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Saw franchise
File:Saw movie logo.gif
Created byJames Wan
Leigh Whannell
Original work"Saw" (short film)
Print publications
ComicsSaw: Rebirth
Films and television
Film(s)Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Saw VI
Saw 3D
Television seriesScream Queens
Games
Video game(s)Saw: The Video Game
Saw II: Flesh & Blood
Audio
Soundtrack(s)Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV (score)
Saw V
Saw VI
Original music"Hello Zepp"
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)Billy the Puppet
Various Jigsaw figures
Amusement ParkSaw: The Ride
"Saw: Game Over"
"SAW Alive"
CostumesPig masks
Jigsaw costumes
Billy masks and costumes

Saw is a horror franchise distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment that consists of six films (as of 2010). A seventh film shot in 3D is scheduled for release on October 29, 2010 and is anticipated as the last Saw film. The franchise began with the 2003 short film which was created by Australian director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell to pitch as a potential feature film. This was successfully done in 2004 with the release of first feature film at the Sundance Film Festival. It was released theatrically the following October. The sequels were directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, David Hackl and Kevin Greutert and were written by Whannel, Bousman, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, and have been released subsequently every October, on the Friday before Halloween. The creators still remain with the franchise as executive producers.

The franchise revolves around the fictional character of John Kramer, also called the "Jigsaw Killer" or simply "Jigsaw." He was introduced briefly in Saw and developed in more detail in Saw II. Rather than killing his victims outright, Jigsaw traps them in situations that he calls "tests" or "games," to test their will to live through physical or psychological torture. Despite the fact that Kramer was murdered in Saw III, the films continue to focus on the posthumous effects of the Jigsaw Killer and his apprentices by exploring his character via flashbacks.

The film series as a whole has received mixed to negative reviews by critics, but has been a financial success at the box office. While the films are often compared to Hostel and classified as torture porn by the media, the creators of Saw disagree with the term "torture porn".[1] Writer Luke Y. Thompson of OC Weekly argued that unlike Hostel, the Saw films actually have less torture than most in the sense of sadism or masochism, as most "torture" is self-inflicted by the characters (and sometimes inevitable).[2]

Overview

Flashbacks from Saw IV reveal the roots of the series, presenting John Kramer as a successful civil engineer and devoted husband to his wife Jill Tuck, who opened a rehab clinic for drug addicts. Jill lost her unborn baby, Gideon, due to the unwitting actions of a drug addict named Cecil, who fled the scene. Saw VI later showed that another drug addict, Amanda Young, also had an unintentional role in the death of Gideon. John grieved over the loss of his child, and distanced himself from his friends and his wife.

In the comic book Saw: Rebirth, John and Jill eventually drifted apart and divorced. After this turn of events, John found himself trapped by his own complacency, until he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Extremely bitter over his squandered life, John began observing the lives of others and became even more depressed as he saw those around him squandering the gift of life that he had just been denied. Flashbacks from Saw II show that, after surviving a suicide attempt where he drove his car off a cliff, John was "reborn", and nurtured the idea that the only way for someone to change is for them to change themselves. Then, in Saw IV flashbacks, he designed a test for Cecil and decided to use the rest of his existence to design more of these "tests" as a form of "instant rehabilitation" that would change the world "one person at a time". Kramer was soon given the name "Jigsaw Killer" (or "Jigsaw"), because he removed a puzzle-piece-shaped chunk of flesh from those who did not escape his traps. Kramer himself stated that this name was given to him by the media, and that the cut piece of flesh was meant to represent that these victims were each missing something - what he called the "survival instinct".

Few of Jigsaw's victims are able to survive his brutal mechanical traps, which are often ironically symbolic representations of the problems in the victim's life and require them to undergo severe physical or psychological torture to escape.

In Saw V, Lieutenant Mark Hoffman's ties with John are revealed in a series of flashbacks during the film. Hoffman's sister is murdered by her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. Seth is arrested; however, a technicality allowed him to be released, and Hoffman, feeling Seth had not served the full capacity of his sentence, kills him in an inescapable trap designed to look like one of Jigsaw's, laying the blame on him. Jigsaw then kidnaps Hoffman and blackmails him into becoming his apprentice in his "rehabilitation" methods, though eventually Hoffman would become a willing apprentice, helping set up Kramer's tests from almost the beginning, starting with Paul’s trap.

