| Jigsaw Put Him Together And He'll Tear You Apart A college art class tackles a bizarre project - splitting up a mannequin, they each decorate a piece. The end result is an exquisite corpse they call JIGSAW. After a night of drunken confessions, the group burns the lifeless body... But their darkest secrets come back to haunt them when their brainchild rises from the ashes, targeting each of the creators for a brutal death that is keeping with their design - the shape of their own fears. JIGSAW... Put him together and he'll tear you apart! "JIGSAW" IS HERE TO TEAR YOU APART! Don Adams and Harry James Picardi, the dou behind VENGENCE OF THE DEAD, have returned from the wils of Wisconsin with JIGSAW! JIGSAW is the story of a small college art class and their "final" exam. The assignment: to divy up the limbs of an ordinary mannequin and for each of the five classmates to take their limb home and decorate it. The decorated lims will be reassembled for the class at the end of the week. The catch: the class will be held in the local bar and the students must explain the true intentions of their project before burning the reassembled effigy in an attempt ot cathartically dispell their darkest secrets. But the class has made a fatal mistake - through the efforts of their expression, each limb has come to embody a piece of their personalities they' rather forget. Now, recombined, with the fiery motivation for revenge, their final project has formed a life pf its own... all JIGSAW needs is a body of flesh to house his dark soul. And he'll get it, one piece at a time! Those who witnessed VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD can expect a more well-rounded experience from JIGSAW's co-creators. Don Adams and Harry James Picardi have made a honest, heartfelt effort to craft a film far beyond the psychological aspects of your average Full Moon production (which was also the company's last with Tempe Entertainment, who co-present JIGSAW). "The biggest difference between JIGSAW and VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD would have to be the seven-year gap between the productions - the amount of growth and experience for both Harry and I, and the crew," co-director Don Adams explains. JIGSAW deals with "what's inside people, what makes them behave the way they do, and what that leads to...it pretty much reflects the way we are in life, which you would hope your movies would do. Especially when you're talking about a big killer puppet - I mean, that's so ridiculous, the only way to work it is to treat it as seriously as possible." The movie isn't ALL serious as Adams reveals: "We've never been fans of funny horror movies. And yet somehow, we have made one. It's very reactionary - bitter maybe, coping humor. And most of the laughs are in the first half... once the supernatural takes over, there's really no time for anybody to be doing anything but dying." |
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| Adams and partner-in-crime Harry James Picardi produced, edited, wrote and directed JIGSAW over a sparse two and a half month period. The pair went days without sleep and maintained a level of commitment that could only come from a true love of filmmaking at every stage of the grueling production. The production itself is detailed on Full Moon's double feature DVD in a hilarious making-of featurette, possibly the best in Tempe history! Ultimately, Adams himself sums up the film best: "To me, the best part about JIGSAW is it stands on its own - you don't need to hear how little it cost, or how it was made, or the odds against it - all you gotta do is watch it. It's got some great tunes, and woodsy night exteriors, Tangerine Dreamy keyboards, chicks in their underwear, a feeling of impending doom, it's got IDEAS - it's an honest to God horror movie, it could have come from 1985." JIGSAW premiered on the big screen at Chicago's Flashback Weekend, thrilling a packed house with it's unique blend of intelligent humor and psychological horror. Now, JIGSAW has come home curtesy of an extras-packed double-feature DVD (with TOTEM) |