“Torture Porn” was a factor within the 2000s, one thing I am nonetheless making an attempt to wrap my head round. Admittedly, a part of slasher movies’ enchantment is the outlandish demise scenes. Nevertheless, that was the unique enchantment of torture porn. Earlier than you accuse me of being an previous man yelling at clouds (which I’m, btw) I will acknowledge one collection that stood aside: “Noticed.” The “Noticed” collection helped launch “torture porn” and was insanely common, spawning 9 motion pictures in lower than 20 years, and turning into an annual Halloween custom from 2004-2010. 

Even for individuals who don’t love “torture porn,” its storyline is iconic and helped set up Tobin Bell as a horror legend. Dying from an incurable illness, the central character Jigsaw (Bell) does what any regular, well-adjusted particular person would do, and forces harmless victims to play elaborate video games to avoid wasting their lives. With these items in place, “Noticed” was mainly a license to print money. Whereas virtually all of them made lots of cash, the collection hit its peak with “Noticed III,” which banked $163 million in 2006, or $236 million in the present day. “Noticed” give up whereas it was forward with 2010’s “Noticed 3D,” got here again for 2017’s profitable legacy sequel, “Jigsaw,” after which produced the franchise’s lone bomb, “Spiral,” in 2022. Starring and conceived by Chris Rock, this pseudo-sequel/spinoff did not join and doubtless confused audiences too. With $39 million worldwide on a $20 million funds, you may say “Noticed” discovered itself between (Chris) Rock and a tough place.