The first surviving victim, Amanda Young, views Jigsaw as a hero who ultimately changed her life for the better. Amanda, upon Jigsaw's request, agrees to become his protégé.

In Saw, Jigsaw has chained the man who diagnosed his cancer, Dr. Lawrence Gordon, in a dilapidated industrial washroom with Adam Stanheight, a photographer who has been tailing the doctor due to a former police detective's suspicions that Gordon is Jigsaw. Lawrence has instructions to kill Adam by 6 o'clock, or else his wife and daughter will be killed. Flashbacks show detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing, who suspect Lawrence of being Jigsaw, following a trail of clues from other Jigsaw traps. Sing's death from a shotgun trap after saving a victim named Jeff causes Tapp to obsess over catching Jigsaw. Later on, he chases Zep Hindle, who monitors Adam and Lawrence's tests, and gets shot in the chest. Eventually, Lawrence saws his own foot off in order to escape, leaving Adam in the bathroom while Lawrence goes to try to save his family and get help for Adam. Flashbacks from Saw III show that Amanda kidnapped Adam and later returned to suffocate him as an act of "mercy killing"; it would be the first time she deliberately intervened during a test and killed someone.

In Saw: The Video Game, Jigsaw nurses Detective Tapp back to health and places him in an asylum where he has to save six people. This includes Amanda, a CSI named Jennings Foster, Steven Sing's wife Melissa, a reporter named Oswald McGullicuty, an arsonist named Obi Tate, and Jeff the victim who Tapp and Sing saved. Throughout the game, Tapp is followed by a masked figure known as Pighead, who is eventually killed by him. At the end of the game, Tapp can either take the Truth or the Freedom door. The Truth door makes Tapp follow a hooded person who he believes is Jigsaw, this is revealed as Melissa Sing, Steven Sing's wife. She then meets the same end her husband did; a shotgun/door trap. Tapp then becomes insane and is then admitted into an asylum where he lives the rest of his life as if he was still inside one of Jigsaw's traps. The Freedom door; Tapp and the other victims escape with their lives but Tapp becomes fixed upon finding Jigsaw, he then commits suicide due to depression.

Saw II begins with the police tracking a severely weakened Jigsaw to his latest lair. However, another test is in place, as he and Amanda have kidnapped the son of Detective Eric Matthews and trapped him and a group of seven convicts, previously framed by Matthews, in a house that is slowly being filled with sarin gas, with Amanda Young among them. He will trade Daniel Matthews' life for Detective Matthews' time, conversing with him until the game is concluded. Matthews loses his patience and assaults Jigsaw, forcing Jigsaw to take him to the house, only to discover that the video feed from inside the house had been pre-recorded, the events actually taking place much earlier; Matthews' son was locked in a safe in Jigsaw's warehouse, being kept alive with an oxygen tank. Matthews is knocked unconscious by a masked figure and wakes up imprisoned in the bathroom from Saw, which is part of the foundation of the house. Amanda reveals herself to Eric as Jigsaw's protégé before leaving him to die. In a flashback from Saw III, Matthews manages to escape the bathroom by breaking his foot. He confronts and beats Amanda, demanding to know where his son is. Amanda fights him off and leaves him for dead. A flashback from Saw IV shows an unknown figure later dragging Eric to a prison cell, keeping him for a future game.

The events of Saw III and IV occur concurrently. Saw III begins with Jigsaw, weakened and near death, confined to a makeshift hospital bed. Amanda has taken over his work, designing traps of her own; however, these traps are inescapable, as Amanda is convinced that Jigsaw's traps have no effect and that people don't change. A kidnapped doctor is forced to keep Jigsaw alive while another test is performed on Jeff, a man obsessed with vengeance against the drunk driver who killed his son. Jigsaw, unwilling to allow "a murderer" to continue his legacy, designs a test for Amanda as well; she ultimately fails, and it results in the deaths of both Jigsaw and Amanda. Saw IV, meanwhile, revolves around tests meant for Officer Rigg, which are overseen by Hoffman. Rigg fails his test, resulting in the death of Eric Matthews. Rigg is left to bleed to death by Hoffman, who later discovers the bodies of Jigsaw and Amanda. When an autopsy is performed on Jigsaw, a cassette tape coated in wax is found in his stomach; the tape informs Hoffman that he is wrong to think that it is all over just because Jigsaw is dead, and he should not expect to go untested.

