“High school student by day… and a Hollywood Hooker by night.” With those immortal words, the most popular teen prostitute saga in America movie history was unleashed upon a shocked and salivating world. The Angel Collection now brings together this explosive hit trilogy, starring Donna Wilkes, Betsy Russell and Mitzi Kapture respectively as the tough yet tender teenage hooker who changed the shape of titillation action films forever!

From the Press Release
Game over. The final chapter of the most popular horror franchise in history comes home as Lionsgate releases the film in a variety of formats for the home viewing audience. SAW The Final Chapter will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack (two discs including Blu-ray and DVD – as well as code to download a Digital Copy on iTunes). The film will also be available as a 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, Digital Download and On Demand January 25th.

Fans see the game come full circle with SAW veteran Kevin Greutert (Director, SAW VI; Editor, SAW I-V) at the helm of the bloodiest and deadliest film yet. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, SAW) returns as Dr. Gordon, and joins the cast of Tobin Bell (the SAW series), Costas Mandylor (Sinners & Saints), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints). Both the Blu-ray Combo Packs and DVD allow audiences inside the film series with director and producer commentary, deleted scenes and music videos. The Blu-ray versions go further with a special featurette, “52 Ways to Die”, recounting the traps from all the SAW films and more.

In the seventh and final installment, SAW The Final Chapter leaves no question unanswered. As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s (Bell) brutal legacy, a group of the killer’s survivors gather to seek the support of a self-help guru. However, fellow survivor Bobby Dagen’s (Flanery) dark secrets unleash a whole new wave of terror.

Pricing: Blu-ray Combo Pack – $39.99
Pricing: 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack – $49.99
Pricing: DVD – $29.95

It’s game over (perhaps finally), but Saw 3D feels a lot like Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. It’ll be the black sheep of the Saw series.

The film picks up seconds after Saw VI ended, leaving one hellbent Det. Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who now knows he was being played by Jigsaw all along, and seemingly with Jill (Betsy Russell) as the cleaner of all of Jigsaw’s loose ends, she becomes Hoffman’s primary target, as he’s executing an escape plan, by cleaning everything up once and for all. Neat set-up, and with all of the possible loose ends being tied up, Saw 3D really does feel like the finale of the series, yet it stutter-steps early and often, with a secondary story of a survivor from Jigsaw’s wicked traps, Bobby Dragen (Sean Patrick Flanery) exploiting this fact for a new self-help book.

This story opens up too many plot holes. It also feels neglected once the final act begins, leaving it as a weak excuse for a further sequel. Since Saw III, the series has had to find an inventive excuse for Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) to be in the films, even though he is dead. In Saw 3D, Jigsaw is all but a cameo, leaving the film squarely on Hoffman’s arc, which creates this uneasy feeling of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. That film has long been titled the worst of the series to some Jason fans, while over time other Jason fans relish the dark nature and kills, but no matter what, it’s the black sheep of that series because the film doesn’t include Jason. Same for Saw 3D. Hoffman is a terrorizing bad-ass, but he’s no Jigsaw.

While the 3D here wasn’t as strong as other 3D horror films, Saw 3D‘s traps and subsequent carnage is some of the top kills in the entire series. The “car trap” is one of the sickest, goriest, traps in all of the now seven films. Saw 3D delivers the carnage to new heights, seemingly as if the MPAA fell asleep during its rating review. Good stuff. As subtitled, the film does feel like an actual “final chapter”, with a finale and twist that bring the series full circle and should leave every Saw fan talking.

If viewed as a solo film, disconnected from the previous six, it’s a decent time. Yet, as a continuation of those six films, Saw fans are trapped. Too many plot holes, despite the (yeah, I call it awesome) ending, the hour before it is sloppily handled. Saw 3D will divide Saw fans.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Source: BD

The first theatrical feature to be shot exclusively on the cutting-edge SI-3D digital camera system, Saw 3D brings the horrifying games of Jigsaw to life like never before. The film stars Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell and Sean Patrick Flannery. Saw 3D is directed by Kevin Greutert.

