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Saw is the first installment of the Saw horror film series. Directed by James Wan and written by Wan and Leigh Whannell, Saw was filmed during only eighteen days of production. It was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2004 and saw international release later that year on October 29. Saw is essentially an expansion of Wan and Whannel's 2003 short film of the same name. Promotional poster for Saw, deemed This work is copyrighted. ...
James Wan (born 1977) is an Australian film director from Perth. ...
Gregg Hoffman (June 11, 1963 – December 4, 2005) born in Phoenix, Arizona, was a movie producer responsible for developing the hit movies Saw and Saw II. He was working on Saw III and other films for Twisted Pictures when he died in a hospital in Hollywood, California of natural causes...
James Wan (born 1977) is an Australian film director from Perth. ...
Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ...
Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
Danny Lebern Glover( Glover pronounced with a long O)[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ...
Monica Potter (born June 30, 1971) is an American film and television actress. ...
Michael Emerson (b. ...
Tobin Bell (born August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor. ...
Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician whose activities include playing keyboard and drums, music programming, engineering, and mixing. ...
Fear Factory is a Los Angeles, California based metal band. ...
Front Line Assembly (sometimes written as Frontline Assembly, also known by the acronym FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. ...
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Saw II is a 2005 horror film. ...
The Saw film series is a horror/thriller film franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, beginning in 2004 and continuing to the present and into the future. ...
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James Wan (born 1977) is an Australian film director from Perth. ...
Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the state of Utah in the United States. ...
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ...
is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Saw is a nine-and-a-half-minute short film by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. ...
The film's story revolves around two men who are kidnapped, locked in an industrial bathroom and given instructions related to escaping. Meanwhile, police detectives investigate and attempt to apprehend the criminal responsible, the "Jigsaw Killer". The Jigsaw Killer is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Originally rated NC-17 for strong, graphic violence, the film was slightly edited to achieve an R rating. The unrated version is available as the Saw: Uncut Edition, a DVD special edition that was released around the same time that Saw II was released theatrically. The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...
Saw II is a 2005 horror film. ...
Plot
Saw opens in an industrial washroom, where photographer Adam Faulkner (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) are chained by their ankles to pipes at opposite corners. Between them is a corpse (Tobin Bell) holding a revolver and a microcassette. Lawrence and Adam discover tapes in turn saying 'play me'. From the microcassette, Adam is told he must only escape the bathroom, while Lawrence is told that he must kill Adam before six o'clock, or he, his wife, and his daughter will be killed in turn. Hacksaws are soon discovered; neither is sufficiently sharp to cut through their chains, and Adam throws his away in agitated frustration. Lawrence realizes that the saws are not meant for the chains, instead for their feet. Image File history File links AdamSawLawrence. ...
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Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
Adam Faulkner was a fictional character from the Saw film series, portrayed by Saw writer and co-creator Leigh Whannell. ...
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
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Adam Faulkner was a fictional character from the Saw film series, portrayed by Saw writer and co-creator Leigh Whannell. ...
Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ...
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Tobin Bell (born August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor. ...
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Lawrence determines that their captor is the Jigsaw Killer, named due to his practice of cutting pieces of skin in the shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece from his victims, though Lawrence comments that the name is a misnomer, as he never directly murders anyone and his intentions are for his victims to survive with a better appreciation of life. A series of flashbacks of his previous victims is presented, including his only known survivor, a highly traumatized heroin addict named Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith), who believes that her experience in the test has made her a better person in the end. For the Rolling Stones song, see Jigsaw Puzzle A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. ...
In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. ...
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Amanda Young is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
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One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
As Adam and Lawrence search for alternative escape routes, Zep Hindle (Michael Emerson) breaks into the Gordon house and captures Lawrence's wife, Alison (Monica Potter), and daughter, Diana (Makenzie Vega)in order to save himself from a deadly poison. Through flashback, we learn that Zep is an orderly at Lawrence's hospital who witnessed Lawrence coldly informing an elderly patient, John Kramer, that he had terminal brain cancer. (We also recognize John as the corpse in the bathroom.) While psychologically toying with Alison and Diana, Zep monitors Adam and Lawrence through video surveillance. The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Michael Emerson (b. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Monica Potter (born June 30, 1971) is an American film and television actress. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Makenzie Jade Vega (born on February 10, 1994) is an American actress. ...
Jigsaw is a fictional serial killer within the Saw universe. ...
