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SAW: HOUSE OF JIGSAW is here! Check Maniac’s blog (English subtitles included!)

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Maniac and I are working together on a new edit once again! We worked on Hannibal TV series edits, The Girl on the Train, Jigsaw: A History of Desperation, Jigsaw II: Endgame and Halloween saga. Now it’s time for another Saw fanedit…

SAW: HOUSE OF JIGSAW - a re-edited and extended version of Saw X (2023) – one of the best and most profound entries. We want to elevate and make it smarter even more. Our goals:

• Deepen the story by bringing back the most vital deleted material that expands the lore, fleshes out the characters’ arcs and challenges Jigsaw’s morality in a fresh way. The scenes included: 16: John consults with William; 41: Gabriela makes breakfast; 89: Wake up in the main test (only two scenes); 100: That’s not how we do things; 107: Parker unchained, John Wayne Gacy and 141: Cecilia escapes.

• Make Cecilia Parker less cartoonishly evil and more fleshed out, so that she’s a balanced counterpart for John’s philosophy and his hypocrisy.

• Remove a number of mistakes, cringe-worthy scenes and corny lines (especially by Cecila). Trim the excessive gore and make some traps to be more “fair” and less frustrating for the viewers. It is a version of the film that even not-gore fans can watch for the good story (it’s more thriller now than horror).

• Improve the clunky pace in the 2nd act of the movie.

I hope you will like this new version. If you have any suggestions or ideas, let us know 😉.

Stay tuned, all Saw fans. Soon available on Maniac’s fantastic blog.

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I can hardly wait! And Polish fans are literally begging for part 4. Keep up the good work 😉

I’m glad you’re improving your edits to create the best possible movie experience. I wonder if you come back to them after the grand finale

Nice. Are you only going to add titles to each edit, or are you re-making your edits from the scratch?

Nicely done - I’m a great fan of Hannibal Lecter but I’ve never been a fan of this film. Maybe with your recuts and re-scores you can create a better movie. Manhunter has always been like a 1980s TV cop drama instead of a decent cinematic thriller.

Always happy to see a review 😉. English subtitles now available to both Halloween edits.

We’re back! And our Halloween edits:

THE SHAPE: A combo of H1 (1978) and H2 (1981). It has re-scores from the Halloween soundtrack from 2018 & H:Kills (2021). But to make it even darker and more gruesome, Maniac used new sound effects and Tyler Bates’s music from the Rob Zombie movies. The atmosphere is heavier and more sickening now. The pace is tighter and a lot of bad stuff from H2 has been removed, And Myers’s eyes are blackened out! H1-H2 has been done many times before by countless editors, but this is something special 😉.

Edited Maniac

THE SHAPE RETURNS: A streamlined and re-scored edit of Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (1988). It contains H1-H2 flashbacks to make a better connection with the first films and let the story come full circle at the end. Plus new Loomis’s monologes.
• Michael Myers’s actions and presence are more suspenseful and sometimes done off-screen (limited shots of his poorly made mask and visible shoulder pads under his costume).
• Cut a number of obnoxious scenes or lines and fix some errors.
• Change the aspect ratio to 2.35:1 (in the vibe of H1-H2).
• New sound effects; new music by John Carpenter from David Gordon Green’s 2018-2022 trilogy plus a few tracks from various Halloween chapters. Maniac did a tremendous and difficult job to achieve it.

Edited By Maniac
Script by Zagadka
Special thanks to LastSurvivor for an insightful feedback 😃.

So you have THE SHAPE and THE SHAPE RETURNS to create one story. Or each of them can be viewed as stand-alone movies.

Happy Halloween from us. More info on:

https://maniac1962.blogspot.com

Hi there.
Your HALLOWEEN mini series looks promising 😃. So it’s like a TV series, right? Is a final version? Are you going to expend on the story when Halloween Kills extended cut is released (and Halloween Ends for that matter?

PM me.

Heavysyde said:

Left a review here. Great work.

Thank you a lot, Heavysyde 😃. What a wonderful and insightful review - I’m really glad that you enjoyed our show (and that you helped us to improve it. That was very kind of you ;D.

Merry Christmas everyone! Our JIGSAW II fanedit is available now - you can find more info on Maniac’s blog 😉.

