When a horror movie says that it’s based on a true story, we should often take it with a grain of salt. They may have roots in reality, or be inspired by real events or people, but rarely are they actually based on true accounts. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre famously claims to be based on a true story, but is really just loosely inspired by the crimes of real-life serial killer Ed Gein. Still, it’s always scary to see the foreboding “based on a true story” tagline in a horror movie, because a lot of times the story is so totally messed up that we don’t want to even think about the real people behind it. So the idea of anything in the Saw franchise being even remotely rooted in reality is, to put it simply, horrifying. But writers Leigh Whannell and James Wan revealed that the first film in the franchise has a lot of real-world inspiration, and shared the true stories that formed the gorey franchise.
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