The company behind the Saw franchise, Twisted Pictures, is ramping up to do a new horror/thriller flick with Charlie Sheen that was originally going to be called “Tortured” (they dropped the name because another film is on the way with a similar title). The concept behind the film is a damn interesting one. Our friends over at Cinematical give us this:
It was last April when the news first hit that the duo behind the Saw franchise were hard at work on a new story to gross out audiences with. This one will center on a happy couple whose child is kidnapped and then killed by a pedophile. Unsatisfied with the results of the court system, the two decide to kidnap their son’s killer and exact a little revenge of their own.
This is an interesting idea for a couple of reason. First of all we love movies where someone is righteously pissed off and is going to do something about it… but secondly it’s a new angle on the modern trend of “torture porn” movies. Instead of having helpless little boys and girls getting their toes cut off or their eyes blowtorched out…. it seems we’re going to see someone get the torture treatment that we think DESERVES it. Will this resonate with audiences? Hard to say… but I think it will. I can imagine a lot of people standing to cheer when a son-of-a-bitch child rapist gets his dick snapped off by a pair of hedge clippers by an angry father out for revenge!
But here’s the problem. Can you make an entire movie out of this concept? It sounds like it would be better suited for an episode of the Twilight Zone or something episodic like that. Can you do a full 90 – 120 minutes with this? Hard for me to imagine while still making it interesting.
