Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Two men wake up chained in a grimy, dirty bathroom, with only a rusty saw to escape. The serial killer nicknamed "Jigsaw" challenges them to make an impossible choice for their survival.
James Wan
James Wan is an Australian producer, director and screenwriter. At the age of 11, his desire to become a film director led him to study at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), from which he graduated in Arts and Film. Before becoming popular in the film industry, he directed his first feature film Stygian with Shannon Young, which won Best Guerrilla Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2002. He went on to make a name for himself directing films such as Saw, Insidious,* Conjuring*, Fast and Furious 7 and Aquaman.
