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Saw II
Saw II film poster
Directed by	Darren Lynn Bousman
Produced by	Gregg Hoffman Oren Koules Mark Burg
Written by	Leigh Whannell Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring	Donnie Wahlberg Tobin Bell Shawnee Smith Erik Knudsen Franky G Glenn Plummer Emmanuelle Vaugier Beverley Mitchell Timothy Burd Dina Meyer Lyriq Bent Noam Jenkins Tony Nappo
Music by	Charlie Clouser
Distributed by	Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date(s)	October 28, 2005
Running time	93 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	USD 4,000,000 (estimated)
Preceded by	Saw
Followed by	Saw III
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Saw II is a 2005 horror film. It is the sequel to the 2004 horror film Saw. The entire film (apart from external shots) was filmed in one building over the span of 25 days. It was released in most parts of the world on October 28, 2005, but not released in Australia until December 1, 2005. Darren Lynn Bousman took over directing duties, and also co-wrote the story's script with Leigh Whannell, the original film's co-writer.

The film features the antagonist of the previous film, the Jigsaw Killer, finally being apprehended, but trapping the arresting officer in one of his own games while showing another "game" of eight people in progress at the same time. It also explores the character's back story, explaining why he became a serial killer.

The film is currently #16 on Bravo's Even Scarier Movie Moments. Following the film's opening weekend gross of $31.5m, Lions Gate Films commissioned Saw III, released on October 27, 2006.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Critical reaction 4 Soundtrack 5 Unrated Edition 6 Box office gross 7 References 8 External links

After arguing with his rebellious teenage son Daniel, Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to the scene of yet another death perpetrated by the Jigsaw killer (Tobin Bell), on account of his name being written on the wall. Realizing that the iron maiden-like device clamped on the victim's head bears a Wilson Steel logo, he gathers a SWAT team and arrives at the company's abandoned factory, which has now become another lair of Jigsaw's. In a control room therein a set of computer monitors shows several people trapped in a mysterious house, with Daniel among them. A timer is present, showing less than two hours left on the clock. Jigsaw is there, sitting quietly at a worktable and considerably weakened by cancer. He informs Detective Matthews that he will see his son in a "safe, secure state," only if he can sit with him in the room and converse long enough.

In the house, the kidnapped characters begin to awaken; other than Daniel, Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) is also present, a familiar face from Saw (the only known survivor of Jigsaw's games to date). The characters learn from a micro cassette that, though the doors to the house will open in three hours, a toxic nerve gas is leaking into the house which will kill them in two hours unless they can find antidotes. One of these is in a safe in the room with them; the combination to which is said to be "in the back of [their] mind." Embezzler Gus is quickly killed while peering out the door's peep hole because Xavier, a drug dealer, attempts to unlock the door with a key found next to a note reading "do not attempt to use the key on the door to this room."

The story now intercuts between Jigsaw's lair as Matthews talks with him in an attempt to buy time while the video signal is traced, and the captives in the house trying to secure antidotes. In the basement, they find a message for arsonist Obi (Tim Burd), revealing that he helped in the capture of everybody in the house. Soon after, he is burned to death by a furnace after attempting to take the two antidotes from inside.

Another tape is found, in which Jigsaw condemns Xavier for being a drug dealer; a pit with thousands of used hypodermic syringes is revealed, with a key to an antidote hidden within. Instead of searching the pit himself, Xavier throws Amanda in. Amanda retrieves the key, but Xavier fails to unlock the door before its timer runs out and the antidote is lost.

Jigsaw reveals that the people trapped in the house are all criminals who were framed by Matthews at one point, and that his son may be killed should the others discover his identity. Matthews, growing impatient with Jigsaw's philosophical ramblings, trashes the models and plans but fails to move Jigsaw.

Xavier, having abandoned the others, finds a colored number written on the back of Gus' neck. Realizing this is where the combination to the safe must be hidden, Xavier kills Jonas to retrieve his number and begins stalking the remaining four captives, who have been made aware that Daniel is the son of their arresting officer. Soon after discovering this clue (taped to the back of a painting), Laura dies from gas exposure.

Addison stumbles upon a glass box containing an antidote, a trap meant for Gus, and becomes caught in it. Xavier comes to Addison, alerted by her screams for help, but only to obtain her number; rather than unlock the box he leaves her to die of blood loss. Xavier then discovers that Daniel is Matthews' son and hunts him and Amanda down.

Watching this on the monitors in Jigsaw's headquarters, Matthews loses control and violently assaults Jigsaw, eventually forcing him to take him to the house at gunpoint. As they depart, the tech team discovers the signal and follows it.

Xavier pursues Amanda and Daniel through a trapdoor, which leads to the Bathroom trap from the first film, featuring a severed foot of Dr. Gordon and the remains of Zep Hindle and Adam Faulkner in an advanced state of decomposition. After Xavier threatens Amanda for her number, she asks him how he intends to read his own number. In response, Xavier slices off the piece of skin from the back of his neck where it is written. Xavier then attacks a prone Daniel, but he is revealed to be playing possum and slashes Xavier's throat open with Dr. Gordon's hacksaw from the previous film.