Our last edit of 2021. It was an enormous amount of work to put it all together both on paper and then during the editing process. There were lot of music re-scores, some experimental things to see if it works, and finally, after long long hours of work every day, we had the first workprint that Heavysyde & Heavy-Patience helped us to improve - thanks a lot guys for your feedback and suggestions - it was invaluable 😃.

I hope people who have never watched SAW movies will enjoy JIGSAW 1-2 edits as we tried to focus more on story and characters and limit gore to bare minimum. And for SAW fans it’ll be the alternative version of their favorite stories.

Best wishes 😃. Enjoy our present for us 😉.

Our workprint is ready. Are there any volunteers that would like to rate the workprint and share any suggestions? 😉. Send me a PM if you wish 😃.

JIGSAW II: ENDGAME (2021) - RELEASED

by Maniac & Zagadka

A sequel to Jigsaw: A History of Desperation (2020) fan edit. Based upon the SAW saga.

John Kramer aka “The Jigsaw Killer” (Tobin Bell) and his apprentices plan the final game teaching people to appreciate the value of their lives. Two FBI profilers, Agent Peter Strahm and Agent Lindsey Perez, help detectives sift through Jigsaw’s test and piece together his past and a mortal puzzle.

Part II is a new spin on the story (edited from Saw 3-4 and scenes from other entries) - more character driven plot, new surprises, less gore and the alternate ending. We wanted to play with the source material a bit and bend the story that you already know, so we used all Saw films and created something different, in the spirit of the psychological thriller than horror.

The fan edit is done in 2.40 ratio with DTS 7.1. sound.
A new soundtrack by Fesliyan Studios and Charlie Clouser.

More info on (English subtitles included):
http://maniac1962.blogspot.com

Edited by Maniac
From the mind of Zagadka
Feedback and special thanks to: Heavysyde & Heavy-Patience
Blu-ray cover made by my sister 😉

Yes, definitely something I wish to check - I love everything that is Hannibal Lecter related. I wonder how your take on it works 😃. Back in the days, I and Maniac worked on Hannibal (2001) and TV Series fanedits (check here: maniac1962.blogspot.com).

Looking forward to it - any other Hannibal fanedits in plans? 😉

THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN is a Maniac’s fan edit of The Girl on the Train (2016) movie based upon Paula Hawkins’s thriller novel. The aim is to tell the story from Rachel’s (Emily Blunt) perspective only and with the alternate ending (a small twist 😉. A few clunky bits of dialog and exposition ruined the atmosphere and mystery about the killer’s identity. With a tighter running time and the removal of the cringeworthy scenes, there’s an actually good and dark thriller hidden under some melodrama trash.

There fanedit is rescored with Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross’s music (Gone Girl) and Ólafur Arnalds’ (Broadchurch TV series) music.
Running time: 84 min

More info on:
http://maniac1962.blogspot.com/

Edited by Maniac
Idea by Zagadka

It’s a project of a faneditor Maniac – THE HEWITT FAMILY. He’s made a fanedit of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (2003) & “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” (2006), editing them together into a 126 min movie. The fanedit improves the pace of both films, fixes some issues and creates a bit alternative version of what you know from the original movies.

The fan edit is done in a 2.40 ratio with DTS sound converted from 5.1 to 7.1. It includes a few music re-scores by Tyler Bates.

More info on Maniac blog (English subtitles & Bluray cover provided):

http://maniac1962.blogspot.com

Edited by Maniac
Feedback & English subtitles by Zagadka
Bluray cover by Monttsserat

Yep, it’s finally here, folks! It was a very difficult and demending fanedit, but I believe it’s one of Maniac’s best edits 😃! I’ve been a SAW fan for so many years, and I’ve always wanted to tell my own story out of these movies. And thanks to Maniac, after so many years, my dreams have come fulfilled! Check this out - now it’s a thought-provoking and disturbing drama-thriller:

More info on (English subtitles available:

http://maniac1962.blogspot.com/2019/01/jigsaw-history-of-desperation.html

Edited by Maniac
From the mind of Zagadka
A BluRay cover by Anna Teodorczyk-Twardowska

JIGSAW: A HISTORY OF DESPERATION pulls the backstory of John Kramer aka “The Jigsaw Killer” that is weaved throughout the SAW franchise (2004-2017), and creates a new chronological narrative about his life, work and philosophy. It cuts down on violence to concentrate on the story and character development of Jigsaw, Jill Tuck, Amanda Young and Mark Hoffman.

