#Saw IV review

[hannahwatcheshorror]

SAW IV (2007)

SAW IV fills in a lot of backstory as to why John became Jigsaw (we give the introduction after they have left the building, as with PEARL), we even meet his ex-wife! This movie certainly pulls from the previous films [I, II, & III] so if you haven’t seen those I am not sure how well this will track (even with all the flashbacks). There are a lot of little loose ends that get tied up but inevitably they create more ends that need tying (thank goodness for more sequels!). 

(Trigger Warning Suicide, Rape)

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If I thought the previous film made me squirmy, the intro scene for SAW IV takes the cake. Watching our good friend John Kramer lifeless on a table and being dug into (when there probably isn’t even a key inside of him!) is sickening. But there was a tape in him! So it all worked out in the end (and I was able to eat my cheese stick after the autopsy scene was over). This movie features bad people getting things coming to them which is what is usually so good about SAW in the first place. Two of the people who were chosen to bleed were a rapist and a child abuser and it was very nice to see them suffer!

I FIGURED OUT WHY HOFFMAN always freaked me out and it took a word from this decade. Mewing. Detective Hoffman is a mewer and that is why he always freaked me out but I didn’t have a word for it until now (the killing didn’t bug me at all, I guess). The actor looks like a normal man but Hoffman is straight up altering his face structure (some Stephen King IF IT BLEEDS type shit). Hoffman might be off hoffing a man, but he's going to look damn good doing it (huh?). Anyway, Hoff is sketchy all movie even when he is tied up and a “victim.”

Our main man is Rigg and he has a problem with wanting to save everyone (except his marriage, am I right, ladies?) so Jigsaw selects him for the player of the game and the pawn this time around is Donnie Wahlberg again! Technically Hoffman is there too but he isn’t so much a pawn, and there is also a lawyer there but he is more of a witness than a pawn. ANYWAY. Rigg is meant to save people by not saving them which is very hard for an action boy to do (total opposite of the main guy from SAW III). He ends up having to fend off one of the girls he saves because she tries to kill him! Sad! Then he finds a creepy rapist and becomes a little mini Jigsaw by making the rapist strap into a device that real Jigsaw made! Wild! Next onto a lady who let her husband die which was honestly so slay of her since he BEAT HER AND THEIR KID. (UGH!) She is the only one who escapes and is relatively happy (free divorce!).

Finally Rigg gets to the last door and is told not to open it, so he promptly rushes in the room… We love a man who cannot follow simple instructions, when he opens the door he ends up getting two of the three people inside killed (whoops!). These events all took place at the same time as SAW III (except the very beginning autopsy, that was really at the end, it is a trip) and during Rigg’s time in the trials a pair of agents are trying desperately to uncover who is helping Jigsaw. We get a ton of backstory from John’s ex-wife and it turns out she ran a free clinic and a violent patient caused her to lose her baby so that is what made John-o go bad. Now things make a little more sense but John is for sure dead so the question is how are things going to continue?

[horrorhussy]

My favourite SAW IV reviews let’s go.

[mayorofloserville69]

She liked saw IV!!!

Not so much V tho :(

[jawz]

i saw the tv glow is legitimately one of the stupidest, most tryhard movies i've ever seen in my entire life. absolute dogshit. and everyone is pretending it's the most lifechanging thing they've ever seen LOL give me a break! the gall to claim this is inspired by fucking DAVID LYNCH??? i can't

[discjude]

guess my favourite sge chapter challenge (impossible edition). yes i think aric shouldve had long hair he was in that cave for nine whole ass years leave me alone

[sonknuxadow]

went to a comic store today and saw individual issues of idw sonic in person for the first time ever btw . epic win

[enchantingruinscandy]

"iT DoESn'T kEeP mY FiNgERtiPS WArM sO i DOn'T gEt WhAt tHe PoInT iS"

fingerless gloves i love you. dont listen to them. theyre so wrong

[puckiety]

you guys are going to be as up in arms about the use of AI in furiosa as you were about the use of AI in late night with the devil, right? you're not going to review bomb an indie movie for generating (and having the art team heavily edit) three images & then completely ignore when a major studio uses AI to alter an actress's appearance to better match the lead's, right?

[softness-and-shattering]

I really like this game. Im over 100 hours in. But. The dreariness. Is so much.

Like ok this whole act is in shadow cursed lands fine. But. The house of healing? And then even in shars temple theres skeletons ok but theres just corpses and bones and random body parts hanging from the ceiling. Im usually excited to explore every nook and cranny but Ivr had enough of this whole area already.

Hsvent done moonrise towers. Done most? of shars gauntlet, got the spear, dealt with ?yurgir and then I was looking up where to find loot because Im not enjoying the ambience (@harrow) and I saw if you do the gauntlet before moonrise you lose the gnomes and tieflings? Idk if its the whole thing or not so after yurgir orthon?? Is orthon the type of devil? - went back to last light. (And hoo boy. My computer isnt quite technically up to spec for thr game. The cutscenes are choppy and it takes forever to save but I make it work. Last light really slows everything down, there are so many npcs and building layers all right there. Cant seem to get nore tief info about zevlor though, no one wants to talk about him?)

So now Halsin wants me to meet him by the lake for a quick trip into the shadowfell? Is dealing with the absolute urgent or what, we're just going on another interplanar jaunt?? I mean as long as theres less corpses tbh. (The warding bond marriage rings?!?! Ugh)) and how old is Halsin anyway?

Also very funny with the whole defeaying the last dark justiciar thing and theres shadowheart completed the trials decked out in her new dark justiciar half-plate. Also why are there still rats after i defeated him? Enemy rats. That was a fun fight though, popped up spirit guardians and just had shadowheart dash around. I kinda feel bad for Lythander, hes kinda cool.

And i had to look up the solution to the library. It asks what silences the nightsong and the answrr is Shar! So I tried to give it the idol of shar from grymforge. No, it wants the book that gives the hint because the hint is the answer because a book about what silences the nightsong is the answer to what silences the nightsong? Thats not logical, the answer is Shar, not a book. But it is a library so maybe I should have guessed.

The self same trial was also cool. You know whats better than having your own fireball used against you? Counterspell.

And when counterspell fails the combat long says you "cast failed counterspell". Oh yes my favourite spell, Failed Counterspell! 😂

And I kinda wish I could recruit Rolan. Poor guy with his thunderwave.

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[camelspit]

how r u gonna dnf a book at page 37 and feel qualified enough to write a review abt it be so fr

[jade-gemstone]

Wolf Game is like so sucks. I remember how I laughed when God helped solve a murder

I heard that's in chapter 3 and haven't really gotten there yet but I've seen a screenshot.

Mans really put the most vile shit in there and was like "Guys guys it's okay the protag believes in the Lord now."

[steelycunt]

days at the morisaki bookshop slides in to take up the mantle of worst book i have read this year

[everylastbird]

'This specific scene in this piece of media made x character seem dumb and immature and thus it was bad and so is the entire series' ooor perhaps it was in fact intended to show that the character in question is emotionally ignorant and immature???

[brothersonahotelbed]

wait y'all, spiral was kinda good though...

[llegato]

holy shit i havent had icun in yeaaarrrssss......