{"id":594951,"date":"2023-10-19T05:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-saw-game-as-online-date-from-hell\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T05:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:18:24","slug":"watch-a-saw-game-as-online-date-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-saw-game-as-online-date-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A &#8216;Saw&#8217; Game as Online Date From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29e91ae9a6b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29e91ae9a6b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-saw-game-as-online-date-from-hell\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_%E2%80%98Saw_Game_as_Online_Date_From_Hell%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A &#8216;Saw&#8217; Game as Online Date From Hell&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-saw-game-as-online-date-from-hell\/#%E2%80%9CA_%E2%80%98Saw_Game_as_Online_Date_From_Hell%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A &#8216;Saw&#8217; Game as Online Date From Hell&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_%E2%80%98Saw_Game_as_Online_Date_From_Hell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A &#8216;Saw&#8217; Game as Online Date From Hell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_%E2%80%98Saw_Game_as_Online_Date_From_Hell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A &#8216;Saw&#8217; Game as Online Date From Hell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Everywhere you look these days there are over-the-top horror <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, but the torture-porn genre of the \u201cSaw\u201d films \u2014 homicidal mutilation served up as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>,\u201d with life lessons thrown in \u2014\u00a0is more or less limited to the \u201cSaw\u201d franchise. There haven\u2019t been too many knockoffs of it. \u201cSoul Mates,\u201d however, has been unabashedly made in the carnival-of-ick mode of \u201cSaw.\u201d It even opens with two characters in handcuffs, wondering how they got to the dungeon in which they\u2019re about to be toyed with like human lab rats. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Allison (Annie Ilonzeh) and Jason (Charlie Weber) wake up in the same bed, with metal bracelets on their wrists and a three-foot-long chain linking them together. For a moment there\u2019s a <em>dear-God-WTF-did-I-do-last-night? <\/em>vibe, but these two have, in fact, never met. At first she thinks he\u2019s a predator who has kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed her, and she uses a lamp to fend him off. But it turns out that a third party has done this to them. And here\u2019s the punchline: It\u2019s an online dating service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The site is called Soul Mates, and Allison and Jason, trapped in a brackish green industrial maze, are about to go through a hookup from hell. Their tour guide and master of sadistic ceremonies is a white-haired fey creep called the Matchmaker, who appears before them in videos, where he introduces each new set piece of their nightmare by saying things like, \u201cSign up for Soul Mates before the walls of loneliness close in on <em>you!\u201d <\/em>(At which point the walls literally start to close in on them.) The Matchmaker is played by the TV veteran Neal McDonough, who leers delectably and over-enunciates like a cross between William Shatner and Paul\u2019s Grandfather in \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night.\u201d He\u2019s the Jigsaw mascot of \u201cSoul Mates,\u201d but who behind the Matchmaker is pulling the strings? This is the sort of film where you ask that question realizing that you don\u2019t care much about the answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Allison and Jason are led from one lethal gross-out game to the next, each a sick-joke parody of some first-date activity that people who met online might engage in. We don\u2019t learn much about the two characters (she claims to hate online dating; he turns out to be wealthy tech bro). And the stale romantic clich\u00e9-ness of it all is as close as the film comes to satire. It\u2019s sort of saying, \u201cHere\u2019s how meeting on a website kicks off relationships in a deadly generic way.\u201d (Not that people did this much different before.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    First up is a karaoke bar. Allison and Jason each have a turn at the mic, and the idea is: They both have to sing well enough to win an audience-approval rating that will keep an onstage victim, bound and ball-gagged and hanging in the air, from being lowered into a meat grinder. She sings Phil Collins\u2019 \u201cIn the Air Tonight\u201d and does a decent job. But Jason\u2019s rendition of Lil Wayne\u2019s \u201cHow to Love\u201d is godawful. Before he\u2019s halfway through, the victim has been lowered into the blades and churned into a long rope of hamburger. (This is a \u201cSaw\u201d where someone else suffers for your sins.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    From there it\u2019s on to a \u201cfancy\u201d restaurant dinner, with Italian opera in the background, where if Allison and Jason don\u2019t consume the appetizer (a big pile of bruschetta) and the main course (some mystery meat with mashed potatoes\u00a0\u2014 the precise nature of the food will become relevant later on) within minutes, the waitress, who has a metal band strapped around her neck, will be promptly electrocuted. Then they\u2019re off to the movies, where that ancient \u201cLet\u2019s all go to the <em>Lob<\/em>-by!\u201d concession trailer precedes a live snuff film in which Jason\u2019s estranged brother gets shot in the head. Actually, it\u2019s a double feature: That first film looks civilized next to what happens to Jason\u2019s fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As directed by Mark Gantt, \u201cSoul Mates\u201d is watchable semi-extreme trash. It\u2019s not as good as the best \u201cSaw\u201d films, but it\u2019s better than the worst of them. (Never did I suspect that film criticism would come to this.) The movie, it turns out, has one real trick to play on the audience. We think we\u2019re watching a dating-site splatterfest in which the moral of the story is that the couple that lives out a chintzy faux \u201cSaw\u201d movie together stays together. But actually, \u201cSoul Mates\u201d is setting us up for the kill. The film\u2019s theme song is \u201cGetting to Know You\u201d \u2014 the original trilling version from \u201cThe King and I\u201d (1956), sung by Marni Nixon (who provided the voice for Deborah Kerr). And that bauble of catchy innocence is meant to underlie that in the age of online dating, getting to know you has never been a more deceptive \u2014 or treacherous \u2014 hall of mirrors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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