SHOCK N ROLL ISSUE 8! JAMES WAN - SAW 2004: THE LOST INTERVIEW!
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An introduction from SHOCK N ROLL's Tim Sullivan:
"With SAW 5 hitting the video shelves this past week, it hit me that five years ago I had done an interview with James Wan that was meant to be the first edition of SHOCK N ROLL. Horrifically, I misplaced the tape, and the interview never saw (ahem) the light of day. But just as Jigsaw always finds a way to resurrect himself, so too did this tape, mismarked in a draw as the soundtrack to DETROIT ROCK CITY. Imagine my surprise when, expecting some rock and roll KISS action, I instead was greeted to the ever exuberant Australian accent of none other than James Wan! The lost Interview!"
"It really got to me hearing James and I speak for the first time. Since then, we’ve become good pals who have each made several films and watched SAW become a major franchise and sub genre (dubbed, rightly or wrongly, as torture porn) that has spawned four widely successful sequels with no end in sight. It’s extremely hard to think of the horror community pre-SAW or pre- WAN, but when James and I spoke back in 2004, that was exactly the setting! So strap on the time machine- watch out for spikes, razors, needles and other contraptions, and read on. Oh, yes, there will be blood."
Click the frame below to read the lost interview with JAMES WAN!
"With SAW 5 hitting the video shelves this past week, it hit me that five years ago I had done an interview with James Wan that was meant to be the first edition of SHOCK N ROLL. Horrifically, I misplaced the tape, and the interview never saw (ahem) the light of day. But just as Jigsaw always finds a way to resurrect himself, so too did this tape, mismarked in a draw as the soundtrack to DETROIT ROCK CITY. Imagine my surprise when, expecting some rock and roll KISS action, I instead was greeted to the ever exuberant Australian accent of none other than James Wan! The lost Interview!"
"It really got to me hearing James and I speak for the first time. Since then, we’ve become good pals who have each made several films and watched SAW become a major franchise and sub genre (dubbed, rightly or wrongly, as torture porn) that has spawned four widely successful sequels with no end in sight. It’s extremely hard to think of the horror community pre-SAW or pre- WAN, but when James and I spoke back in 2004, that was exactly the setting! So strap on the time machine- watch out for spikes, razors, needles and other contraptions, and read on. Oh, yes, there will be blood."
Click the frame below to read the lost interview with JAMES WAN!
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