'Saw' Enters The Guinness World Records as Most Successful Horror Franchise Ever

[Gigantor]

Originally Posted by the blob

Thought this was worth a mention. $733 box office with one more still to come. Doesn't account for inflation and ticket price rises and Scream might have been there if there were more than three.


Halloween (10 films, 1978-2009) - $367m
A Nightmare On Elm Street (nine films, 1984-2009) - $447m
Friday the 13th (12 films, 1980-2009) - $465m
Scream (three films, 1996-2000) - $507m
Saw (six films, 2004-2009) - $733m

Yeah its not really accurate as a ticket to see a movie these days is like $12and is on 2000 Screens as compared to back in the day when a movie would cost around $5 and was shown at a lot less theatres

[broonage]

Saw is a modern classic. The rest (perhaps excluding the 2nd) are not worth your 90mins.

[nekromantik]

Saw 1 was awesome!

then it went downhill every single year. So glad its the last.

Scream movies made more per movie on average then saw per movie average if you divide the total with the no of movies made.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Splatterdragon73

Astonishingly, i've never even seen the first Saw yet let alone the follow-ups!Please feel free to laugh.

Oh yes....there will be disbelief!

I watched the first one, and if that's the best I'm glad I never watched the rest. Not my kind of thing at all, still it's good to see any genre based film making big bucks at the box office.

[The 4th Fella]

I saw the first Saw because it sounded interesting. I saw the 2nd film for Emmanuelle Vaugier (I also need to the the fourth one). Wasn't interested in seeing the other 4.

Friday The 13th, on the other hand,, i'm a fan of that series. Pt 3, Pt 7, JTGH and the reboot are my favourites.

[Gigantor]

SCREAM and SAW have no business being compared to the likes of FRIDAY THE 13th,A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and especially HALLOWEEN

[Playzocker]

You're right - they're both way more awesome

[Gigantor]

Ugh....F U C K THAT!

[BioZombie]

I never really liked the Saw serise that much. The first one was ok but (as I think someone else has stated) the acting is so terrible that it almost ruins the film. From then on I have watched a few of the sequels but have not seen anything that has really impressed me at all. Some of the traps were quite innovative though.

My favourite horror serise has to be the Evil Dead trilogy. I still hold out a small hope that Raimi and Campbell will get back togther and make a fourth film, however I'm not holding my breath.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gigantor

SCREAM and SAW have no business being compared to the likes of FRIDAY THE 13th,A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and especially HALLOWEEN

While I kind of agree, I find all the the above to be yawn inducing franchises.

Re: Saw - I've seen the first three, and that was enough for me. While the first is a fairly original and fairly enjoyable movie, the two sequels that I have seen, I didn't care for at all.