The germ of the idea that became “Saw” was a simple one: two men, locked in a room, with a body lying between them. James Wan and Leigh Whannell, film school classmates at the Royal Melbourne ...

PEOPLE spoke with Wan — who co-created the 'Saw' franchise and directed the first film, which turns 20 on Oct. 29 — about the ...

Saw director James Wan "would've taken certain things on a different path" had he continued to lead the gory franchise. "But that's why I've never necessarily been critical about where the ...

2004’s Saw first started out as a low-budget indie film that expanded into eleven terrifying movies. On its 20th anniversary, director James Wan talks about the Saw franchise’s legacy as well ...

James Wan is looking back on 20 gory years of Saw. In a conversation with PEOPLE surrounding the milestone anniversary of the horror classic, the filmmaker — who got his big break with Saw in ...