Saturday, October 27, 2007

SAW IV – HORROR OR HORRIBLE?


Saw IV movie has been a hit since 2004. Saw is one of Hollywood’s most successful horror film franchises. It is opening this Friday, October 26, 2007, perfect timing for Halloween. Nationwide there are so many fans that are going to be lining up to see it. Fans will give blood to see this bloody movie. Lionsgate film studio has launched a blood drive just to promote the film and boost blood donations. Last year, they collected around 23,500 pints of blood through local efforts, this year they are joined nationwide with the American Red Cross and Yahoo. The “Saw” movies are among the bloodies on silver screens but it does promote a good cause, so this horror movie is great and it should be a success.


Saw movies could also be horrible because it is not a good influence on children. After seeing Jigsaw, one of the main characters, abduct people and tortures them with a lot of crazy traps that injury them in such a way that all you see is blood. Children today copycat everything they watch. This movie presents too much horror and killing that it is not good psychologically to watch. They should remove these horrible films from the shelves and replace them with something they can relate to or role model.


Even though I do not like any scary movies, I do think “Saw” films are great to see especially around Halloween. There are so many teenagers and kids that look forward to these horror movies that if the film industry did not put a new one out each year, they would be sad. I also think it is a great thing what Lionsgate is doing with linking a blood drive with the bloody movie because maybe in the future it will influence the teenagers today to do good things in the world, and to look at the bright side of things, not the bad side or horrible side.

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