Simultaneously, the house is being observed by Detective David Tapp (Danny Glover). Tapp grew unhealthily obsessed with the Jigsaw case after hearing Amanda's testimony, and, following a lead, he and his partner, Steven Sing (Ken Leung), illegally broke into a warehouse that turned out to be one of Jigsaw's lairs, where they saved a man from being killed by drills. Before they could secure Jigsaw's arrest, however, Sing was gunned down by a booby trap, and Jigsaw escaped. Tapp was later disbarred from the police force, and is now stalking Lawrence, convinced from planted evidence that he is the Jigsaw Killer. The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Danny Lebern Glover( Glover pronounced with a long O)[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Ken Leung (born January 21, 1970) is an American actor. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
Meanwhile, in the bathroom, the two men stage Adam's murder for the cameras that are watching them, but a strong electric shock is sent through his chains, foiling the ruse. Lawrence later finds a cell phone that can only receive calls. Following these events, Adam and Lawrence recall their abductions; they were both ambushed and knocked unconscious by a stranger wearing a pig mask. The phone then receives a call from Alison, who warns Lawrence that Adam knows more than he is telling. Adam explains that he had been paid by Tapp to trail and photograph Lawrence and shows him a pile of photographs that he found with the hacksaws. Lawrence begins to berate Adam, but grows defensive when Adam shows Lawrence evidence that he has been cheating on his wife. The two begin arguing, but are distracted when Lawrence notices a picture of Zep in his house. They deduce that Zep is their abductor. Just as this realization is made, however, Adam points out that it is six o'clock, the deadline. Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ...
Allison frees herself from Zep, and a struggle ensues. Gunshots are fired, which attract the attention of Tapp, who distracts Zep long enough for Alison and her daughter to flee. Zep shoots Tapp fatally and races to the sewers, intent on killing Lawrence, who is only aware of the sounds of gunfire and screaming. Flung into desperation, he uses his hacksaw to cut off his foot and shoots Adam with John's revolver. Zep arrives to find Lawrence in tears. Before Zep can kill him, however, Adam springs from the floor, as his wound was in fact nonfatal, and beats Zep to death with a toilet tank cover as Lawrence slowly crawls away, promising to get help and return for Adam. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 350 × 230 pixelsFull resolution (350 × 230 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: A screenshot from Saw. ...
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Tobin Bell (born August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Adam searches Zep's body for a key, but finds another microcassette player. As the series theme, "Hello Zepp", begins to play, Adam learns that Zep was only a pawn in Jigsaw's game who acted under threat of death. He then hears a moan behind him and turns to see John slowly rising to his feet. John tells Adam that the key to the chains had been in the bathtub in which Adam had awakened when the movie began. The key went down the drain along with the bathwater when Adam, in his frantic thrashing, unplugged the stopper. Adam reaches for Zep's handgun, but John stuns him with another remote-controlled electrical current. John flicks off the lights and muses, "Game over!" before slamming the door, sealing Adam in the bathroom as he screams in despair over the credits. Hello Zepp was a song composed by Charlie Clouser for the original Saw film, but was re-used heavily throughout the following films in the Saw trilogy, usually played when revealing a major plot twist. ...
Cast Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Leigh Whannell (born January 17, 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, perhaps most famous for his work on the Saw film series. ...
Adam Faulkner was a fictional character from the Saw film series, portrayed by Saw writer and co-creator Leigh Whannell. ...
Danny Lebern Glover( Glover pronounced with a long O)[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Monica Potter (born June 30, 1971) is an American film and television actress. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Michael Emerson (b. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Ken Leung (born January 21, 1970) is an American actor. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Makenzie Jade Vega (born on February 10, 1994) is an American actress. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Tobin Bell (born August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor. ...
Jigsaw is a fictional serial killer within the Saw universe. ...
The Jigsaw Killer is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Shawnee Smith (b. ...
Amanda Young is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Dina Meyer (born December 22, 1968) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Starship Troopers and the Saw films. ...
Allison Kerry is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Alexandra Chun (born Bok Yun Chun) is an actress and filmmaker of Korean ancestry living in Los Angeles. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
Benito Martinez as David Acevada in The Shield Benito Martinez is an actor from Guatemala, best known as police captain (later city councilman) David Aceveda in FX Networks acclaimed crime drama The Shield. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. ...
