Saw II

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Saw II
SawIIposter2.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Produced by Gregg Hoffman
Mark Burg
Oren Koules
Screenplay by Darren Lynn Bousman
Leigh Whannell
Starring Donnie Wahlberg
Franky G
Glenn Plummer
Beverley Mitchell
Dina Meyer
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Erik Knudsen
Shawnee Smith
Tobin Bell
Music by Charlie Clouser
Cinematography David A. Armstrong
Editing by Kevin Greutert
Studio Twisted Pictures
Distributed by Lionsgate
Release date(s)
  • October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28)
Running time 91 minutes
Country Canada
United States
Language English
Budget US$4 million
Box office US$147.7 million

Saw II is a 2005 Canadian-American[1] horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and co-written by Bousman and the first film's co-writer Leigh Whannell. It is a sequel to 2004's Saw and the second installment in the seven-part Saw film series. It stars Donnie Wahlberg, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Beverly Mitchell, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Erik Knudsen, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell. Smith, Bell and Meyer are the only actors to reprise their roles from the first film.

The film features Jigsaw being apprehended by the police, but trapping the arresting officer in one of his own games while showing another "game" of eight people — including the officer's son — in progress on TV monitors at another location. It also explores some of Jigsaw's backstory, providing a partial explanation of his reason for becoming Jigsaw.

After the financial success of Saw, a sequel was immediately green-lit. Leigh Whannell and James Wan were busy preparing for their next film and were unable to write or direct. Bousman wrote a script called "The Desperate" before Saw was released and was looking for a producer but many studios rejected it. Hoffman received the script and showed it to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules. It was decided that, with some changes, it could be made into Saw II. Whannell became available to provide re-writes of the script. The film was given a larger budget and was shot from May to June 2005 in Toronto.

Saw II was released on October 28, 2005 and, despite negative reviews from critics, was a financial success, with opening takings of $31.9 million and grossing $88 million in the United States and Canada. It has remained the highest grossing Saw film in those countries. Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for his role as Jigsaw in the film. Saw II was released to DVD on February 14, 2006 and topped charts its first week, selling more than 3 million units. At the time, it was the fastest-selling theatrical DVD in Lionsgate's history.

Contents

Plot[edit]

Informant Michael (Noam Jenkins) awakens to find two halves of a spike-filled mask locked around his neck. A videotape states that he has one minute to extract the key from behind his right eye with a scalpel, but he fails and is killed when the mask closes around his head. Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to the scene by Detective Kerry (Dina Meyer) after a message for him is found, and she uses the mask to lead him and a SWAT team to an abandoned steel factory. They find John Kramer (Tobin Bell), the cancer-weakened Jigsaw Killer, as well as computer monitors showing eight people, including Daniel (Erik Knudsen), Eric's son, and Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the only known survivor of John's games. They are trapped inside a house and have two hours before a nerve agent filling the house kills them, but John assures Eric that he will find his son in a "safe, secure state" if he talks alone with John, and Eric reluctantly agrees in order to buy time for the tech team to track the signal.

The eight victims - Daniel, Amanda, Gus (Tony Nappo), Obi (Tim Burd), Jonas (Glenn Plummer), Xavier (Franky G.), Laura (Beverley Mitchell), and Addison (Emmanuelle Vaugier) - are told by tape recorder that antidotes have been placed around the house to save them from the gas, and that one of them is in the safe with them, the combination to which is "at the back of their minds" and can be determined by "following the rainbow". Xavier and Gus inspect the door, and Gus is killed when a gun fires through the peephole. They reach the basement, where a tape left for Obi reveals that he helped with the kidnappings, proved when Laura realizes he kidnapped her. He tries to retrieve two of the antidotes from the furnace, but he accidentally turns it on and is unable to escape before he is burned alive. After Daniel learns from Amanda that she was previously tested, Jonas leads them to an upstairs room that Xavier manages to break into, which houses another antidote behind a steel door, and a pit filled with hypodermic needles which contains the key. The test is meant for Xavier, but he instead throws Amanda into the pit; though she finds the key, Xavier fails to unlock the door in time and abandons the group out of frustration.