Meanwhile, Matthews arrives at the last house on the left (an allusion to one of the film-maker's inspirations, Wes Craven) and makes his way inside, eventually finding the trapdoor. The SWAT team, meanwhile, arrives at the location of the video signal, but it is not the same house that has been shown on the monitors in Jigsaw's lair; the events in the house took place on a previous occasion, and were broadcast from tape.

Matthews arrives in the bathroom and is stabbed in the thigh with a hypodermic syringe and knocked unconscious by a person wearing Jigsaw's pig mask.

The timer at Jigsaw's lair expires and a safe opens, revealing a hyperventilating Daniel inside wearing an oxygen mask.

Matthews awakens to find himself chained to a pipe. An audio tape lying next to him reveals that Amanda has put him there. In a series of flashbacks, we learn that Amanda has become Jigsaw's protégé, and that Matthews is her first victim, as revenge for framing her and sending her to prison where she acquired an addiction to Heroin. Amanda appears in the door and says "Game over," before closing the bathroom door, Matthews screaming threats and abuse; though different characters, the scene is otherwise identical to the ending of the first film. Outside the house, a badly beaten Jigsaw slowly forms a smile.

Actor	Role
Donnie Wahlberg	Detective Eric Matthews
Shawnee Smith	Amanda Young
Tobin Bell	John Kramer / Jigsaw
Emmanuelle Vaugier	Addison
Franky G	Xavier
Dina Meyer	Detective Allison Kerry
Beverley Mitchell	Laura
Glenn Plummer	Jonas
Lyriq Bent	Lieutenant Rigg
Tim Burd	Obi
Tony Nappo	Gus
Erik Knudsen	Daniel Matthews
Noam Jenkins	Michael
Kelly Jones	SWAT Pete

Even more so than in the previous film, critics found Jigsaw's diabolic "games" to require a large amount of planning and fortuitous timing in order to succeed, causing some to liken his murderous schemes to Rube Goldberg machines.^{[1][2][3] [4]}Tobin Bell addressed some of these criticisms by saying, "My sense is that [Jigsaw] is so detail oriented that I think he thinks in terms of worst case scenario. I think he’s a very good judge of character, so his sense that, for example, that Detective Matthews was going to play right into his trap, which he did, was right on. Now, it seems to me that he’s got plan 2 always in place. And there’s probably been a number of plan 2s. I mean, we’ve only seen three movies. Maybe there are six more somewhere where he failed, where something didn’t play out." ^[5]

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the aggregate rating of this film was only 35%, with several reviewers revolted by the explicit gore and torture scenes.^[6] Of the few critics who provided positive reviews, some remarked that it was a worthy follow-up, providing plenty of what fans of the first expected.^[7] As with its predecessor, however, the film garnered far more positive reception with the public than with critics. It currently holds a rating of 74% by users at Rotten Tomatoes, and a score of 6.9 at the Internet Movie Database.^[8]

Main article: Saw II (soundtrack)

Saw II has been released on a standard as well as a "Special Edition" uncut DVD. Differences in this edition include:

• When the police are entering the Wilson Steel warehouse, three short cuts are shown of Jigsaw upstairs, realizing the police have arrived. When he realizes this, he calmly goes back to what he was working on.
• When the police are approaching Jigsaw several scenes are added where he is eating Cheerios (as stated in the commentary on the original DVD).
• Jigsaw has a few extra lines of dialogue with Detective Matthews, mentioning that he has "wiped the slate clean", and that most people are merely "sleepwalking".
• When Obi is trapped in the oven, he attempts to break the glass on the far side as he is burning alive.
• The scene of Amanda searching the syringe pit is extended by about a minute; oddly, this minute does not consist of Amanda thrashing around, but is mostly taken up by her sitting motionless inside, afraid to move.
• In the bathroom, Charlie Clouser's score begins as Xavier begins cutting off his skin, and continues until he dies from his throat being slashed.
• The opening scene with "The Venus Headtrap" is extended and the song "Irresponsible Hate Anthem (Venus Headtrap Mix)" is playing in the background.
• The scene where Matthews is beating up Jigsaw is extended with one extra punch.

This is the shortest unrated version in the series at 95 minutes, whereas Saw III's unrated version is close to two hours.

In the Unrated Edition, as with the first Saw, there is an easter egg called "Saw 2 in 62". It has three "takes", the first one is using clay figures modeled after the characters in the film, the second replaces the character with common materials, and the third one uses photos from the film which are animated.

• Made for only $4 million, Saw II grossed over $144 million worldwide, which includes $87 million in the United States.

• Official SAW Website and Fan Club
• Official Tobin Bell Website and Fan Club
• Official SAW Props, Wardrobe and Autograph Auction
• Official website
• Saw II at the Internet Movie Database
• Saw II at Rotten Tomatoes
• Saw III: Jigsaw Cuts Loose Video interview with Tobin Bell on MTV.com
• Donnie Wahlberg interview for Saw II
• Official World of Saw at UGO

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v • d • e Saw series
Films	Saw (short) • Saw • Saw II • Saw III • Saw IV • Saw V
Characters	Jigsaw • Amanda • Gordon family • Adam • Allison • Eric • Reinhart family • Rigg • Hoffman
Film Soundtracks	Saw • Saw II • Saw III • Saw IV
Other	Traps • Billy the puppet • Pig mask • Saw: Rebirth • "Hello Zepp"