Supposed First Five Minutes of 'Saw IV' Leaked Online
Filed under: Horror, New Releases, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels
For the record, I'm not a huge fan of the recent crop of "horror" films such as House of a Thousand Corpses, Hostel or Captivity. I prefer my horror with more brains and a little less seemingly senseless over-the-top gore. As Alfred Hitchcock once said: "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." I tend to agree with him. After all, he did make a few pretty good films. That said, I did actually like the first Saw film and found it to be the most clever and intelligent of the franchise so far. Of course, my opinion didn't stop the Saw franchise from becoming hugely successful, and it shouldn't have. Many people obviously love this kind of film and that's great for them to feel that way. To each his (or her) own. Naturally, as the films were so successful, we were treated to a Saw II, III and the soon-to-be-released Saw IV. Which brings us to today and the fact that, via IESB, you are now able to watch the supposed first five minutes of the new Saw IV right now online.
After watching the footage, however, I don't know for sure if it is, in fact, the first five minutes of the film. What I can tell you for sure is that this is the same footage shown during the Comic-Con presentation given by Lionsgate. At the time, it wasn't identified as the first minutes of the film, but it's definitely the same footage. Given the quality of the video, I would bet that it was probably recorded during the Comic-Con panel even though that is a strict no-no and it was repeatedly announced that anyone caught video taping during the panels would be ejected. I guess maybe someone was able to make a recording after all. Then again, judging by the amount of time it's been up on IESB, perhaps it was "leaked" on purpose.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-11-2007 @ 9:38AM
raymie said...
House of 1,000 Corpses was a great movie, how could you put it on a list with a crappy movie like Hostel?
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8-11-2007 @ 11:35AM
AJ MacReady said...
Just a thought:
I'd say the footage has got about a 99% chance to be Saw IV. Especially since, while watching it, one of the people in it is actor Justin Louis, who is credited on IMDB as being in the film.
So, it's pretty easy to tell whether or not it is, in fact, more than "supposed" footage. Just do a couple minutes of homework.
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8-11-2007 @ 4:20PM
Peter said...
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I think it was pretty obvious that the choice of the word "supposed" was because no one has confirmed that this is the opening five minutes of the film. I think that became pretty obvious when Chris Ullrich just wrote that.
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8-11-2007 @ 8:51PM
Jonathan said...
Almost the same footage that they showed at ComicCon just longer. Nice to see a better version online.
Keep SAW dark boys. Don't dig the bright setting, but I'll leave judgment until I see the film.
[----RANT TO THE SAW IV CREW FROM A FAN----]
NC - 17 version release it at the same time as an R cut. Call em different films if you have to, put them in small indy theaters, just get an NC-17 version out there. Don't wait for the DVD cuse you guys always piss me off while listening to the Commentary you talk about it being an unrated version and then you say well we had to cut all the close ups on this scene and this got left out cuse the MPAA and we cut this...
[---end rant--]
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