The scariest movie I have seen to date -- in fact, it's the last horror film I'll ever watch -- was "Saw II."
Oh...my...gosh.
I had seen the original "Saw," and it was shocking enough. But my friends and coworkers said "Saw II" went way beyond the original, and they were right. Similar to the movie "Seven" (an AWESOME clever suspense thriller), the movie is about a man who wants to play "games" with people (still hearing the line, "I want to play a game..." gives me chills and forces me to look behind me) who he deems ungrateful for the life they enjoy based on the way they lead their lives. As a terminal cancer patient, he feels he got the short end of the stick, and he wants others to face judgement for their own vices. While he never kills them himself (he's never even in the room), he puts them in traps where they have to make a choice: live or die. Directions to the game are usually delivered via a cassette tape or TV screen using an evil-looking clown puppet. To live, most of the time, they either have to kill someone else before time runs out (sometimes 60 seconds, sometimes 6 hours) or they're going to have to do something to themselves that will, in the very least, maim them for life. If they refuse to move on the choice, it's a sure horrid death they face from whatever trap he's set.
"Saw III" came out last year, and "Saw IV" comes out in theatres in another week or so. As I flipped on the lights in my home office, my palms got sweaty in going to this link just to paste it in case you're interested:
Saw IV If someone ever wanted to play a cruel joke on me and get a replica of that clown puppet and set it up in my house when I walked in the door, I'd jump off the effing balcony -- not kidding.
Don't watch it alone!
