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‘Saw’ and ‘Saw II’ Double Feature Coming to Theaters from Alamo Drafthouse & Fantastic Fest
While you wait for Saw X to bring the franchise back to theaters, Alamo Drafthouse & Fantastic Fest want to play a game. Tickets are now on sale for a special “Fantastic Fest Presents” double feature event of the original Saw and its first sequel Saw II!
This is the perfect double feature to get you ready for Saw X on September 29, as the brand new movie has been confirmed to take place BETWEEN the events of Saw and Saw II.
Check theater listings for dates/showtimes, which include…
- Arlington, VA (Alamo Drafthouse Crystal City) – Sept 20
- Ashburn, VA (Alamo Drafthouse Loudoun) – Sept 20
- Austin, TX (Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar) – Sept 16
- Charlottesville , VA (Alamo Drafthouse Charlottesville) – Sept 20
- Chicago, IL (Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville) – Sept 16
- Corpus Christi, TX (Alamo Drafthouse Corpus Christi) – TBC Date
- El Paso, TX (Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso) – Sept 19
- Katy, TX (Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra) – Sept 16
- Laredo, TX (Alamo Drafthouse Laredo) – TBC Date
- Los Angeles, CA (Alamo Drafthouse DTLA) – Sept 16
- New York, NY (Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan & Brooklyn) – Sept 16
- Raleigh, NC (Alamo Drafthouse Raleigh) – Sept 16
- San Antonio, TX (Alamo Drafthouse Park North) – Sept 16
- Springfield, MO (Alamo Drafthouse Springfield) – Sept 16
- St. Louis, MO (Alamo Drafthouse City Foundry) – Sept 15
- Washington, DC (Alamo Drafthouse DC Bryant Street) – Sept 20
- Westminster, CO (Alamo Drafthouse Westminster) – TBC Date
- Winchester, VA (Alamo Drafthouse Winchester) – Sept 16
- Woodbridge, VA (Alamo Drafthouse Woodbridge) – Sept 20
SAW
2004 / 103 minutes
Forget everything you know about “torture porn” and accept SAW for what it is: a taut horror-thriller that has more in common with Hitchcock than Slipknot. Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (co-writer Leigh Whannell) are two strangers who awaken in a dungeon-like room with no memory of how they arrived. Soon enough, they discover that they’re trapped in a game led by a serial killer named Jigsaw. The debut feature from James Wan (THE CONJURING), SAW is an intense exercise in design that toes the line between gross-out violence and delicious camp – much like a Playstation 2 survival horror game. If that’s not enough, this movie also stars the incomparable Danny Glover.
SAW II
2005 / 93 minutes
Shortly after the events of SAW, the legendary Jigsaw is back and bigger than ever before, and this time he’s created his own house of horrors. In a race against the clock, a group of ex-convicts are forced through a series of deadly traps to retrieve an antidote for a nerve gas that will kill them in two hours. SAW II is the birth of torture porn we know today – nasty, twisted, and bloody. Featuring iconic traps such as the Needle Pit and the Razor Box, SAW II is a grisly piece of work that reset the tone of the legendary series we know today.
NEON has been absolutely slaying the marketing game for their horror output this year, and they’re kicking the Longlegs campaign into high gear with one more month until release.
A cryptic ad in The Seattle Times today (seen below) has led clever horror fans to discover TheBirthdayMurders.net, the brand new official viral marketing website for Longlegs.
The in-universe website details the victims of the serial killer known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), described as a “Satan-worshipping psycho” who has terrorized families throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly three decades.
The website details, “A bloody trail of bodies here in the great state of Oregon attests to the depraved savagery of this one-of-a-kind serial killer. With over three dozen victims that we know of, LONGLEGS is one of the most prolific mass murderers ever to have graced the region, and his gruesome endeavors are the stuff of nightmares. At first, all of the killings appeared to be straightforward murder-suicides: the handiwork of average men who suddenly snapped and slaughtered their wives and children. But a series of eerie coded messages left at the crime scenes indicate that someone – or something – is influencing these horrific crimes. The cryptic letters are signed by someone calling himself LONGLEGS.”
“With thirty-eight kills to his name, LONGLEGS has torn apart the lives of eleven different families throughout the Beaver State. His victims were good people: honest fathers, decent mothers, innocent little children.”
The website is loaded with secrets, clues, and gruesome (faux) crime scene photos, and you might even find a mention of yours truly nestled in there. Poke around. Stay a while.
Longlegs arrives in theaters July 12.
The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”
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