The guys over at Fearnet.com (where you can find reviews from my good friend Scott Weinberg) have posted up another clip from the forthcoming Saw V. This one’s being called “The Neck-Tie Trap”. Enjoy.
You can tell Saw V’s release date is right around the corner because all of the sudden Lions Gate is drowning us with new Saw info.
First up is a batch new images that you can check out over at Shocktillyoudrop.
If that weren’t enough, they’ve also started airing not one, but two fifteen second teasers. I’m not really down with the whole “what would Jigsaw do?” angle (that may be a gag that’s about run its course), but everything else looks pretty good. I mean, the ads make it look like every other Saw movie out there (Tobin Bell, grimy locations, the creepy doll, the unnatural lighting, etc.) but if you’re really into the whole Saw universe (and let’s face it, someone is because they keep churning these things out) you should come away from these pleased.
Saw V assaults fright fans with more devilish contraptions and convoluted plot twists on October 24th.
Lions Gate’s Saw V promotion train just keeps chugging along, and I’ve got to give them credit, because their latest marketing tool is pretty damn cool. Best of all, it’s free.
If you head on over to Saw5.varitalk.com, you can send a voicemail or email message to anyone-in Tobin Bell’s voice. I spent a few minutes playing around with it earlier this morning and was impressed. I mean, it’s not something you’re gonna use a million times, but sending a message to your wife from Jigsaw is a surefire way to promote wacky hijinks in your household.
Saw V opens nationwide on October 24th.
Lionsgate Films, the distributor for the Saw franchise, has launched an official MySpace site for the upcoming fifth installment of the convoluted yet popular franchise.
Adventurous social networkers who aren’t afraid of winding up in one of Jigsaw’s Rube Goldberg-esque traps can check out the page at MySpace.com/saw5movie and watch the official trailer, find new profile skins (which aren’t active yet) and chat with other Saw fans.
Plot details about the fifth installment have been pretty scarce, but I’ll take a crack at telling you what’s going to happen: Jigsaw and his merry band of pranksters will set up a series of elaborately crafted traps that will cause people to die horribly. Then, 80 or so minutes into the film, there’ll be a gigantic revelation that sets up a twist ending and another sequel. A week after the film opens, Lionsgate will then announce Saw VI for next October. See? It’s like I’m psychic or something. If Lucio Fulci were still alive he could cast me in a sequel to his film The Psychic-only instead of using my supernatural gifts to unravel a murder mystery, I’d use mine to scry the hidden plots of horror film sequels.
