Tag: Amanda

The Spooktacular Eight #32: Saint Maud (2019)

I guess it’s a new tradition for the rubric to end on something “nun themed”, but we’re doing something a bit more recent this time too, with 2019’s Saint Maud.

Again, like i said in the Possessor review, it might feel like a lifetime ago due to the pandemic, but yes, 2019 is recent in my book, and i wanted to check this out in cinemas (even more as it got really good critical reception) but it never came out here, so i imported a UK Bluray and we’re finally getting to it now.

The premise sees a nurse named Katie fail to save the life of a patient in her care, which prompts her to quit, only to return sometime later, calling herself Maud, as a devout Catholic working again as anurse, for a private paliative care in an English seaside town.

One day she gets tasked to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer who’s got a terminal stage four case of lymphoma (as in: cancer), who starts fearing for the black nothing awaiting her after death, making Maud believe that God has tasked her to comfort and convert an atheist’s soul, becoming obsessed with saving her from damnation, at all costs..

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[EXPRESSO] Saw X (2023) | Getting Jiggy With

(sorry for the late delivery of this review)

You know what, despite the conceptual defeat that Lionsgate is just giving up and bringing back Tobin Bell for a new Saw entry…. i’m ok with this, as i’m glad to have both the original Jigsaw character and Amanda back, since this one plays – as it is in style at the now – as a legacy sequel set between Saw and Saw II, after a very crappy “sequel” and a decent but ultimately not that convicing or different reboot/stand alone entry of Spiral.

So i don’t mind falling back to the better elements of the franchise, ignoring the whole mess the post-Saw III chapters were (though we have Kevin Greutert, the longtime series’ editor that also directed Saw VI and The Final Chapter), so we can have Tobin Bell’s character again, this time going to Mexico in order to try a risky experimental medical procure to have its cancer cured.

Once he realizes it’s a scam, he proceeds to kidnap those responsable and subject them to his trademark series of retributional death traps and their gruesome rules

At worst, it’s at least conforting to have a proper entry with Tobin Bell in it… or so i was gonna say, but i was pleasantly surprised because Saw it’s not only a return to form for the series, it’s also a return to good form, playing to all the positives of the franchise and it’s indeed the best one since the original, with great characters (both returning and even the new faces), deviously contrived traps that don’t feel like “overkill”, and a surprisingly strong script.

Definitely the better Saw film in a long time, to the point you can even argue it makes for a better Saw II than the actual Saw II.