In the factory, John infuriates Eric with idle conversation and cryptic words, eventually revealing his backstory: after learning of his cancer, John tried to commit suicide by driving off a cliff, but survived the crash despite his injuries and decided to spend the rest of his life testing others. The tech team arrives, and John reveals through provided files that the other seven victims are criminals who Eric himself had framed for various crimes, and that Daniel will be in danger if they discover his identity. At Kerry's suggestion, Eric destroys many of John's documents, in the hopes of angering him to the point of surrender, though he doesn't appear to care.

Xavier returns to the first room, where he discovers a colored number on Gus's neck and realizes that everyone in the house has a piece of the safe's combination. Now desperate to get the antidote, he kills Jonas in a fight and begins hunting the others. Laura succumbs to the nerve agent, and Amanda and Addison abandon Daniel after learning his identity, but Amanda returns immediately after finding Jonas's body. Addison finds a room with an antidote in a glass box, but her arms become trapped in the razor blade-lined sockets, and Xavier leaves her to die after reading her number. Amanda and Daniel return to the first room and find a tunnel that eventually leads them to the bathroom from the first film, which houses Dr. Lawrence Gordon's severed foot and the corpses of Adam and Zep. Daniel collapses moments before Xavier finds them. Amanda points out that Xavier cannot read his own number, and he cuts the skin from his neck to read it. He then moves to kill them but is killed first when Daniel, who feigned collapse, slashes his neck with Lawrence's hacksaw.

Having seen Xavier chasing Daniel, Eric assaults John and forces him to lead the way to the house at gunpoint. The area they were sitting in is revealed to be a lift, which they use to leave the factory. The SWAT team simultaneously infiltrate a similar house using the video feed's signal, finding only VCRs playing previously-recorded images, revealing that the gas house tests took place before they found John. The factory's timer expires and opens a large safe which contains Daniel bound and wearing an oxygen mask, which matches John's cryptic clue. Unaware of any of this, Eric leaves John outside and locates the bathroom, where he is attacked by a pig-masked figure. He awakens to find himself shackled at the ankle to the pipes, and a tape recorder left by Amanda reveals that she is John's protégé. She appears in the doorway and seals the door to the bathroom, leaving Eric to die. Outside, John hears his screams and slowly forms a gleeful smile.

Production[edit]

Development and writing[edit]

The original teaser poster showing two bloody severed fingers that was banned by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Saw II was immediately green-lit after 2004's Saw successful opening weekend.[2] Producers needed a script for a sequel [3] but James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the director and writer of Saw, were working on Universal Pictures's Dead Silence. Music video director Darren Lynn Bousman had just completed a script for his first film The Desperate, and was trying to sell it to studios but was getting reactions that the script was very similar to Saw. A German studio eventually approached him with an offer to produce the film for $1 million. Just as they were looking for a cinematographer, the American cinematographer David A. Armstrong, who had worked on Saw, arrived on the scene and suggested showing the script to Saw producer Gregg Hoffman.[4] Hoffman read the script and called Bousman wanting to produce "The Desperate". After Hoffman showed the script to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules,[5] the two decided that "The Desperate" was the starting script they needed for Saw II and two months later, Bousman was flown to Toronto to direct.[5]

Whannell polished the script, with input from Wan,[6] in order to bring it into the Saw universe,[3] but kept the characters, traps and deaths from "The Desperate" script.[7] Bousman said, "But you could read the script for "The Desperate" and watch Saw II, and you would not be able to draw a comparison".[4] Wan and Whannell also served as executive producers. All the previous film's crew members returned: editor Kevin Greutert, cinematographer Armstrong, and composer Charlie Clouser. This was to be Hoffman's last film. He died unexpectedly on December 4, 2005.[8]

Only those key cast- and crew-members who were involved in the film's ending were given the full script; the rest received only the first 88 pages. If a particular page was rewritten, the old page was shredded. Members were also required to sign confidentiality agreements requiring them not to release any plot details.[9] Reportedly, "four or five" alternate endings were shot in order to keep the ending a surprise.[6] Bousman gave the actors freedom to change dialogue in the script. He said that 95% of the time the actors went by the script, with about 5% being adlibs, which he said "made all of the difference in the world".[10] Hoffman said in an interview with Fangoria that they listened to fans' suggestions. For instance, instead of only showing the aftermath of a character violently dying in a flashback, they would allow it to unfold as it happened. This was in contrast to Saw, in which most of the violence was implied off-screen.[11]

