Saw ‘Saw’ last night at the Vue Cinema West End.
Scary stuff.
Two guys wake up chained at opposite ends of an industrial washroom.
Between them is a decomposing corpse.
One has to kill the other or face a terrible death before time runs out. A series of macabre clues lead them to concealed hacksaws – to their horror they realise the only way out is to cut through their ankles…
The story unfolds through a series of carefully managed flashbacks. We discover they’re the victim of a sadistic psycho called ‘The Jigsaw Killer’ who traps his victims and forces them to make gruesome life-or-death choices to escape.
It’s a chilling psycho-horror that turns on the desperate plight of the two characters, played by Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell.
They are trapped.
Trapped by the chains, trapped by the serial killer, and trapped by their mistrust of each other. The sense of claustrophobic, no-way-out horror is cleverly developed and unnerving to watch.
Elwes hams it up a bit, but it’s an intriguingly dark horror film and well worth seeing.
Before seeing the film we shopped on Oxford Street in the driving rain. Huddled under a windswept brolly fighting off the worst the British weather could hurl at us. Darting in and out of shops trying not to get utterly soaked.
After a warm up at Costa coffee and a browse through the department stores we hit the cinema.
We rounded off the evening with a lovely meal at the Thai Pot, Covent Garden and a late train ride home with all the pissed up party goers.
Two lads opposite were hilarious – faking sleep, somewhat obviously, whenever the ticket collector came by… !
Went over to my sister and bro-in-law’s place for an excellent Halloween fireworks party last night.
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John Peel died today. I was genuinely saddened when I heard the news.
So yeah... 