The events of Saw V show one of Hoffman's first solo tests, five people connected together by different roles in a disastrous fire that killed several others are put into four interconnected tests of teamwork, killing off one person in each trap. The two remaining test subjects realize at the final trap that each previous trap was meant to be completed by each of the five people doing a small part, rather than killing one person per trap. With this, the two work together and barely manage to escape from the series of traps. They are found by Detective Erikson and are alive.[3] Meanwhile, Hoffman has set up Peter Strahm to appear to be Jigsaw's accomplice, while Strahm pursues Hoffman and is eventually killed due to the inability to follow Hoffman's rules, leaving Hoffman free to continue Jigsaw's "work".

Saw VI begins with Hoffman setting up a game as per John's instructions left in a box for Jill during Saw V. This game centers around an insurance executive named William Easton who oversees a team responsible for rejecting two-thirds of all insurance applications. As William progresses through four tests, he saves as many people as he can and learns the error of his choice to reject so many policies, which inherently "kill" the rejected. His last test is revealed to be a test of forgiveness by the family of Hank Abbot who William rejected a policy to in the past, who ultimately choose to kill William using Hydrofluoric acid. Meanwhile, Agent Erickson and the previously thought to be dead agent Perez search for Agent Strahm with the assistance of Hoffman. Upon finding irregularities in previous murder scenes, Perez and Erickson discover Hoffman's identity, but are killed by him before they have a chance to report him but Perez tells Hoffman that everyone knows about him. Hoffman then plants Strahm's finger prints on evidence in the room where he killed Erickson and Perez. Hoffman travels back to the site of William's tests in which Jill attacks him to obey John's final request. She leaves Hoffman in a new Reverse-Bear Trap left behind by John where he is able to manipulate the trap and escape wounded. Hoffman is left in the area, screaming, with his face mangled by Jill's trap.

Production elements

Traps

An important component of each film is the variety of mechanical traps Jigsaw and his apprentices use on their captives to communicate his message. According to David Hackl, all of the traps are real objects, and not CGI. They were designed to look horrific but ultimately be safe for the actors in them. Writer Marcus Dunstan said, "It's built to function there on the day," and added, "It works. So if there's a scalping chair – there really was a chair with working gears to grind and pull your scalp back." The most potentially dangerous item was a "water box," used in Saw V, in which one of the actors (Scott Patterson, as Peter Strahm) had to keep his head submerged as long as possible. Another element of the traps is that Hackl desired a specific look of rust and menace, but he also wanted them to have a type of beauty about them.[4]

"Hello Zepp"

Main article: Hello Zepp

"Hello Zepp" is a piece of incidental music that was originally composed by Charlie Clouser for the first film in the series. In Saw, the implied primary antagonist, named Zep Hindle, is revealed to actually be a victim of the real antagonist, the Jigsaw Killer. (The character's name in the script is spelled 'Zep', whereas the music titles are spelled 'Zepp').[5][6] As the series continued, the piece was reused in every film as a leitmotif, often being renamed and remixed to accommodate the changing situations and characters. The music was used in every Saw ending, except for Saw VI where a remixed, slightly modified version of the song was used.

Crew

Production

Film Director Writer(s) Producer(s)
Saw (2004) James Wan Story by James Wan & Leigh Whannell
Screenplay by Leigh Whannell 		Mark Burg
Oren Koules
Gregg Hoffman
Saw II (2005) Darren Lynn Bousman Leigh Whannell & Darren Lynn Bousman
Saw III (2006) Story by James Wan & Leigh Whannell
Screenplay by Leigh Whannell
Saw IV (2007) Story by Thomas Fenton & Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Screenplay by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Saw V (2008) David Hackl Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan Mark Burg
Oren Koules
Saw VI (2009) Kevin Greutert[7]
Saw 3D (2010)

Characters

Main article: List of Saw characters
See also: List of Saw cast members

List indicator(s)

