After 2 years, that "puzzle killer" has returned full of blood!
That's right, it's "Chainsaw 10", which will be released at the end of September.
"Chainsaw 10" is directed by Kevin Grout, the director who filmed the sixth and seventh parts of "Chainsaw", "Jesabelle" and "Illusion".
The plot describes the "puzzle killer" John Kramer going to Mexico to receive an experimental cancer treatment, completely unexpectedly that the whole process is a scam, so John once again brings the bloody game he is good at to these fraudsters.
Judging from the evaluation of the Rotten Tomatoes film review website, "Chainsaw 10" is the best in the entire series.
Rotten Tomatoes degree is 91%, you know, the "Chainsaw 1" with great praise is only 87%.
Some people say that you don't need to watch the entire Chainsaw series to enjoy the thrill of Chainsaw 10.
It should only be half right, if you haven't seen other episodes at all, the sense of substitution in many details will be relatively poor.
For example, John's two protégés, Amanda and Detective Hoffman, reappeared.
There are also a few small details about the treatment in this episode, and there are also small passages in several sequels.
However, when you know that "Chainsaw 10" has the longest length in the series (with one exception being the director's cut version of "Chainsaw 3"), you can indirectly know that the plot content is not less, and episode 10 is also the hardest episode trying to break out of all sequel frameworks.
After all, since the 7th part, the entire series has begun to go downhill, without the participation of John Kramer, it is just a rotten parody show for a group of admirers, which is really nothing to watch.
This time is different, John Kramer personally returned, I believe that the reputation will not be too bad.
In addition to the "puzzle killer" John who is behind the scenes most of the time as the protagonist of this episode, while enriching the character's attitude and guidelines in behavior, it can be regarded as the most "emotional" episode.
Some small changes, such as changing the "Someone died before the title" horror film has long been out of the way to know its indiscriminate opening habits.
The first half of the plot is simply that the old man John tries to find a cure from various medical methods, can let him continue his unfinished plan, sees an experimental treatment to rekindle hope, but did not expect that spending a lot of money is a dream, in the process can actually see his conscience side (even if his moral boundaries are a little different from ordinary people), perhaps because this experience makes him more determined to eradicate pests in the future.
As an aside, medical fraud seems to never be separated from conspiracy theories, either coveted by pharmaceutical companies or obstructed by relevant departments. The second half is the organ killing that the audience expects.
And the key words connecting these two paragraphs are also quite interesting, and it has only been since Wen Ziren's "Fatal Induction" in 2021 that the funny phrase "removing tumors" has been noticed, which can be regarded as one of the core concepts of this episode to eliminate fraudsters.
What's more interesting is that even the entire killing process is different from the past, in addition to the still bloody and violent organs, this time even the puzzle killer went to the sea to play in person, becoming a confrontation drama between the two "villains", which is simply worse than who is worse, increasing a lot of dramatic tension at the same time, I believe that the audience is also judging who should "die", which is where the success lies.
It also inherits the timepiece that the series loves to use, and even if there are many unexpected episodes in the process, John, who knows human nature well, has left a hand after all. Especially the villain female doctor Cecilia in this part, is really miserable enough!
"Chainsaw 10" is the best episode of all the sequels overall.
I believe that the producer such as Wen Ziren must have a lot of influence, otherwise it will be a worrying situation based on the director's past works, and the core characters and concepts of the entire series will be more complete and three-dimensional.
It is no longer just a sequel that simply played games in the past and threw out the plot when he was younger, this time it is even obvious that even playing games is not the point.
First of all, for non-fan viewers who have only watched the first three episodes of the "Chainsaw" series, I myself feel that "Chainsaw 10" is up to the standard in terms of pain and coolness.
Even if this episode is not my personal favorite type of game design for cooperative breakthrough and escape room, but takes turns to execute the game, it can more focus on amplifying the painful process of everyone being tortured by the game, and it is also a very careful one compared to the first 9 episodes of "Chainsaw" that I have watched.
This episode is indeed quite straightforward in terms of gore, whether it is various torture scenes or not in the regular game, just John Kramer's imaginary eye-catching punishment of the caretaker who steals things, etc., "Chainsaw 10" gives the audience the closest viewing position.
Even if you only smash your wrist and ankle with a mallet without blood, you can feel the fear that the game participants exude from the screen.
Of course, perhaps compared with other hack-and-slash movies, "Chainsaw 10" can only be regarded as a piece of cake, but watching this episode in the entire series is already considered to be a heavier taste.
"Chainsaw 10" will choose the time point between "Chainsaw" and "Chainsaw 2", which will not have the problem of whether the plot is not connected for the audience who has not watched the subsequent sequels.
Tobin Bell, who returns to play "Puzzle Killer" John Kramer in this episode, not only has a significant increase in scenes, but also appears in a complete posture that is not yet in a wheelchair and feels that he has not yet evolved into an extreme body.
He also assists with Amanda, who survived Chainsaw and became its protégé.
Unlike her in "Chainsaw 2", Amanda in "Chainsaw 10" also seems to have not yet evolved, probably still in the growth stage, still at a loss about whether she can do the task, and has unnecessary sympathy for those sinners who are invited to participate in the game.
Although the design of "Chainsaw 10" does not make the audience exclaim, it is also excellent.
At first, you don't know if John and Amanda's countermeasures were really their carelessness, or did they do it deliberately?
