The Saw is Family
- wemassacre
- 1 day ago
- 6 min read
One thing you can take from horror films is the loyalty of The Sawyer Family from Tobe Hooper and friends' 1974 classic. It was under the guidance of a single-mom with 4 kids in a strict Christian environment, alongside my younger sister, and 1 other young girl, were we all treated to a screening of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on VHS. Needless to say, with no frame of reference or explanation for movie violence, animatronics, the tape seemed as real as the fights I'd watch on a bootleg copy of UFC 2, and then 1, and then....
The Family aspect stuck with me and that style is how we approach film production. Like the Sawyers casing their environment, finding folks for the chili, and then serving it up to the locals.
Tobe produced the Texas Chainsaw Massacre '74 for $140,000 which, to be honest, isn't indy cash in our book, but much love to a guy for getting a whiff of that much fucking cash. I can also appreciate Tobe rolling the dice and trying to secure a PG rating for the film. Classy.
For most honest and sincere fans Sally Hardesty got a way and Leatherface passed of old age when Marilyn and Gunnar passed. The look-a-likes for the Nutlix -vision of TCM was like taking a time machine to watch the nWo and out strolls Kane and Rick Bognar (respectively) aka Fake Diesel and Fake Razor.
In some ways it would have been slick if WWF kept fake Razor around like Masters of The Universe had Faker. Faker is an evil, blue-skinned, robotic duplicate of He-Man created by Skeletor to impersonate the hero and cause chaos. While designed to look exactly like He-Man, with the key difference being glowing, hollow eyes, variations in his color scheme and backstory exist between the vintage toy, cartoon, and comic versions. If WWF had the Fake Razor as a character chiming in, or interupting Steve Austin, only to get his ass-whipped would have been comic-gold in the vein of Damien Sandow and The Miz or other comedy-wrestling material with tongue in cheek characters.
I loved Faker from MOTU too because he had the NES Jason and Batman color palette. John Cena being the He-Man of WWE deserved a Faker and Ron Cena could have been a taste. Man, I swear wrestling would benefit greatly if they could resurrect comic books.
Wrestlers had a certain quality of family about them too, speaking of counterfeiter and wearing masks, potentially freaking people out. If a victim or someone from the outside blows in backstage it was the job of the family to protect each others gimmicks.
If you are the local boy making it you are supposed to let you friends know you are losing because these guys are badasses and they're breaking you in and then you were supposed to be the toughest of your friends. Anyone who trains and engages wins and loses regularly in some way, shape, or form, to find growth. You're potentially the Brometheus bringing the fire to the friends and frontline.
Sally survived to warn people how hard hitting and psycho that group was. That territory is dangerous, the family sells for each other.
Families are indeed made up of different structures and at the heart of them their is LIFE as a NUCLEUS. It has something that jump starts the family that doesn't just come from nowhere. It has requirements. Once those required are honored then things kick off and grow.
We champion the line, "The Saw is Family", this is because we like to try and be as multiple meaning'd with our words since it is unlucky people will even read this or see most of our work and so we plant as many seeds as possible, like the conservative, John Chapman from Ohio,
Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting[1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, I wonder why he was conservative? What benefits is there in being conservative on matters that involve Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a conceptualisation of the needs (or goals) that motivate human behaviour, which was proposed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow.
I do clip some references from WIKI for a basic understanding, so check out my melody, Bizkit.
In case the interviews have been erased or taken down by channels and endeavors long since archived, let it be said here and now. Robert Balewicz is the reason The Saw is Family. He loved Steve's mom and started a family and had two sons. Steve formed We Massacre with his best friends, a pair of Aces from the edge of the county. We didn't call it We Massacre at the time because we were busy getting after it and the name didn't matter as much as the platform we were building, the relationship we were building, and the family spawned from a nuclear family.
A good father set the stage for this. I didn't say a good father gives an easy fucking ride. Like when Mick's dad, Michael H. Sawyer, took his mom and sister to see EASY RIDER (1969), now I will say this about the Sawyer family. Any movie, at any time, no warnings, no age restrictions. But then again they, John the Best Bro of The Word, said that his best friends said judgement isn't reserved for the Father. So that is just more of the Process.
This gets back to what I am saying about beginnings, origins, it is all contingent on something that people want to ignore and take advantage or, like a credit card with a bill paid with grace. That isn't an appeal for a rulebook this is an homage to FAMILY and stating that when we say THE SAW IS FAMILY we mean it.
The Saw isn't on the online debate or measuring the producing credibility of other filmmakers and that is why we aren't online flexing about paying people, or how the scene blows but won't say names, or get bogged down with endless reviews where you slowly realize that all these cats are giving A's for effort, and meanwhile we'ze giving D's for N'eez.
If you hang out with us, we're eating a fucking pizza at some point. I'm a fucking ninja turtle at heart, a balding Elias Koteas under the hockey mask, wolfing down a few slices between takes. When we had a grill and invited everyone out for a good time for the FISTSWINGS '76 FESTIVAL. Wicked Ryan's dad, Villabaldo served at a few hundred ears of Hot Buttered Corn and handing out chopped-n-screwed Will Smith CDs.
This crew is family and we roll in like a bunch of Pilgrims hitting the sea seeking artistic freedoms and adventure. Ready to make films as we see fit without having anyone breathing down our necks or worrying about certifications or pulling permits and blowing your budget from some coin fleecin' film commissioner.
We're so far underground that shit doesn't seep into limestone caves, we're down here beneath the bedrock, tunnel runners. we're watching the Behind the Scenes and studying H.R. Geiger and Alfred Hitchcock, peeping their techniques and applying the sweetness mother fuckers. Like an apprentice to the texts and forms, with no master to guide us other than the Process.
Creation. Look at what is being churned out by The Process. You call it Creation when you do it but you can't give it up to what is casting us all in the Cosmic scene.
Carl Sagan once said this, ""If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"
Writing Universe, Marvel Universes, Creek County, Stephen King Universe, Minecraft Worlds, Multiverses, all need something first, and you can't keep ignoring the importance of the Main Component in Creation. Something is Producing Naturing.
(Source: 4000 BC - Words begin to appear, Creation starts, content creating, compliments tend to make no cents, nor bring confidence, but in my defense, most of y'all make no sense, so let the coup de grace commence, and to the pest buzzing my tail and can understand what the 'gay painter Basquiat' inspired rapper said at the end of [Takeover] when he only had half a bar to give and left nothing to pour in the jigger.
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