  • Italics indicate appearances in flashback or archive footage from previous films.
  • A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Character Film
Saw Saw II Saw III Saw IV Saw V Saw VI Saw 3D
John Kramer/Jigsaw Tobin Bell[8]
Amanda Young Shawnee Smith Shawnee Smith Shawnee Smith Shawnee Smith
Mark Hoffman Costas Mandylor[9]
Jill Tuck Betsy Russell[8]
Allison Kerry Dina Meyer Dina Meyer
Eric Matthews Donnie Wahlberg Donnie Wahlberg
Daniel Rigg Lyriq Bent Lyriq Bent
Jeff Denlon Angus Macfadyen Angus Macfadyen
Lynn Denlon Bahar Soomekh Bahar Soomekh
Peter Strahm Scott Patterson Scott Patterson
Lindsey Perez Athena Karkanis Athena Karkanis Athena Karkanis
Dan Erickson Mark Rolston
Adam Stanheight Leigh Whannell Leigh Whannell Leigh Whannell[10]
Lawrence Gordon Cary Elwes Cary Elwes[11]
Billy the Puppet Tobin Bell (voice)

Reception

Box office

Film Release date Revenue Budget References
United States Foreign Worldwide
Saw October 29, 2004 (2004-10-29) $55,185,045 $47,911,300 $103,096,345 $1,200,000 [12]
Saw II October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28) $87,039,965 $65,900,000 $147,739,965 $4,000,000 [13][14]
Saw III October 27, 2006 (2006-10-27) $80,238,724 $84,635,551 $164,874,275 $10,000,000 [15]
Saw IV October 26, 2007 (2007-10-26) $63,300,095 $76,052,538 $139,352,633 — [16]
Saw V October 24, 2008 (2008-10-24) $56,746,769 $57,110,764 $113,857,533 $10,800,000 [17]
Saw VI October 23, 2009 (2009-10-23) $27,693,292 $36,651,407 $64,344,699 $11,000,000 [18]
Total $370,203,890 $368,261,560 $738,465,450 $37,000,000+ —

Critical reaction

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Overall Cream of the Crop
Saw 48% (161 reviews)[19] 31% (32 reviews)[20] 46% (32 reviews)[21]
Saw II 35% (116 reviews)[22] 22% (27 reviews)[23] 40% (28 reviews)[24]
Saw III 25% (83 reviews)[25] 6% (18 reviews)[26] 48% (16 reviews)[27]
Saw IV 17% (71 reviews)[28] 0% (15 reviews)[29] 36% (16 reviews)[30]
Saw V 13% (70 reviews)[31] 8% (13 reviews)[32] 19% (12 reviews)[33]
Saw VI 42% (60 reviews)[34] 20% (10 reviews)[35] 30% (12 reviews)[36]
Average 30% 15% 37%

Future

Films

Main article: Saw 3D

In 2009, when discussing the future of the franchise, producer Troy Begnaud stated that if fan reception continued to be positive, the franchise would continue. When asked the specifics, he mentioned a 3D film as a possibility, but had not been officially discussed.[37]

On July 18, 2009 it was reported that the writers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth entries, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, would return to write a seventh film in the franchise.[38] This was confirmed later in the same month when David Hackl, director of the fifth installment, and Saw producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules were also confirmed to be returning to make the seventh installment.[39] During an event regarding the Dunstan and Melton penned film The Collector, it was confirmed that the 3D sequel will most likely be the seventh film, which is set to be released October 2010, keeping with the franchise releasing a film in that month.[40][41] On October 14, 2009 franchise owner and producer Mark Burg, and co-writer Marcus Dunstan announced that Saw VII will be in 3D and production was slated to begin in January 2010 for an October 2010 release.[42] Since then, Lions Gate have confirmed that Costas Mandylor will return for VII and also confirmed an October 22, 2010 release date.[43]

On November 20, 2009 Saw VII co-writer Patrick Melton said he had a "strong feeling" that Saw VII would be the last installment since Saw VI did poorly at the box office.[44] On January 26, 2010 it was reported that Hackl had been dropped, and the director of Saw VI and editor of Saw through Saw V, Kevin Greutert would direct, two weeks before filming began. Greutert was about to begin work on Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2, which is also scheduled to be released on October 22, 2010, when Lionsgate replaced Hackl with Greutert.[7][45]

The end of the series was confirmed in USA Today on July 22, 2010 stating that Tobin Bell and the Saw producers would be making this announcement at the San Diego Comic-Con International the following day.[46]

