SawPar-icon

This is the first post of Schlockmania’s 2nd year.  To com­mem­o­rate this spe­cial occa­sion, Your Humble Reviewer wanted to do some­thing inter­est­ing and dif­fer­ent for the site’s read­ers.  With that in mind, Schlockmania would like to present its first ever short screen­play — a lit­tle col­lec­tion of barbed humor and Monty Python-style comedic gore enti­tled Stop The Deathtrap, I Want To Get Off!

The inspi­ra­tion for this script came from the Saw series.  Despite being one of the most pop­u­lar — and con­tro­ver­sial — fran­chises in the his­tory of the hor­ror genre, it’s never really done much for Your Humble Reviewer…  and after suf­fer­ing through last year’s dread­ful sev­enth (!) entry in the series, he wanted to write a response to these films and his many prob­lems with them.  That he said, he didn’t want to write the usual crit­i­cal essay and fill the crowded blo­gos­phere with yet another rant.

Instead, it seemed more inter­est­ing to respond with humor and address all the things that he wished would hap­pen in one of the ever-more-repetitive Saw sequels.  Thus, this short screen­play was born.  You can read it online if you have Adobe Acrobat incor­po­rated into your browser — or you can down­load it directly from the site in PDF form by right-clicking on the fol­low­ing link:

STOP THE DEATHTRAP, I WANT TO GET OFF!

Your Humble Reviewer hopes that you read it — and if you are kind enough to do so, he sin­cerely hopes you find a fun expe­ri­ence.  Even if you dis­agree with its satir­i­cal aims, per­haps it might get you think­ing about what you do or don’t love about the Saw series — and as always, your com­ments would be most welcome.

Happy read­ing and don’t let the bad hor­ror sequels get you down…

(Obligatory Legal Notice: the script men­tioned above has been reg­is­tered with the Writer’s Guild Of America and this is noted on its title page.  Anyone is wel­comed to read it and dis­trib­ute it to who­ever they like — but it must always be cred­ited to its author.)