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“Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who’s hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously? Or that chain letters using the teens’ favorite technologies to track them can kill? This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?”

“Chain Letter features a great ensemble cast led by stunning Tinsel Town ingénue Nikki Reed (Twilight). Created by Deon Taylor Enterprises and produced in association with the resoundingly successful Saw franchise.”

It hits all of the staples of the 80′s slasher genre: hot women, sloppy gore, and cheese-arama music. Add to it two white men rapping so bad it makes Vanilla Ice look like the King of Hip Hop and what you have is a ‘Late Night Classic’ you have to see as soon as possible.

Betsy Russell’s career skyrocketed to all new heights with her roles in Saw III-VII. Cheerleader Camp will never be held in the same regard as the cash cow franchise from Lionsgate, but it does have a huge cult following and many of my friends have requested a look back at this solid entry that is a cut above the direct-to-video stench we see released today.

Jason Bene: Were you ever a cheerleader in school?

Betsy Russell: I was in Pop Warner. It wasn’t for school. One time I tried out for the school and it was all girls judging and one guy, and I got one vote. I was a Pop Warner cheerleader and I was in the dance club and the choir and all that. I should have been a cheerleader, but unfortunately girls weren’t always one hundred percent on my side as they are now.

Jason Bene: The cheerleading in the film is nowhere near the intensity of a film like Bring It On, but I’m sure the filmmakers wanted some sort of on the job training for the cast.

Betsy Russell: No. They didn’t care. They wanted somebody they thought would sell their movie.

Jason Bene: After doing nudity in Private School and Tomboy, was it a relief to know the character of Alison Wentworth keeps her clothes on?

Betsy Russell: Yeah. I was so paranoid by that time. In one scene I am in a nightgown and a big homely shirt. I was trying to be the serious actor type without doing nudity. Even though there were still those types of movies I was trying my best to be the best I could and take it seriously and all that. It was a relief in the way.

Jason Bene: Megan Fox received loads of press  for her turn as a demonic cheerleader in Jennifer’s Body. I thought you were just as hot as she was, maybe this needs to be settled in a crossover sequel - Cheerleader Camp vs. Jennifer’s Body.

Betsy Russell: I’d probably be her mother. It’s all good.

Jason Bene: Leif Garrett shows up as the leading man. What can you tell us about working with the one time teen idol?

Betsy Russell: The funny thing is that I used to watch the show he was on called Three for the Road. That was a big show in my life. I was twelve years old. For the life of me I couldn’t remember if I had a crush on him or Vince [Van Patten], and when I filmed the movie I knew of him. I did the movie and I met Leif and it was all great and fun and everything. I had known him as a teen idol and I was very excited to be working with him. Right after that movie wrapped I went home to L.A. and broke up with my boyfriend and started dating Vince, and then I married him. It was really funny.

Jason Bene: I chuckle at the fact that he is the stud of the film. I guess girls in the 80′s swooned over mullets and guys who stuff their crotch with a sock. I was thinking is this a parody?

Betsy Russell: [Laughs] It probably was and we didn’t even know it.

Jason Bene: Why were all the girls drooling over this guy? There must not be anyone else around.

Betsy Russell: [Laughs] I know. It’s pretty funny. He has a great face but unfortunately he lost his hair.

Jason Bene: Me too. I don’t have any now.

Betsy Russell: But you are not a teen star or whatever.

Jason Bene: The best thing you can do is just shave it all off.

Betsy Russell: Exactly. That look doesn’t look good on everybody though.

Jason Bene: It took my a while to get to the point of taking it all off. One day I saw my hair in the mirror and said it needs to go. A sequel was never made, but you were in an unrelated movie from a different production company called Camp Fear. Was that a psuedo-sequel or was that a stand alone picture?

Betsy Russell: No. I was actually talking about that movie last night. My ex-husband and I got offered the movie thinking nobody will ever see this and it will never even come out on video. We are going to make all of this money in three weeks and move on. I haven’t even seen the movie. I’m sure it’s terrible. I know that the trailer is on You Tube. We had fun making that movie. I’ve never seen it. I’m probably glad I haven’t. My boyfriend at the time starred in that.

