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Make Your Choice: Will You See ‘Saw’ In Theaters? (Trailer)
If it’s Halloween it must be Saw.
We announced last month that Saw would be getting a limited theatrical re-release for this coming Halloween. Now, just hours after releasing a blood-red one-sheet to commemorate the film’s 10th anniversary, we also have the re-release trailer! Make your choice: will you be seeing Saw in theaters again?
The film will open on Friday, October 31st, with select screenings beginning Thursday night, October 30th. The seven Saw films grossed $874 million at the box office worldwide and were hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Most Successful Horror Franchise” of all time.
Saw was the first collaboration for co-creators James Wan, who directed the film, and Leigh Whannell, who wrote the screenplay. Together, they also created the successful Insidious franchise, and Wan has gone on to direct such high-profile films as The Conjuring.
Directed by Wan from a script penned by Whannell, Saw is a psychological thriller focusing on two men who wake up in a secure lair of a serial killer, with a dead body lying between them. The killer, nicknamed “Jigsaw,” leaves them tape recorded messages with details of how to make it out alive. The only way for one man to make it out alive is to do the unthinkable. The two men desperately try to find a way out, while also trying to figure out who’s behind their kidnapping.
The film, which was released over Halloween weekend on October 29, 2004, was produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, and Mark Burg.
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‘Season’s Greetings’ – The Original ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ Short Film Gets 4K Restoration and Fantasia Screening
Before Michael Dougherty made the Halloween classic Trick ‘r Treat, he first introduced the world to the lovable Sam in the 1996 animated short film, Season’s Greetings. The short served as the basis for the anthology feature film, and Season’s Greetings has now been given a brand spankin’ new 4K restoration as we approach another Halloween season.
Michael Dougherty has announced that the brand new 4K remaster of his short Season’s Greetings will be screening at the Fantasia International Film Festival this Summer!
Dougherty writes on Instagram, “Thirty years after he first crept from the shadows one fateful Halloween night, Sam is headed to Montreal. I’m excited to announce that Season’s Greetings, the hand-drawn animated short that first introduced Sam, has been officially selected to screen at the Fantasia International Film Festival in a brand-new 4K restoration with remastered 5.1 audio. The film will screen July 23 at 9:30 PM and July 26 at 10:30 AM, before Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters of Steve Johnson.”
Can’t make it to Fantasia this year? We’ve got good news! Dougherty teases…
“I couldn’t ask for a better place to kick off what’s shaping up to be a very busy spooky season. Because this is just the first stop. More screenings, events, and a few more tricks are on the way…”
You can grab tickets to the Season’s Greetings Fantasia screening right now.
“Twelve years before Trick ‘r Treat had horror fans across the world loving the burlap-donning Sam, the character first appeared in this wonderful animated short from director Michael Dougherty,” Fantasia previews. “As Season’s Greetings is turning 30 this year, we’re celebrating with a special screening of the original short in a stunning new 4K restoration.”
This year’s 30th anniversary Fantasia Film Festival runs from July 16 – August 2.
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