James Wan has devoted himself with skill and wisdom to revisit the commonplace of horror by trying to modernize them and give them a contemporary aesthetic. The work done with Saw – The enigmatic was remarkable for the innovation made to a sneak – that on serial killers – at that point really exhausted for the super exploitation it had been subjected to. The ingenuity of the plots and the push towards the limit – and beyond – of the cruelty shown and exhibited have created a huge success that has generated many imitators, more than sometimes with little merit (but this is not Wan’s fault) . The same approach, Wan attempted it without any particular success with Dead Silence, revision of the diabolical puppet movies, and the brutal Death Sentence, raw and quite unresolved. But these false steps were just part of an aging process that led to the creation of two new successful franchises, the one of Insidious and the one generated by The Evocation – The Conjuring (with the other spin-off series , Annabelle)...
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