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Sure, it never spared us the gory details, but it also had the intelligence behind it.
The intelligence of what? 'Cause I think a small colony of tapeworms could come up with something smarter than Saw.

Nutcases going out teaching people "justice" or to appreciate life or whatever is not new. Neither is it big, clever, or valid.
I know that it's not exactly the newest thing to hit the horror/psychological thriller genre, but Saw presented some of the older ideas about that genre in a new light. Plus, as I said, it brought the idea of gore to a whole new level. Except it wasn't pointless. At least in the first film it wasn't. In Saw, all the violence and gore that was witnessed directly added to the storyline and the development of the characters, whereas in previous gory films, it might have been just for the sake of being gory. Sure there was some necessary gore, but Saw was one of the few films I have seen where pretty much all of the gore was directly related to the plot. Because everything that they had to do to themselves was a perfect irony of what they've done either to themselves or other people in the past. It was poetic in that sense, and added an edge to the film that I definitely liked.