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Reception Saw was a financial success. Shot on a meager budget of about US$1.2 million, it earned over $55 million at the box office in the U.S. alone and $102,917,772 worldwide.[1] Critical responses were mixed. It earned a 45% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, and a 29% rating from the most esteemed professional critics, qualifying it as "rotten." Most reviewers were dissatisfied with the acting and dialogue and noted the problematic story structure and twist ending. Critics who enjoyed the film, however, cited the finale as a redemptive strong point. [2] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
A twist ending or surprise ending is an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, and which often contains irony or causes the audience to reevaluate the narrative or characters. ...
Impact With the emergence of the torture porn genre in the 2000s, the Saw film series, along with similar films such as Hostel and The Devil's Rejects, is frequently singled out as an example of the prevalence of exploitive graphic violence and gore in horror films, though Saw has a significantly less amount of gore.[citation needed] Poster art for Blood Feast (1963) A splatter film or gore film is a type of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. ...
Hostel is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Eli Roth, starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Jennifer Lim, Eythor Gudjonsson and Barbara Nedeljáková. The movie is rated R in the United States for its scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language, and drug use. ...
The Devils Rejects is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie. ...
Saw occupies the third slot on Bravo's Even Scarier Movie Moments for the scene in Lawrence cuts off his own foot. [3] This scene, Amanda's test and the razor wire maze scene were grouped among the scariest film scenes of all time on FilmSite. [4] This article is about the U.S. cable network. ...
One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
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Soundtrack - Main Article: Saw (soundtrack)
Megadeth's song "Die Dead Enough" was originally set to be featured in the movie,[5] but was not used for undisclosed reasons.[6] Soundtrack for the film, Saw. ...
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band led by founder, frontman, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ...
Uncut Edition The uncut edition of the film is approximately eight seconds longer than the theatrical version. The additional footage includes: - An extra closeup shot of the body on the floor, which shows the extent of the "gunshot wound" on the back of the head.
- A few extra seconds of Paul crawling through the razor wire.
- A few extra shots of Amanda sifting through the intestines and stomach of the unnamed man she kills.
- And an extra shot of Lawrence sawing into his foot, which shows more blood.
However, in addition to the new footage, the dialogue between Lawrence and Adam in the end, just before Lawrence leaves, has been shortened.
There is also an Easter egg on the uncut DVD titled "See Saw in 60," which consists of three jumpy and humorous one-minute condensed versions of the film. Two are presented using dolls with crude faces drawn on them; sound clips from the movie are used for one, high-pitched squeaky voices for the other. The third is made using actual footage from the movie and the squeaky voices. Similar Easter eggs were used on later uncut releases of the sequels. A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...
See also Saw is a nine-and-a-half-minute short film by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. ...
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ...
Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ...
A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ...
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The Saw film series is a horror/thriller film franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, beginning in 2004 and continuing to the present and into the future. ...
Saw is a nine-and-a-half-minute short film by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. ...
Saw II is a 2005 horror film. ...
Saw III is the third installment in the Saw series. ...
Saw IV is the fourth installment in the Saw series. ...
Saw IV is the fourth installment in the Saw series. ...
The Jigsaw Killer is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Amanda Young is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
The Gordon family was a family that appeared in the first installment of the Saw film series. ...
Adam Faulkner was a fictional character from the Saw film series, portrayed by Saw writer and co-creator Leigh Whannell. ...
Allison Kerry is a fictional character in the Saw film series. ...
Eric Matthews was a fictional character from the Saw series, with the first appearance in Saw II. He was portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg. ...
The Reinhart family was a family that appeared in the Saw series, in particular, Saw III. The family consisted of Jeff, his wife Lynn, and their children Corbett and Dylan. ...
Lieutenant Rigg is a character from the Saw film series, first appearing in Saw II. He was portrayed by Lyriq Bent. ...
Soundtrack for the film, Saw. ...
Saw II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the film, Saw II. It was released on October 25, 2005 by Treadstone Records (US) and Trisol Records (UK). ...
Soundtrack for the film, Saw III. The album is due to be released October 24, 2006. ...
Saw IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the film Saw IV. It will be released on October 23, 2007 by Adrenaline Music. ...
One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps, more commonly referred to as games and tests, that the characters Jigsaw and his apprentices Amanda and Hoffman created for their victims. ...
Billy is a puppet that has appeared in the Saw films. ...
The pig mask is a prop used throughout the Saw film series by numerous characters, although most commonly used by the Jigsaw Killer and his apprentices. ...
Hello Zepp was a song composed by Charlie Clouser for the original Saw film, but was re-used heavily throughout the following films in the Saw trilogy, usually played when revealing a major plot twist. ...
The Saw film series is a horror/thriller film franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, beginning in 2004 and continuing to the present and into the future. ...
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