Alan Is Good

YouTube made a small logo adjustment this morning in celebration of reaching 1 billion views per day.  CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley gives an update on the YouTube Global blog (which is strangely hosted on BlogSpot, party like its 1999, I guess) and reiterates the three principles of online video that YouTube has always held paramount: More »

No apologies for any bias or skew this post may contain.  The past 5 years have been horrendous for American horror, and original films like the SAW franchise have been our only saving grace from throwing in the towel and letting Japan go ahead and handle the entire genre.

Yes, the SAW franchise is five sequels deep.  I strongly recommend watching them chronologically, as the story definitely builds upon each previous movie.  In an age with remakes abound,  films produced around gore/new CGI tricks instead of storyline and plot, the SAW franchise is original, unpredictable, and THE most successful horror franchise ever.  Fact.

I put together a rough breakdown of the box office success the SAW franchise has seen to date:

(Hover over the movie posters to see movie data) More »