Saw IV (2007)

Saw IV (2007)

Country: USA

Director:  Darren Lynn Bousman

Main Stars:  Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Louise Ferreira, Costas Mandylor, Betty Russell, Lyriq Bent, Athena Karkanis

Storyline:  Continuing where the 3^rd film stops the jigsaw murders keep continuing as he lies with brain cancer.

Review (Spoils):   John Kramer aka Jigsaw is dying with his brain cancer and lying in a bed, but the murders seem to keep going and the FBI are drilling Jill. The traps are set, and the games have started bloody gore and all. We follow the pace of a cop within the puzzle of traps and setups.

More Chains, sewed eyes and mouths, wood hooks, neck, and leg stabs, hanging bodies with exposed rib cages, hair pull that is pretty damn nasty, a eyes gouge which was well deserved, pregnant Jill backstory, a cool steel pin body trap, pin through the head, jigsaw doll bomb, head traps, back neck trap, ice block hanging, gun shots, nasty body of Jigsaw.

Rating:  This is one is a bloody mess but at the same time the storyline is starting to become what’s next.  Sure, the series is a classic and some of puzzle traps are pretty cool but after four films you do have to wonder who have time to build all these traps and machines within the fast timeline and better yet work them. The backstory with Jill and Jigsaw works it explains a lot of the whys so it’s not all repeative and dull much where the series does start to head down.

6/10 Beers!

Yacker

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Country: USA

Director: George A. Romero

Main Stars: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Moore, Joshua Peace, Micelle Morgan, Amy Lalonde, Athena Karkanis, Devon Bostick

Storyline: Continuing the Living Dead story we have a group of people trying to get to a island away from the dead.

Review (Spoils): This film is far off now from the original series, we have undead still roaming around and people not getting alone but they are now killing each other over what holy message the walking dead means. We have a group of army like people, some vigilantes and some cowboy like groups battling it out. We have some Irish accents and a battle between a captain fisherman and a cowboy ranger one the message of God.

This film is not a total mess as we have some decent gore and blood in the film. We have lots of gun shots to the head, zombies, more gun shots, some zombie munching, ripping bodies apart, eating a horse and some of the zombie concept of them doing what they did normal daily life (like the horse rider and the mailman was unique). The zombie children were pretty neat so the overall special effects and makeup was good. Too bad the story sucked so bad.

Rating: I believe this is the sixth of the series and it does not get much better than the first three. But it started to save itself when the gore started towards the end you just have to make it that fair through the shady plot to see the good stuff.

5/10 Beers!

Yacker