Saw director quits horror

James Wan, the director who reinvented popular horror with his 'Saw' movies, has said that he is 'finished' with the genre.

Wan also directed the recent 'Insidious', its sequel 'Insidious: Chapter 2' and 'The Conjuring' - which also became a smash hit this summer.

“I'm going to go on record and say I am finished with the horror genre,” he told Moviefone.

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“'Conjuring' and 'Insidious 2' are my two last scary movies... I spent the last ten years of my life doing this. It's time for a change, for goodness sake.

“If you do a successful comedy, then you're known as 'The Comedy Guy'. If you do a successful car chase movie, then you become that guy.

“So I'm a student of cinema, so I just want to make sure I get the chance to make other kinds of films.”

Malaysian-born, Australian-raised Wan burst onto the scene with his short film 'Saw' in 2003, which became the basis for the first feature film in the series the following year.

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It ushered in his sinister creation, Billy the Puppet, the tricycle-riding puppet which is the mouthpiece of Jigsaw, the antagonist in the films.

There are now seven in the series, Wan having produced all of them, and grossing nearly $900 million in total.

He is already branching out into other genres, helming 'Fast & Furious 7', due out next summer.