For years on the internet and in public conscious, the Saw franchise was crowned the emergence and king of the “torture porn” horror subgenre. I’m not the first to say thats a drastic misrepresentation of both what the franchise seeks to accomplish and what it actually accomplishes. The phrase “torture porn” is intentionally provocative and reductive, misleading anyone who holds this idea in their head to think that Saw VI is just the sixth round in a “who can die the craziest” arcade game and not an examination of the exploitative American Healthcare system and the violence and pain it…
Author: Tuwa
(this article was written in the moments following the conclusion of marvel’s panel on July 27th) Despite my ongoing grievances with the creative process and their (what feels like) constantly diminishing creative output, i am a fan of the marvel franchise at heart. I can still smell the heat radiating off a busted old projector filling my house on a saturday morning in 2008 as i was introduced to Jon favreau and robert downey jr.’s iron man. To call it a formative experience would be potentially underselling it. The icing on the cake was the eventual love I garnered for…