Frailty/Saw (2006)

Director: James Wan  Bill Paxton  Starring: Danny Glover  Cary Elwes  Monica Potter  
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Publisher: Lions Gate
Format: DVD
UPC: 00031398210221
Buy.com Sku: 203529349
Item#: V2G5YV
Category Keywords: Gore  Horror 
Rating: UR
 
2 Great Movies!
 
 
Features: DVD, 2 Pack, Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish
 
On the edge of your seat with fingernails firmly dug into the chair arms is the only way to watch this exclusive Double Feature DVD! Filled with tense energy, unexplainable assassinations, and frights galore, this collection includes the films Frailty and Saw!

Frailty: Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer's identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family's sinister secrets.

Saw: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back or die trying...
 
"[Saw] ...amazingly evocative..."  Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
"[Saw] ...an ingenious machine for inducing terror..."  David Edelstein, Slate Magazine
"[Frailty] Well-crafted..."  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"[Frailty] Somber and violent but undeniably stylish and unsettling..."  William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 


Editor's Note

FRAILTY: Actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut has been hailed for its originality by author Stephen King and director Sam Raimi (THE EVIL DEAD). The film opens on a stormy night when an intense man (Matthew McConaughey) walks into FBI headquarters in Dallas and tells Agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) that he knows who the "God's Hand" serial killer is. He tells a compelling tale, shown in flashback, of how he and his brother lived with their kind widower father (Bill Paxton), a mechanic. One night, their father woke them to tell them he'd had a vision, and that God had commanded the family to slay demons in human form. The older brother, Fenton (Matt O'Leary), doesn't believe a word of it, and assumes that their father has gone mad. The younger brother, Adam (Jeremy Sumpter), is more easily swayed. Soon the father is bringing people home, supposedly chosen by God for them to slay. When Fenton tries to resist his father's plan, he finds his own life in danger. Eschewing graphic gore in favor of more subtle chills, Paxton's suspenseful and creepy film harkens back to the wholesome surface and underlying depravity of classics like NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.

SAW: Be prepared to be scared. James Wan's directorial debut, written by and starring Leigh Whannell, is a violent, bloody, psychologically exhausting and exhilarating exercise in terror. Adam (Whannell) and Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) are chained in a vile, disgusting bathroom, separated by a bloody corpse holding a gun and a tape recorder. They are each given a saw--the only obvious way out is to cut one of their feet off. A serial killer who specializes in torturing morally bereft strangers is playing a game with them: Gordon has less than eight hours to kill Adam or else the doctor's wife (Monica Potter) and daughter (Mackenzie Vega) will be murdered. As the two men engage in a battle of wits, alternately trying to help each other and secretly attempting to win the game, a series of flashbacks reveals the history of the madman and the pair of detectives (Danny Glover and Ken Leung) handling the case. Some of the torture scenes are excruciatingly horrible and hard to watch, a real treat for fans of the genre. Inspired by the work of David Lynch (BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS) and Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, INFERNO), Wan has created a scintillating suspense thriller that will have audiences continually shocked, repelled, frightened, and surprised, right up to the very last second (which Whannell has said was influenced by the endings of such films as THE USUAL SUSPECTS and THE SIXTH SENSE). The accompanying heavy metal soundtrack is appropriately scary as well.

 

Features
[Both] Interactive Menus
[Both] Scene Selection
[Both] Subtitles: English, Spanish
[Frailty] Audio Commentary By Director Bill Paxton
[Frailty] Audio Commentary By The Writers
[Frailty] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
[Frailty] Deleted Scenes
[Frailty] Featurettes: Anatomy Of A Scene & The Making Of Frailty
[Frailty] Original Theatrical Trailer
[Frailty] Production Audio Commentary (Arnold Glassman, David Kirschner & Brian Tyler)
[Frailty] Still Photo Presentation By James Hamilton
[Saw] 2 Music Videos Including An Exclusive Unrated Version
[Saw] Audio Commentary With Director James Wan & Writer/Actor Leigh Whannell
[Saw] Audio: English DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
[Saw] Featurette: Making Of The Music Video (Exclusive Unrated Version) & Sawed Off
[Saw] Promotional Art Gallery
[Saw] Trailers & TV Spots
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 2/13/2007
Running Time: 199 minutes
Original Release Date: 2006
Catalog ID: 21022
UPC: 00031398210221
Number of Discs: 2

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
Anamorphic Widescreen  1.85:1

 
Cast & Crew
Bill Paxton
Cary Elwes
Danny Glover
Derk Cheetwood
Ken Leung
Leigh Whannell
Matthew McConaughey
Missy Crider
Bill Paxton - [Frailty] Director
James Wan - [Saw] Director

 
Awards

Nominee (2005)
   MTV Award, Cary Elwes, [Saw] Best Frightened Performance

 
Professional Reviews
ReelViews 6 of 10
[Saw] Saw is for hard-gore horror aficionados only. To appreciate Saw in its full gory, you have to have a penchant for productions that bask in the traditions of the Grand Guignol. While most of the film relies more on psychological tension and terror, there's plenty of gut-churning, visceral violence, especially during the final 15 minutes. That's the time period when James Wan's otherwise compelling feature goes a little too far over the top, veering out of its David Fincher-inspired darkness into the realm of self-parody. - James Berardinelli
 
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
[Frailty] It follows its logic right down into hell. We love movies that play and toy with the supernatural, but are we prepared for one that is an unblinking look at where the logic of the true believer can lead? There was just a glimpse of this mentality on the day after 9/11, when certain TV preachers described it as God's punishment for our sins, before backpedaling when they found such frankness eroded their popularity base...On the basis of this film, Paxton is a gifted director; he and his collaborators, writer Brent Hanley, cinematographer Bill Butler and editor Arnold Glassman, have made a complex film that grips us with the intensity of a simple one. We're with it every step of the way, and discover we hardly suspect where it is going. - Roger Ebert
 
 
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