Filming and post-production[edit]

Saw II was given a larger production budget of $4 million,[12] compared to Saw's budget of a little over $1 million.[13] The marketing budget was an additional $2 million.[14] The first shot, which involved shooting police cars and a SWAT van driving around the industrial docklands outside the soundstage,[15] was filmed on April 29, 2005 in Toronto. After two months of pre-production,[7] principal photography took place over 25 days at Toronto's Cinespace Film Studios from May 2, 2005 to June 6, 2005.[15][16][17] The ending was filmed on May 25 and 26.[18] The music and sound was recorded in July and Saw II was locked on July 16. It was completely finished by September 9.[17] Visual effects were performed by C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures and post-production services were provided by Deluxe.[6]

Trap designs[edit]

David Hackl, the film's production designer, took three weeks to construct 27 sets on a single sound stage.[6] The puppet Billy, used in the series to give instructions to Jigsaw's victims, was originally created by Wan out of paper towel rolls and papier-mâché. Given the larger budget for the sequel, Billy was upgraded with remote-controlled eyes and a servo-driven mouth.[19] In one trap, "The Needle Room", Smith's character Amanda is thrown into a pit of needles to find a key. In order for this to be done safely, four people, over a period of four days, removed the needle tips from syringes and replaced them with fiber optic tips. They modified a total of 120,000 fake needles. However, this number was insufficient and the pit had to be filled with styrofoam and other materials to make it appear to have more needles. The needles that were apparently stuck into Smith were actually blunted syringes stuck into padding under her clothing. For certain shots, a fake arm was used.[20]

Saw II was Bousman's first feature film.

Bousman came up with an idea whereby a character's hands would get stuck in some sort of vessel and this resulted in the "Hand Trap". It proved to be a challenge but after much discussion, Hackl, property master Jim Murray and art director Michele Brady came up with a suitable design. They arranged a glass box suspended by chains from the ceiling which contained a hypodermic needle with the antidote and which had two hand-holes on the underside. As soon as Vaugier's character Addison put her hands into the holes razor blades would close in on her hands and any attempt to withdraw from the trap would cause her to bleed to death. In order for the trap to be used safely, the prop builders made the handcuffs move inside the box and fake blades that would retract from the actress's hands, thus allowing her to slide her hands out. Hackl subsequently commented that the character did not have to put her hands into the trap as there was a lock with a key on the other side box that would have opened the contraption.[21][22]

The original idea for the "Furnace Trap" came from the house having been a crematorium at some point, but this would have involved turning the house into a funeral parlor, so it was instead decided that the furnace would be part of the house's boiler system. The furnace was visualised in the form of a computer model so that Bousman could better understand how shots could be filmed. Using the computer model as a guide, the furnace was constructed in three days using cement board and tin with removable sides and top so Timothy Burd (Obi) could be filmed crawling inside. The furnace produced real flames and, in place of Burd, a stunt man using a fire-retardant gel crawled into the fire.[23]

Release[edit]

Saw II was released in New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom on October 28, 2005; and November 17, 2005 in Australia. The original teaser poster showing two bloody, severed fingers was rejected by the Motion Picture Association of America.[24] Since the poster was already released and managed to "slip by" the MPAA, they issued a release stating the poster was not approved and was unacceptable; Lionsgate removed the poster from their websites.[25] The image was used instead for the film's soundtrack cover.[26] Lionsgate held the second annual "Give Til It Hurts" blood drive for the Red Cross and collected 10,154 pints of blood.[27][28]

Soundtrack[edit]

Further information: Saw II (score)
Saw II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released October 25, 2005
Genre Industrial metal, heavy metal, alternative metal
Length 54:46
Label Image Entertainment
Various Artists chronology
Saw: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; (2004) Saw II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; (2005) Saw III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ; (2006)

The Saw II soundtrack was released on October 25, 2005 by Image Entertainment.[26] The video for "Forget to Remember" was also directed by Bousman.[29]

Track listing

Home media[edit]

