dead body lies between them. But who are they? Where are they? And what are they doing there? We’re not going to tell you. It would ruin all the fun.

What we will say though is that it’s nasty, much gorier than Seven or Silence of the Lambs, and stressful, a nerve jangling experience you won’t soon recover from. And it’s twisted. Staggeringly, fiendishly twisted. Cary Elwes and Danny Glover lead a game cast but it’s the movie that’s the star, an incredible achievement by first-time director James Wan that will mess with your mind and get your heartbeat racing like Steve McQueen.

A world of madness, pain and impossible life or death decisions awaits you. We dare you to see it.

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