Jason Bene: I think Bloody Pom Poms is a more catchy title. Do you know why it went out as Cheerleader Camp?

Betsy Russell: I don’t know.

Killer Film would like to thank Betsy Russell for giving us the chance to turn back time and do a retro flashback on a film from the heyday of the VHS era. It is availale on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Cable television came into my life back in 1982 and a whole new world opened up for me. Its name was ‘ON TV’ and the way it worked was you turned your television to channel three, then you walked up to the box and turned the nob to on. It was primitive and you only got one station. It was here that I lost my cinematic virginity to the likes of Screwballs, My Tutor, and Private School.

This was right before the VHS boom, and studios knew the target audience for the format were men; or in my case, a pre-teen with too much time on his hand. I can’t recall if I saw Private School or Fast Times At Ridgemont High first, but there was a young brunette in both that made every guy’s heart skip a beat - Phoebe Cates.

Something happened along the way. An unknown actress by the name of Betsy Russell stole the show as the hot to trot redhead Jordan Leigh-Jenson. Yes sir, the same Betsy Russell who plays Jigsaw’s ex-wife in the profitable Saw series.

Speaking of Saw, I chatted with Betsy just shortly after she wrapped Saw VII 3D, which will be hitting theaters this October.

Jason Bene: Was acting something you always saw yourself doing as a career?

Betsy Russell: I wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old. I was just doing silly things around the house at the time. I have an autistic sister and my house was kind of chaotic and kind of sad. I was always trying to make my mom laugh so I’d jump around playing all of these different characters. My favorite show was I Love Lucy, and I imitated her all of the time. I think I saw myself on video one time and I was like, ”I look so cute, I want to be an actress.” I started taking theater classes down in San Diego, and I did a lot of plays. I tried to get an agent down there but there just isn’t a lot going on so I was told why don’t you just concentrate on school and to come back when you are sixteen. So I did. I got a Pepsi commercial down in San Diego when I was sixteen. They featured me and it was really fun riding on a horse. I loved all the attention and I felt really comfortable in front of the camera. I thought it was something I had totally forgotten that I wanted to do. I was all set on maybe taking the SAT test and heading off the college, and then I got this commercial and I was like, “Wow, this is exactly what I want to do.” Let me call my cousin who lived in the middle of New York to come live with her. At first she yes, and then she called me back and said, “No, I’m getting engaged, you can’t live with me.” Then I though okay, well, a friend of mind was coming up to L.A. to go to U.C.L.A. maybe I’ll come with her and try to get a roommate closer to home. My dad had a friend [Aaron Russo] who lived here who was a big producer at the time, so he mentored me. That’s how I got Private School.

Jason Bene: How old were you when you nabbed the part of Jordan Leigh-Jenson?

Betsy Russell: Nineteen. I had been here a couple of years and I had been doing small parts. I got my SAG card pretty quick when I did a show called The Powers of Mathew Star. In fact, when I got the show we were supposed to start filming and then Peter got burned and they had to put it on hold for a few months. I was so lucky that when they started production back up when he was healthy, so the casting director, who was a family friend, called me back in. They called me back to audition again and I got my SAG card. I got little parts like T.J. Hooker and Family Ties and little things like that. I remember the audition came up for Private School and my acting teacher said, “If you don’t get this part don’t come back.” So I went and I got it.

Jason Bene: You obviously go all natural for the role. Back then it was a prerequisite for most teen comedies. What were your feelings about doing full nudity?

