Saw V (David Hackl, 2008)

[orgasmo]

Jesus-I haven't had a chance to even see saw 4 yet.
Still this poster Ive found does look really cool.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13326
BD Horror News - Pinhead Appears in New 'Saw V' Blood Drive Poster

[rottingdead64]

While I gotta give credit to the franchise for continually having some cool posters, I have refused to see a saw since 3. They just get boring and there are only so many times you can retread the same ground. Its not really that shocking anymore really, most of the R horror out today is much more graphic than any saw film.

[Peter Neal]

...most of the R horror out today is much more graphic than any saw film.

Are you serious?

I'm looking quite forward to this since they made the impossible possible and actually got "Saw IV" working, which was- for me at least- the critical point whether or not I'd still pay interest to the series.
So far, they've managed to continue rather than simply rehash the story and while some find the Jigsaw character not scary enough I consider the notion that his ideas still have the impact to draw blood even though he's bedridden (or later on dead and gone) more stimulating than yet another slasher clone with a powertool...though I love those kind of flicks, too...only on another, more primal, level.
"Saw" is THE contemparay horror franchise and the only true heir to the 80's phenomenon that was the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.

[Vaughan]

They haven't rehashed the story..... but boy did they ever stretch it out?!?! If you take the story as we know it today, it's enough for one film.... but four?!? And sadly, it's the most hideously clichéd plot too......

Having said that, I'm on record saying I love the first film, and enjoyed the fourth. Some decent set pieces - though they tend to blend into each other.....

[jacksmith1983]

I'm not that enamoured with the Saw series, but having said that I'm not adverse to them either. The first film was quite innovative and the sequels are all an inoffensive way to pass the time.

I think the saw series in basically in the same place the Halloween, Nightmae On Elm Street and Friday The 13th franchises were at in the late eighties. It's an established brand now and each installment is more or less a guaranteed and completely critic proof box office draw. History dictates the bubble will probably burst at some point but I reckon there's still a lot of commercial life left in the series yet.