When it comes to "Chainsaw Horror", I believe many people are familiar with it! In 2004, "Chainsaw Horror" created by Wen Ziren and his friend Ray Werner was a huge success as soon as it was released, and the film was followed by a series of sequels, which eventually made lionsgate pictures a lot of money, and Wen Ziren and Ray Werner became famous.
According to the original setting, the "Chainsaw Horror" series should finally end in 2010's Chainsaw Horror 7. The first seven parts have told a complete story, and the seventh part of the "vertical saw" disciples have also cleared the portal, the story corresponds to the beginning and end of the first part, this ending can be said to be very perfect, although it leaves some suspense but also gives people a feeling of exhaustion.
Lionsgate originally stopped shooting a sequel, but fans waited for it, and finally the film lost to capital, shooting a soft reboot "Chainsaw Horror 8: Vertical Saw" in 2017. Although the film is not as good as the previous work, the final reversal is also a copy of the second part, but the whole film finally retains the original style, especially the appearance of "vertical saw" John, which is also full of feelings... "Chainsaw Horror 8" is a poor sequel, and the results after the release of the film did not satisfy the filmmakers, so Lionsgate Pictures originally wanted to put down this brand.
Lionsgate eventually decided to shoot a sequel also because it saw the big sale of the new version of "Moonlight Panic". The success of "Moonlight Panic" gave Lionsgate Confidence, and Lionsgate increased its investment to continue filming Chainsaw Horror 9. In fact, there is also news that "Chainsaw Horror 9" is the series of iron fans "Chris Locke" in order to get addicted to promote, the male protagonist in the film is played by Chris Locke.
When Lionsgate released the news of the filming of Chainsaw Horror 9, many fans were not very much looking forward to it, mainly because the film was directed by Darren Lynn Bosman, who had directed the second, third and fourth parts of the "Chainsaw Horror" series. The return of the old team makes people look forward to it, and Lionsgate Pictures has also increased its investment in the film, which shows its emphasis on the film and may want to rely on the film to make a comeback.
In fact, "Chainsaw Horror 9" will also be the last work of Lionsgate To fully control the "Chainsaw" series of films, if the contract is not extended thereafter, the production rights of the series of films will be transferred to Twisted Pictures, which has the right to restart and shoot the series of films alone; perhaps lionsgate is so attached to "Chainsaw Horror 9".
However, the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment, "Chainsaw Horror 9" sees the ambition of the filmmakers, but it gives people a feeling of more than enough and insufficient strength!
The story of Chainsaw Horror 9 does not continue Chainsaw Horror 7 or Chainsaw Horror 8, but is a separate story.
The story takes place years after the death of "Saw" John Kramer.
One day, a sheriff named Pauswick goes after a thief, only to be attacked by a pig-headed man and trapped in the subway, ushering in his "subway tongue pulling" game.
Pauls wakes up to find himself trapped in the middle of the subway track, his tongue caught in a device that will come in 3 minutes and he must pull out his tongue to escape. It turned out that Pauls was so clever in his daily life that he would imprison people by lying and making perjury, so he had to pull out his tongue to atone for his sins. Of course, Pauls did not escape in the end, and was hit by the train into a pulp.
As soon as the camera turns, the male protagonist Zeke appears, Zeke's father is a retired police officer, and his female boss, Captain Anji, is his father's former right-hand man, so he is very concerned about Zeke. Zeke is a man of integrity, and his current partner, William, is a rookie detective who has just been transferred.
The police received a report that Pauls had been killed in the subway, and Zeke took William to see the flesh and blood body that could not be identified, and thought it was an unknown beggar. After receiving a postal package, there is a USB stick inside, and after playing, a "spiral" icon appears on the screen, and everyone recognizes that the background is the court. Zeke then went to the location described in the USB flash drive, found the spiral icon and a box, opened the box and saw the police badge and tongue, only to learn that it was Sheriff Pauls who was killed in the subway.
Zeke and Pauls have a good relationship on weekdays, and when he sees his friend die tragically, he is so angry that he has to solve the case himself. After some analysis, everyone believes that the murderer is an imitator of the "vertical saw" of that year, because the "vertical saw" has been dead for many years and it is impossible to commit the crime.
Zeke's father, the old director, heard about the case and prepared to re-emerge from the jianghu, and also wanted to catch this "strong saw imitator". In fact, when you see this, you should guess that there must be something wrong with this old director.
A sheriff named Feige checks the surveillance before Pauls' death and discovers that he is chasing a thief named Bennie White, who usually has nothing to do and is mixed with drug addicts. Feige went to look for Bennie White and was attacked. When he woke up, he was placed in the game of "pulling his fingers out of the bath".
Fitch is trapped in the bath, next to a high-voltage cable, his ten fingers are each wrapped in a glove-like mechanical device, the game begins, the bath has water injected, and when the height of the water floods to the cable he will be electrocuted. Fei Qi's way to save himself is to pull out his fingers hard... Of course, in the end he was electrocuted.
Why would Feige be caught playing a game, it turned out that he had killed an innocent person who had insulted him while on a mission. After Feige's death, Zeke and William went to look for Bennie White, but were never able to find them.
Next, Zeke receives another mail box, which opens with a piece of meat, and Zeke realizes that the tattoo on the skin is William's, which means that this time William was killed. Heartbroken, Zeke is instructed to find the place where William was killed, only to realize that this is just a ploy to get away from the mountain, and that the real target of the murderer is his female boss, Angie.