Betsy Russell: It wasn’t “full”, first of all. I don’t know how that full part got put in there. First of all it wasn’t in the script. That horse scene was not in the script, they added that when I started filming. It’s a story I haven’t had the opportunity to tell very often except to make-up people because I’m bored. The director came to me after the first week of filming with what he thought was a great idea [Horseback scene] because I was coming off sexy and he wanted to push the envelope a little bit. This was before even Bo Derek did it in 10 or anything. And he said we have this idea to yank your top off while you’re riding on a horse. I thought about it and remember thinking that’s not a terrible idea, but I don’t want to have that helmet on while I’m galloping around. I wanted it to be like a beauty shot. I figured it couldn’t be a beauty shot with that ugly helmet on. I said as long as my helmet gets to fly off. I don’t even know how I thought of this at nineteen. As long as my helmet gets to fly off and it’s more like a beauty slow motion natural thing, I said I’ll do it.

I had Phoebe Cates mentoring me. I had lunch with her when I knew I was going to be starring opposite her and she said, “How do you feel about doing nudity?” I said, “I don’t know, I hadn’t really thought much about it.” She said, “Well, don’t worry about it, I had a million nude scenes in Paradise.” She said it is no big deal. When I got the sign off from her, I figured whatever worked for her I would only be so lucky to have it work for me. She was telling me the cutest things. We really became best friends. She was telling me you have to put ice on your boobs, and you got to do this and you got to do that. She said everybody you know that you haven’t seen in years is going to show up on the set that day that you film that. I said, “What are you talking about?” Sure enough managers of restaurants and all of these people were showing up on the set and it was really funny. I didn’t really have a problem with it. I remember thinking this is probably as good as I’m ever going to look and why not have in on film to remember it by. I got offered Playboy at the time also. My grandpa was great friends with Hugh Hefner, and they offered me a very special segment where they were showing five up and coming celebrities - and it was this famous photographer and all this. At the time you really didn’t do Playboy if you were an actress. You were trying to be a serious actress. Of course I thought I was trying to be a serious actress and so I turned down a lot of nudity for nudity’s sake. I really thought that this was that type of movie and it really worked for the movie. I tried to keep it on the up and up in a way. I think I did a good job.

Jason Bene: All these years later and you have someone like me wanting to interview you about it. It left an impression on people.

Betsy Russell: Exactly. As long as they’re talking I guess it cannot be bad.

Jason Bene: The opening of the movie has all the guys doing a ‘peeping tom’ on you which is classic 80′s juevenile fun. Do you recall much about shooting that scene where they come up to your window?

Betsy Russell: I remember our scene in the room and Bubba was right outside the window, so it wasn’t like an epic thing for me. I remembered we had a lot of fun filming it and Mathew Modine really wasn’t thrilled about his part. He seemed like he was way above this type of a movie and he was only doing it to get his feet wet. He really had to go back in that one scene where I keep turning up the heat and making him hot. The first time we shot it he was doing it very realistic. He wasn’t really into the whole slapstick thing. He was much more natural- a serious method actor or whatever. We had to actually go back and re-shoot it. I just remember that more and thinking that just isn’t his thing. He turned out to be a very serious actor and all that, so that’s great. This is a different type of a movie.

Jason Bene: Was it fun to play the bad girl? Was that a stretch for you?

Betsy Russell: [Laughs] Am I bad a girl in real life?

Jason Bene: She’s definitely the…

Betsy Russell: The bitch!

Jason Bene: She gets what she wants so that’s not a bad thing.

Betsy Russell: Well, I think there’s other ways to get what you want and I am not like her anymore. I might have been like her in my past, but know I’ve really come into who I really am. It’s always fun to play a memorable character and it is fun to play the bitch actually.

Jason Bene: Did you get to step outside of who you really are and really play with it?

Betsy Russell: I really never was a bitch. I was really sweet and nice. I was very sensitive. I was always nice to the new people that came to school. I didn’t really have any cliques. Like I said having an autistic sister and coming from that background I just really wasn’t judgemental at all. I always felt like I was being judged. People looking at me like I was from this crazy household or something. So it has always been the easy thing for me to do.

Jason Bene: That probably made you a stronger growing up. It was a humbling experience and taught you not to take things for granted. It matured you past your age.

Betsy Russell: Exactly. It was a great, great experience to get close to this girl [Phoebe Cates] that is such an icon and she was so nice to me and we became such good friends and we still are. Just to be working with her. I think we kind of figured it could be big. After Fast Times at Ridgemont High we thought it could be something great like that. We were just having fun. I was really happy with the role.