Saw II was released on DVD, VHS and Universal Media Disc on February 14, 2006 through Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The DVD debuted as number one selling 2.5 million units in its first day. It went on to sell 3.9 million units its first week, becoming the fastest selling theatrical DVD in Lionsgate's history.[30] On October 24, 2006, an Unrated Special Edition was released, while an Unrated Blu-ray edition was also released with various special features on January 23, 2007.[31][32]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Saw II opened with $31.7 million on 3,879 screens across 2,949 theaters.[33] The three-day Halloween opening weekend set a Lionsgate record. It became at the time, the widest release for Lionsgate and one of the best opening weekends for a horror sequel.[34] For its second weekend it fell 47% making $16.9 million.[35] The film was closed out of theaters on January 5, 2006 after 70 days of release.

Saw II opened in the United Kingdom with $3.8 million on 305 screens, 70% larger than the first instalment. It opened in Japan on 67 screens with $750,000.[36] Opening to $1.3 million on 173 screens it was the number one film in Australia.[37] The film grossed $87 million in the United States and Canada and $60.7 million in other markets for a worldwide total of $147.7 million.[38] The film is the highest-grossing film of the Saw series and Lionsgate's fourth highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada.[39][40] According to CinemaScore polls, 53% of the audience were males under 25 years of age. The poll also indicated that 65% of the audience were familiar with the first film.[41]

Release date
(United States)		 Budget
(estimated)[38]		 Box office revenue[38]
United States/Canada Other markets Worldwide
October 28, 2005 $4,000,000 $87,039,965 $60,708,540 $147,748,505

Critical reviews[edit]

The film received generally mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 35% of 116 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.6 out of 10. The site's consensus was, "Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise".[42] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 40 based on 28 reviews.[43]

Robert Koehler of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying "cooking up new Rube Goldberg torture contraptions isn't enough to get Saw II out of the shadow of its unnerving predecessor".[44] Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B minus, saying "Saw II is just barely a better B flick than Saw" and that both films are "more clever and revolting than they are actually chilling". He praised Bell's performance as Jigsaw, saying "As the droopy-lidded maniac in the flesh, Tobin Bell is, for all the film's gewgaws, Saw II's sturdiest horror, a Terence Stamp look-alike who calls to mind a seedy General Zod lazily overseeing the universe from his evildoer's lair". He ended his review: "Where Saw II lags behind in Saw's novelty, it takes the lead with its smoother landing, which is again primed to blow the movie wide open, but manages a more compelling job of it than the original's cheat finish".[45]

Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, calling Saw II a "worthy follow-up to its grisly predecessor". He said the story was "much more focused on an endgame than the original film. There are fewer credibility gaps and there are plenty of reversals to satisfy fans". He criticized the use of numerous flashbacks, saying that it "rob[s] us of the pleasure of actually remembering for ourselves".[46] Laura Kern, writing for The New York Times, gave it a mixed review, saying that Bousman "delivers similar hard-core, practically humorless frights and hair-raising tension, but only after getting past a shaky beginning that plays more like a forensics-themed television show than a scary movie" and called Greutert's editing "crafty". She called the sequel "more trick than treat" and that it "doesn't really compare to its fine predecessor - though it still manages to be eye-opening (and sometimes positively nauseating) in itself".[47] Empire's Kim Newman gave the film three out of five stars. He said that the film improves upon Saw's "perverse fascination with Seven-style murders and brutally violent puzzles" and that Jigsaw's intellectual games make "Hannibal Lecter look like the compiler of The Sun's quick crossword". He ended his reviews saying, "Morally dubious it may be, but this gory melange of torture, terror and darkly humorous depravity appeals to the sick puppy within us all".[48]

Accolades[edit]

Tobin Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for his role as Jigsaw,[49] though the award went to Hayden Christensen for his role in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.[50]

Award Category Recipient(s) Result
Directors Guild of Canada Outstanding Sound Editing - Feature Film Rob Bertola; Tom Bjelic; Allan Fung; Mark Gingras; John Laing; Paul Shikata; John Douglas Smith Nominated
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Villain Tobin Bell Won
MTV Movie Awards Best Villain Tobin Bell Nominated
Saturn Award Best DVD Special Edition Release — Nominated
Best Horror Film — Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Movie - Choice Scream Donnie Wahlberg Nominated
Movie - Choice Thriller — Nominated

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