Merchandise and attractions

Films

Main article: List of Saw media
File:SawBoxSet.jpg
UK Complete DVD set of the first five films
  • "Saw", a 2003 short film that served as a promotional tool in pitching the film's potential to Lions Gate Entertainment, included on the second disc of the uncut DVD release of Saw.
  • Saw, released on October 29, 2004.
  • Saw II, released on October 28, 2005.
  • Saw III, released on October 27, 2006.
  • Saw IV, released on October 26, 2007.
  • Saw V, released on October 24, 2008.
  • Saw VI, released on October 23, 2009.
  • Saw 3D, released on October 28, 2010.

Attractions

  • "Saw: The Ride", a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster themed around the franchise, opened on March 13, 2009 at Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom. The ride features an enclosed dark ride section with special effects, before cars travel outside and are pulled up a 100ft vertical lift hill into a steep 100 degree drop.
  • Thorpe Park opened a temporary saw attraction, Saw - Movie Bites for their 2009 Fright Nights event.
  • It was announced in October 2009 that Thorpe Park would also be adding a new permanent, year-round live action horror maze themed around the Saw movies. It opened at the start of the 2010 season, and features six scenes representing one iconic trap from each movie to date.[47]
  • "Saw: Game Over", a 2009 maze made by Universal Studios for Halloween Horror Nights, based on characters, traps, and scenes from the films.[48] At the Universal Studios Hollywood rendition of Horror Nights it was titled Saw: Game Over, while at the Universal Studios Orlando rendition, it was simply titled Saw.
  • "Saw", during the month of October at Fright Dome, Circus Circus Las Vegas. A Saw themed haunted house, complete with interactive, handcrafted replicas of the "games" set by Jigsaw. Introduced in 2009 and partnered with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures.
  • In 2010, "Halloween Fright Nights" at Warner Bros. Movie World featured a maze created by Sudden Impact Entertainment, based on the characters, traps and scenes from the films. The maze was simply titled "Saw Maze".[49]
  • "Saw Haunted Attraction" was a Saw maze at the Brea Plaza Shopping Center in 2008 created by Sinster Pointe Haunted Attractions.
  • "SAWMANIA" was a fan event a BLVD in New York. Eventgoers were able to meet actors and directors, and view props used in the films.

Video games

Japanese video game company Konami currently owns the rights to the Saw interactive video game property. Konami stated in mid-2009 that they wanted to make Saw a series of video games to supplement the films. They also wish to make Saw their next big survival horror franchise next to their other property, Silent Hill. They stated that because Saw focuses on visual intensity and Silent Hill focuses on psychological terror, both could exist in the video game industry without directly competing against each other.[50]

Saw, a video game set between the first two films in the series, was initially released on October 6, 2009.[51][52][53]

On April 9, 2010 Konami announced Saw II and released a teaser trailer. It is scheduled to be released in the autumn of 2010 to coincide with the release of Saw 3D.[54]

Other media

  • Saw: Rebirth, a comic book prequel to the original film released to promote Saw II. Its canonicity was later contradicted by events in Saw IV.
  • Saw: Das Spiel, a 2007 browser-based, fan-made online game. It is a point-and-click game set outside the immediate film plotlines.

Records

  • Following the release of Saw V the franchise became the most successful horror franchise based on US domestic box office, grossing more than the Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and Friday the 13th franchises in unadjusted dollars.[55] Following the release of the reboot of Friday the 13th, and before Saw VI's release it was pushed back to second place.[56]
  • Both II and III broke records when they were released in the holiday period of Halloween. Both movies managed to top the "Halloween Weekend Openers" Saw II premiered with $31.7 million in 2005, and Saw III, which bowed to a slightly higher $33.6 mil in 2006. Saw IV premiered at $32.1 million, making it number one at the box office on Halloween weekend 2007.[57][58]
  • The first five movies in the Saw series grossed over $340 million, putting them in the top 10 all-time highest total gross for Lions Gate.[59]
  • On IGN's list of the top twenty-five movie franchises of all time, the Saw series ranks as number twenty-five.[60]
  • The franchise was placed in the Guinness World Records as the "Most Successful Horror Movie Series" at San Diego's Comic-Con 2010.[61]

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