Darren Lynn Bousman

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  • Mother's Day

    Movie Review | Ali | 11th June 2011

    The home invasion genre has been pretty vacant since The Strangers moved in a few years ago, but that hasn't stopped men like Darren Lynn Bousman from trying to muscle his way into the neighbourhood. Bousman, who directed Saws II, III and IV – plus the rarely mentioned, Paris Hilton-starring horror musical Repo! The Genetic Opera (exclamation mark the director's own) – has managed to find a horror property from the 80s that no one really gave a shit about to remake. A formula for success!

  • Saw IV

    Movie Review | Ali | 6th November 2007

    The first thing you see in Saw IV is Jigsaw's balls. A sign of things to come? Most definitely. Despite the death of cinema's favourite ironic punisher, his work will live on - a mysterious tape concealed in the deceased's gut will see to that - but sadly the people tasked with continuing his legacy have done a bit of a slapdash...

  • Saw 2

    Movie Review | Ali | 2nd March 2006

    The original Saw was something of a triumph - a tightly-plotted schlock horror that used its budget limitations to its advantage and pinched all the right bits from the genre to forge a grisly identity all of its own. Just a year later, the inevitable sequel rears its ugly, pig head - it wasn't particularly wanted or needed, ye...