Sure enough, at this time, Angie in the police station has been attacked by pig-headed people, trapped in the basement and tortured by love "hot wax mask".
Angie was tied to an iron bed, her face covered by a wet wipe, and directly above it was a pipe that could flow out scalding wax oil. The game begins, the wax oil flows out, and under Angie's neck is a blade that she must cut off her cervical spine with the blade to stop the wax oil device.
It turned out that Angie had been covering up the corruption of the police station and was tortured. In the end, there was no doubt that Angie was dead.
The police looked at the police video and found that the section where Angie was arrested had been deleted, and the registration record left was Zeke's old partner Peter, of course, Zeke's father would also have permission to log in, so some people suspected that the murderer was the old chief.
Zeke goes to see Peter, who killed a witness and was reported by Zeke, so he left the police station and is now living in a depressed state. Zeke is attacked by the Pig-Headed Man while looking for Peter, and wakes up to find him trapped in a secret chamber in which a man is hanging. Zeke's hand was handcuffed and there was a saw next to him, and he had to use the saw to cut off his hand to escape.
Just as Zeke was about to pay tribute to the Saw sawman in Chainsaw Horror 1, he found a hairpin. Zeke used a hairpin to open the handcuffs and was able to escape. Coming to the side of the man hanging in the chamber of secrets, uncovering the black cloth on his head, it turned out to be Peter, who was about to be tortured into "glass bottle slag".
He was hanging in the chamber of secrets, next to a conveyor belt, the mechanism opened, and glass bottle slag flew from the conveyor belt. Zeke must find the key to unlock Peter's body within a certain amount of time to rescue him.
Peter was tortured because he had killed an innocent witness (the witness saw a police officer pushing the prisoner downstairs), Zeke tried his best to save him, and in the end it was too late, peter was tortured to death by bottle slag.
Zeke leaves the place, opens the door and enters another room, only to see William, who turns out to be the "vertical saw imitator" and the son of the witness Peter killed that year (seeing the police throw the prisoner downstairs).
William once witnessed the tragic death of his father, and he wanted revenge, and then he was admitted to the police and entered the police station where Zeke's father was located. William knew that Zeke was an upright cop and wanted to pull him along to punish the evil cops in the police station. Zeke was naturally reluctant, but he had no choice, and it turned out that his father was now suffering from the punishment of "bloody death".
Zeke's father was suspended in the air, bleeding with hose in his body until he died of blood.
William gives Zeke a gun with only one bullet, and he either joins in and knocks out the switch on the wall behind his father to save him, or kills William, and his father will die too.
Zeke cleverly hits the switch with a gun, and his father is put down, but he refuses to join and decides to fight William.
When Zeke and William were fighting, the police arrived, demolished the wall, but also opened another switch, the old chief was hoisted again, and a machine gun appeared in the arm device, which seemed to shoot at the police, and the police opened fire and killed the old chief, while William fled...
"Chainsaw Horror 9" is a reboot, in this reboot almost completely got rid of the old "vertical saw" line, John only appeared in the photo, according to the plot setting, "spiral" replaced the original icon of "solid saw", which means the development and growth of the "vertical saw spirit", which shows the ambition of the film: the film side wants to open a new "chainsaw" universe.
However, this practice of the film side will obviously not satisfy the old "chainsaw" fans. The soft restart of "Chainsaw Horror 8" still has a touch of feelings, although the plot is old-fashioned, but the audience can always accept it, and "Chainsaw Horror 9" has even abandoned a trace of feelings, although it has been criticized by fans.
It is also the ambition of the filmmakers that makes "Chainsaw Horror 9" more like a cottage movie than the original, and the film replaces the original "Billy Doll on a Bicycle" with a pig's head doll, without the original sense of weird humor, which can be called a clumsy imitation.
In the original "Chainsaw Horror", it has always been a two-line parallel of detective and game, making the whole film tense and relaxed, not cold, and "Chainsaw Horror 9" breaks the original style, the film is based on detectives, the original multiplayer game becomes a single-player game not only not exciting, but also reduced to a cutscene, this "Seven Deadly Sins" style is really difficult to accept "Chainsaw powder".
In addition, there are many slots in the plot, there is almost no DNA identification and fingerprint identification in the film, and the final reversal is not too much of a surprise. The final reversal of the film compared to "Chainsaw Horror 5" is really not worth mentioning, in the original "Chainsaw" series, no living person can know his identity after the villain escapes, and although William escaped in "Chainsaw Horror 9", his identity has also been exposed, how can he see his cleverness, and how can he make "Chainsaw Powder" satisfied?
Of course, since "Chainsaw Horror 9" is a "parody", there will also be some shadows of the original, such as the icon "spiral" is the "spiral pattern" on the face of the original Billy doll, and for example, the background music at the time of the final decryption is still the passionate "Hello Zepp".
In short, "Chainsaw Horror 9" has the ambition to create a new "Chainsaw Universe", but it is obviously insufficient, neither attracting new audiences nor making the original fans happy, which is a failed attempt. Despite this, the previous official news exposed that the sequel has begun to prepare in April, and the subsequent sequel does not rule out the emergence of the "Chainsaw Disciple", which shows that the official still has not given up the series, and perhaps the follow-up will still bring surprises to the audience, let's wait and see!