It’s a fan edit from the best bits and it’s a new spin on Jigsaw’s story. It changes the tone from bloody horror into a psychological-thriller-drama movie (it’s more in style with David Fincher’s SE7EN). It restructures the timeline of flashbacks, reduces ridiculous storylines/dialogs, over the top gore, plot holes and threads without answers.
It’s in a way a spiritual remake of THE JIGSAW FILES but with many new surprises and new music score.

More info soon on:
http://maniac1962.blogspot.com

Edited by Maniac
From the mind of Zagadka

It’s a project of a faneditor Maniac and mine - HANNIBAL: LA VITA NUOVA.

We’ve made a fanedit of “Hannibal”'s NBC TV Series (Season Three first half), editing it into a 2 hours and 36 minutes long feature movie.

It’s a sequel to our edits of Seasons 1-2 – “Hannibal: The Chesapeake Ripper” and “The Memory Palace.”
Maniac recut Seasons 1-3 into feature movies. The fanedit consists from the most interesting and relevant bits of the main story. The goal of these edits isn’t to cram every detail of the series into a limited time-frame, but to create the actual film versions of dr. Hannibal Lecter story from the best bits and create a new narrative

The fan edit is done in a 2.40 ratio with DTS sound converted from 5.1 to 7.1. It includes music re-scores by Angelo Badalamenti, Hans Zimmer, Kenji Kawai.

More info on:
http://maniac1962.blogspot.com

Edited by Maniac
Idea by Zagadka

It’s a project of a faneditor Maniac and mine - HANNIBAL: THE MEMORY PALACE. We’ve made a fanedit of Hannibal’s NBC TV Series (Season Two), editing it into a 2 hours and 54 minutes long feature movie. It’s a sequel to our edit of Season 1 – HANNIBAL: THE CHESAPEAKE RIPPER .

We recut Seasons 1 & 2 into two movies. The fanedit consists from the most interesting and relevant bits of the main story without the cases-of-the-week-killers. The goal of these two edits isn’t to cram every detail of the series into a limited time-frame, but to create the actual film versions of dr. Hannibal Lecter-Will Graham story.

The fan edit is done in a 2.40 ratio with DTS sound converted from 5.1 to 7.1.
It includes music re-scores by Hans Zimmer, Rogue Banos, and Tomandandy.
 

More info can be found on Maniac blog NOW:

http://maniac1962.blogspot.com
 

Don’t forget to check for more info on part 1 first.
 

Edited by MANIAC
Based upon an idea by ZAGADKA

Jimmy Chips said:

Loved it! Can’t wait for part two!

Glad to see you liked it 😉. Part two will probably be released in July.

It’s finally HERE! (with a DVD cover by Monttsserat):

http://maniac1962.blogspot.com/2020/05/122-hannibal-chesapeake-ripper-in-works.html

Share it with your friends and family and let us know your opinion! 😃. We’re also working on Season 2 fanedit - HANNIBAL: THE MEMORY PALACE.

Hi, guys 😃.
I hope you’ll find our edit interesting and entertaining. It’ll be available on Maniac blog on June 5th in a great quality. Here’s more about the project:

Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal TV series is an interesting show with an insight into one of the most intriguing killers – dr. Hannibal Lecter. The show is brilliantly written and acted, and there lies a fanedit potential here.
Seasons 1 & 2 are be edited down to two movies about Lecter’s hidden agenda to see what’ll happen to Will Graham as his condition worsens. While “Minnesota Shrike” and “Chesapeake Ripper” plotlines are interesting, the case-of-the-week killers was rather dull; some murders were over-the-top and far-fetched. The films will consist from the most interesting and relevant bits and end with Season 2 epic finale.

The goal of these two edits isn’t to cram every detail of the series into a limited time-frame, but to create the actual film versions of Hannibal story from the best bits (Will, Hannibal, Jack Crawford cat-and-mouse play).

Any Hannibal fans around here? 😄