Jason Bene: I saw Private School at a fairly young age, so the whole caddyness of girls went right over my head. The film is like Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan, except is steered towards the male audience. It is ahead of its time.

Betsy Russell: Yeah, maybe so. I really thought there would have been a sequel to it. Too bad there wasn’t.

Jason Bene: After the success of Private School you were an instant sex symbol. Was that jarring for you or did you embrace the title?

Betsy Russell: I embraced it. I just wanted to do more good movies. I kept getting these low budget kind of exploitaion movies, which was fine. In retrospect I guess they were good choices but I didn’t have the best management and all that. I wasn’t directed in a great way. I kept working through my twenties, so that was good. I just really wanted to break into some better movies and I had a real hard time doing it. I kept changing my look. Unless you really have somebody guiding you that knows what the heck is going on with your hair and your look and your management. It’s hard to make those decisions on your own when your family doesn’t know a thing about it. I did the best I could and I think it worked out pretty well. I did find myself thinking that everyone was looking at me kind of funny. I stopped wearing sexy clothes. I was wearing loose fitting clothes for a while. I did feel a little funny about it. I didn’t feel like it wasn’t meant to be. I kind of always wanted to become this actress and just work until I died. Then when I stopped to have my kids it was great, but I just didn’t feel complete with my career. I felt there was something missing. I needed to complete that but when I went back and tried to do it on my own it didn’t work. It’s hard to have little kids at home and try to go out and audition and everything. That was tough. It was definitely great timing [with the Saw series] and everything was just perfectly aligned.

Jason Bene: Speaking of changing looks. You dyed your hair black for the movie Tomboy?

Betsy Russell: That was my natural color. They bleached my hair so I wouldn’t look like Phoebe. The director said, “You should keep it this color, you’re going to work a lot more”. I was getting close to so many things, but I wasn’t getting work after three to six months. I was frustrated. I saw Flashdance and I thought I am going back to my natural color. I cut my hair like her and then I got Tomboy. Then I got Avenging Angel. Then I got Cheerleader Camp. I kept getting stuff like that.

Killer Film can’t thank Betsy Russell enough for giving us an EXCLUSIVE interview about a childhood favorite of mine and Donny’s – Private School. Look for another ‘Late Night Classic’ with Betsy real soon!

“While film festivals like Cannes and Sundance provide opportunities for celebrities and Hollywood hotshots to celebrate the art and culture of filmmaking, the American Film Market (AFM), which opens today and runs until Nov. 11 is more like a prolonged power lunch where independent films are critiqued by producers and distributors looking to make bids in hopes of landing a lucrative project.”

Chain Letter: A group of six friends from Carlson High School who receive a mysterious chain letter that moves from their email accounts and text messaging to a creepy little icon that begins haunting their My Space pages.

Who knew they should take the threats of these messages seriously? Or that chain letters can kill?

As the friends battle the curse or a perpetrator targeting them – how can they know for sure??? – friendships are tested once the ominous message begins killing them in the more gruesome ways imaginable, turning one friend against another, with “rules” that seem impossible to escape:

The chain letter must be passed to the person you know best and have seen over the past 24 hours. That person must open the letter. Break the chain and a horrible death awaits you. Beat it and you just might live.

Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?

The Tortured: follows a young mother (Erika Christensen) and her husband (Jesse Metcalf) who decide that the criminal justice system hasn’t adequately punished the man who kidnapped their son. They formulate a diabolical plan to exact their own revenge, and slowly realize that the best way to relieve their pain is to inflict some. How far will they go before “justice is served…?”

Source: Bloody Disgusting

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Saw VI tortures filmgoers on October 23.

Synopsis: “Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.”

Source: Yahoo Movies

Love it or hate it the Saw franchise is one of the most successful the horror genre has ever seen. Will anyone step up this Halloween and knock Jigsaw off his throne? Not likely.

Saw VI hits theaters on October 23.

Source: Arrow in the Head