I’m not a fan of the Saw films, but I’m extremely happy that it did well at the box office this weekend. Horror hater Nikki Finke, no doubt morally high off of her concession by Eli Roth, is  a little dismayed by Saw 4’s weekend box office. Her headline: “Sickos make Saw IV Friday’s number 1 film”. Here’s Finke’s insightful analysis:

“Lionsgate’s disgusting Saw IV whose “R” rating comes from sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout. But the sickos who scream for this insanely profitable $250M franchise poured $14.7 million into 3,183 theaters for what should be a healthy $34 million opening weekend overall. (That’s comparable to Saw III’s $33.6 mil opening in 2006…) So, once again, here’s an example of the public propping up hardcore horror just when Hollywood was starting to rethink making these kinds of disturbed pics. “

What’s funny about this is that she took credit for “destroying” Eli Roth’s career and made it look like she single handedly destroyed “torture” horror…and what happens? Saw makes a ton of money. Now suddenly us “sickos” have come out where we didn’t before?

Or maybe Finke is just a stupid moron? I vote the latter

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