The politics of horror

By Patrick Kevin Day and Jevon Phillips

'Saw VI,' 2009
The audacity of hope has led to a popular president, but an alarming drop in jobs, a seemingly unsolvable healthcare crisis and a sliding housing market are foremost on the minds of many Americans. When William Easton denies a man a loan to get a medical procedure (which he later dies from), it's just the first of many choices during and at the end of the movie that twist morality and allow this franchise to thrive.