Of course, it is expected that the boy playing football will come to the abandoned factory and be tied up by Cecilia and Parker, but when Cecilia and Parker are locked in the room for money, and John and Amanda rely on the key to unlock the mechanism, you can know that this plan is indeed within John's plan.
The reason why he saved the two of them for the last game was because he knew that the two would never cherish the second chance he gave them, so he used himself to bet with high win rate and low odds that they would fall into the trap he laid down, and in the end, he really won the bet. When watching Cecilia and Parker start attacking each other in order to survive, interspersed with their sweet confession earlier and Amanda's hint to Parker, how ironic is it, after the two have become enemies from lovers, isn't the sea oath alliance promised to each other also a fraud?
Looking at "Chainsaw 10" as a whole, it is indeed sincere, and it is worth it just to see more of the different aspects of John and Amanda.
The game mechanics may not be particularly creative compared to the previous game, but this can also be explained by the fact that the timing of this episode is between "Chainsaw" and "Chainsaw 2", that is, neither John nor Amanda has fully evolved.
However, the actor who plays Amanda Shaunny Smith is visibly getting older and does not have the same face as when she first watched episode 4.
As mentioned earlier, many of the pictures in this episode are very direct, and those bloody shots are not deliberately avoided, which is also a plus. In addition, "Chainsaw 10" has many bridges that will make people laugh, whether it is several people taking turns to execute the game, others shouting loudly next to them, there is a funny feeling that others are eating rice noodles and you are shouting hot on the side.
There are also things like using intestines as ropes, etc., which add a little B-grade fun to the movie, which is a moderate adjustment in the movie.
It's just that when it comes to shortcomings, I myself think that the pace of the film is too slow, whether it is between John and Amanda, or later the confrontation between John's camp and Cecilia's side, there is a lot of dialogue.
Although it is necessary to understand that this is the focus of this episode.
But it's a pity that this indirectly leaves too much time between games and games.
There is no way to continue the tension and fear of the whole movie, but there will be a feeling of breaking, but I still like this episode.
After the first episode of "Chainsaw" was released in 2004, director Wen Ziren became the first place in horror thriller movies, and after becoming popular, he no longer directed this series, most of them were only named producers, and since then, it has been the same as a large number of strange horror movies, as long as it is "Wen Ziren supervised", it has become an Internet meme with the same meaning as "rubbing heat" in the eyes of netizens, everyone knows that only "Wen Ziren director" is valuable, and what other "Wen Ziren producer" and "Wen Ziren returns strongly" Such propaganda words and sentences are just hanging his name, and they will never be comparable to the golden signboard of "Wen Ziren himself directed".
Now that the series is entering its 10th episode, the promotional phrases are still rubbing Wen Ziren according to the convention.
But fortunately, the overall score is stable and will not rot, but the same pattern has been repeated ten times, and it will really get tired of watching for a long time!
In fact, most of the above characters died in the first few episodes, but why can "Chainsaw 10" still bring them back?
Because this episode is a prequel, it took a lot of space to describe the mood of this "soul-grabbing old man" after learning that he was terminally cancerous, he tried his best to prolong his life, met a medical team that claimed to be able to treat terminal cancer, but he did not expect that he went to the treatment with hope, and after spending a large amount of money, he found out that it was a fraud group, this white-purpose fraud group who does not deceive, but to attack a super murderer, is simply looking for his own death.
This episode is to see how this murderer invented more powerful mechanisms to make those bad guys pay a terrible price, and in this era of fraud syndicates, such a plot is actually very pleasant!
In this episode, we can get to know this murderer better, know that he has an engineer background, so he has the ability to manufacture these precision instruments, the whole operation is planned by him, the female apprentice "Amanda" is responsible for catching people to a specific location, and the male apprentice "Hoffman" who only appears in the ending Easter egg is using police resources to find out the whereabouts of these fraud groups in order to catch them and "play games".
And the games in this episode are indeed quite creative, including all kinds of torturous graphics that will have a terrifying audience, please don't try it easily.
Although this "can't finish sawing you" series of movies, the murderous method is more creative than episode by episode, but as a thriller lover, I have already "experienced a hundred battles" in terms of visual senses, and I haven't seen any big scenes...
So from the first episode to the tenth episode, it has become more and more strange, no matter how exaggerated the brutal picture, you will get used to it for a long time, so if you can't give us some new ideas in the story, but will only keep taking strong drugs on the killing method, the old fans are destined to only watch more and more insensitive.
Whether this series can be harvested when it is good, or it can squeeze more residual value, testing the wisdom of film companies.
But in any case, unless you can still invite Wen Ziren back to direct, don't rub his name on the heat!
I think the theme of the "Chainsaw" series has always been to persuade the world, people who do not respect life, people who live well but do not love themselves, and even people who deliberately hurt themselves, puzzle killers choose them, set up games and give rules and escape methods, see how much you are willing to pay for a life, but unfortunately, the vast majority of people died tragically in panic, and the only person who managed to escape was Amanda She got "redemption".
Of course, we also know that she later became a disciple.
Therefore, "Chainsaw 10" is still the best work of horror movies even now, with highly creative murder organs, cautionary stories, such as detective films stripped of the cocoon, of course, the most important thing to forget is that the bigger and bigger game, although it has changed from a survival game to a simple killing mechanism today, but it is undeniable that the series has left a classic status in film history.
At the age of 81, Tobin Bell can still play, it is really a tribute!