Saw II

Saw II

I didn’t want to see this movie.  My girlfriend and a couple of friends of ours did.  Just know that right from the beginning.

Right from the get go it started out just like the previous Saw: very gross.  It even did a good job of maintaining the continuity of the storyline between the first and the second movie.  I didn’t like that one either, but my girlfriend did.

I was fine for the most part.  The opening trap was disgusting, but I didn’t watch it – my girlfriend hid behind her bag of popcorn and I watched my shoes.  The traps, though nasty, weren’t quite as scary as in the first one though.  I have a problem with needles though … (odd for someone with now 6 body piercings, I know)… and the trap filled with hypodermic needles really bothered me.

I don’t think I’ll be having any recurring bad dreams about this one or anything but even so, it was pretty gross.

I keep talking to people about how people 10 and 20 years ago would react to this movie.  I’m pretty sure that they’d die.  What it takes to shock and scare people now is a lot worse than it was when Freddy and Jason were prevalent.  Hell, that baseball bat with the nails in the end could’ve been an entire horror movie unto itself.

On the corn cob scale, 1 being bad, not enough corn in your diet, and 5 being good – the serial killer has opened you up and instead of blood you bleed corn, this is definitely a 3.  It’s not a great flick, but it’ll certainly scare the corn out of your cornhole.