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...shuddering naked woman strung up in the meat locker was not the problem. Neither was the guy ripping through chains embedded in his flesh to dismantle a ticking bomb in front of him. What worried the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) when the ratings body screened Saw III, the latest installment in the lucrative, torture-based horror franchise, was the disturbing "tonality," according to the film's director, Darren Lynn Bousman. "This movie is too dark?" asks Bousman, a 27-year-old Elvis Costello look-alike from Kansas. "That's what...
Bought and savvily marketed by Lionsgate, Saw was a huge hit, proving that mainstream audiences have an appetite for sadism--at least if it's cleverly conceived. Another Saw quickly followed. So far the franchise has earned more than $250 million worldwide, and Saw III will open in roughly 3,000 U.S. theaters Oct. 27, the biggest release of the films to date. Saw films skew to the under-25 audience and are as popular with girls as with guys. "Good horror movies don't need stars, and they don't need special effects," says Tom Ortenberg, Lionsgate president...
What the College should do is expand an already-existing essay program, in which freshmen come together to discuss, among other texts, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” within their proctor groups. The initiative was started by Archie C. Epps III, in part to counter the racial tensions on campus that eventually led to randomization. Since then, essays have been added and subtracted, but Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” has always been among them...
...Connecticut judge sentenced map thief E. Forbes Smiley III to five years in prison Friday, ending a saga that began after Yale University librarians found his Exacto knife on the floor of their rare books library—a smoking gun in the 15-month-long case...
...hell, “Saw III.” The stupid trailer assumes that we’ve seen the first two installments of the franchise, spewing out inane narration-drivel about how “YOU’VE SEEN HIS HORROR. YOU’VE SEEN HIM WORK. NOW, SEE HIS LEGEND GROW” and so on. Who the hell is “he?” Is his name Mr. Saw? I have no idea. I have to believe that the deep-throated horror-narrator guy that they have for every such trailer is just...