Can you believe it's been 10 years since the first "Saw" hit theaters?! To celebrate the milestone anniversary of one of the highest grossing horror flicks of all-time, we wanted to take a look back at what really went down on the set of the gory movie. To start, all of the creepy bathroom scenes were filmed in the same order they're shown in the movie. This was done to help the actors feel what the characters were experiencing. Yikes! When Amanda (Shawnee Smith) is searching through her cellmates "guts" after stabbing him, she's actually touching a pig's uterus! The only dummy used in the movie was the burnt body of Mark Wilson (Paul Gutrecht), who met his end while trying to save himself from a slow-acting poison in his body. All the other "corpses" were played by cast members. Director/writer James Wan also revealed in the commentary section of...
- 10/30/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
With Halloween right around the corner, we're counting down the days by posting five fun facts about our favorite fright flicks.Today's featured film is "Saw."1. Leigh Whannell not only wrote the first film, but starred as Adam (above right), the photographer locked in a bathroom with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes, above left). Whannell went on to produce the following six films.2. To escape from the reverse bear trap, Amanda (Shawnee Smith) has to stab and dig through the stomach of her cellmate to find the key. His "guts" are actually a pig's uterus. 3. When Adam begins to smash Zep (Michael Emerson) with the toilet lid, he is actually hitting a garbage bag full of fake blood. 4. The only dummy used in the movie was the burnt corpse of Mark Wilson (Paul Gutrecht), who died while trying to save himself from a slow-acting poison in his body. All the...
- 10/23/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
With Halloween right around the corner, we're counting down the days by posting five fun facts about our favorite fright flicks.Today's featured film is "Saw."1. Leigh Whannell not only wrote the first film, but starred as Adam (above right), the photographer locked in a bathroom with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes, above left). Whannell went on to produce the following six films.2. To escape from the reverse bear trap, Amanda (Shawnee Smith) has to stab and dig through the stomach of her cellmate to find the key. His "guts" are actually a pig's uterus. 3. When Adam begins to smash Zep (Michael Emerson) with the toilet lid, he is actually hitting a garbage bag full of fake blood. 4. The only dummy used in the movie was the burnt corpse of Mark Wilson (Paul Gutrecht), who died while trying to save himself from a slow-acting poison in his body. All the...
- 10/24/2012
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Director Ben Coccio's Zero Day took the Grand Jury prize for best narrative feature, worth $100,000 in goods and services, at the Orlando-based Florida Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The audience award for best narrative feature went to Never Get Outta the Boat, directed by Paul Quinn. The Grand Jury prize for best documentary was presented to Paul Devlin's Power Trip, while Elaine Epstein's State of Deniel took home the audience award for best documentary. Among narrative shorts, Paul Gutrecht's The Vest won both the Grand Jury award and the Audience Award. Vance Malone's Ocularist earned the Grand Jury award for best documentary short, while Alex Budovsky's Bathtime in Clerkenwell won the Grand Jury award for animated short. Special jury awards were also presented to Greg Pak's Robot Stories, Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, PES's Roofsex, and Shane Sauer's Voyage of the Kitty Kuku. The narrative features jury was comprised of Raymond De Felitta, Dave Karger, and Diana Williams. The documentary competition jurors were Alan Berliner, Mary Litkovich, and Kelly M. DeVine. The shorts jury was comprised of Michael Ellenbogen, Laura Levine, and Stephen Schaefer. The student works jurors were Tracy Frenkel, Leslie Halpern, and Katrinka VanDeventer.
- 3/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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