To celebrate Saw‘s ten-year anniversary, the first film will hit theaters again this Halloween season. Let’s go back to the film’s roots with ten facts of the franchise’s origin that you probably didn’t know.
1. This movie was filmed in only 18 days
Which yes, is an incredibly short amount of time to film a horror movie, which typically have plenty of special effects and challenging stunt-double shots. Both of which this film had limited of. (source)
2. The creation of the franchise was influenced by the low-budget approach of ‘The Blair Witch Project’
Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell once stated “For James [co-creator] and I, Saw began back in 1999 when we first watched Blair Witch.” (source)
3. The film was originally going to be filmed through the perspective of a security camera in an elevator.
This version of Saw most definitely would’ve ended up a lot more like 2010’s Devil. (source)
4. The series’ signature blood and guts aren’t akin to the creators’ vision
“I felt people ended up concentrating on certain things that were not necessarily, for us, what the film was about, like the blood and guts of the trap,” said co-creator James Wan. “I keep reminding people that the reason why I think the first film works so well was because it was fresh, it was unique, and it had a really cool twist ending that made people say, ‘My God, did you see that?'” (source)
5. Two other concepts almost won out over ‘two guys in a room, and(…) a dead body on the floor’
“One was an idea for a movie about astral projection,” said Wan. “The second one was an idea about a guy who goes to sleep at night, and wakes up in the morning with scratches on himself. He notices that something weird is happening to him at night, so he sets up video cameras while he sleeps. And this was many years ago, long before another movie came out called Paranormal Activity.” (source)
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