Saw (2004)
Saw is a 2004 American psychological horror film directed by James Wan. It is Wan's feature film directorial debut. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell as two men who awake to find themselves chained in a large dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other or his family will die. It is the first installment of the seven-part Saw franchise.
The debut of Wan and Whannell, the screenplay was written in 2001, but after failed attempts to get the script produced in Wan and Whannell's home country of Australia, they were urged to travel to Los Angeles. In order to help attract producers they shot a low-budget short film of the same name from a scene out of the script. This proved successful in 2003 as producers from Evolution Entertainment were immediately attached and also formed a horror genre production label Twisted Pictures. The film was given a small budget and shot for 18 days.
Saw was first screened on January 19, 2004. Lionsgate picked up the rights and released the film in the United States and Canada on October 29, 2004. Critical responses were generally mixed and divided, but the film gained a cult following. Compared to its low budget, Saw performed very well at the box office, grossing more than $100 million worldwide and becoming, at the time, one of the most profitable horror films since 1996's Scream. The success of the film prompted a green-light of a sequel soon after Saw 's opening weekend, which was released the following October.
The film was theatrically re-released by Lionsgate on October 31, 2014 to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
Storyline
After waking up in a tiny cell, two men find themselves victim of a serial killer who plays games with his victims and gives them one last chance to survive. If they wish to live, they each have to play their own game as the killer has told them on an audio script. As the film goes on, connections between the victims and the true identity of the never-showed-up killer are revealed.
Plot
Adam Stanheight, a photographer, awakens in a full bathtub. He gets out and finds himself chained at the ankle to a pipe in a large dilapidated bathroom. Lawrence Gordon, an oncologist, is chained to a pipe across the room and between them lies a corpse, holding a revolver and a microcassette recorder. Adam manages to retrieve the recorder and they learn from tapes in their pockets what they must do: Adam must survive until six o' clock, and Lawrence must kill Adam before six o'clock, or his wife and daughter will die and he will be left to die as well. Using a clue from the tape, Adam finds a bag in the toilet tank containing two hacksaws, though neither is able to cut through their chains. Adam's saw breaks and he throws it at a mirror in frustration. Lawrence realizes the saws are meant to be used on their feet and identifies their captor as the Jigsaw Killer, whom Lawrence knows of because he was once a suspect.Flashbacks show that while Lawrence was talking with some medical students and an orderly named Zep Hindle about the terminal brain cancer of a patient named John, he was approached by Detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing about his penlight being found at the scene of a Jigsaw "game". His alibi clears him, but he agrees to view the testimony of Amanda Young, a heroin addict and the only known survivor of Jigsaw's games, who believes that her experience has made her a better person.
Meanwhile, Alison and Diana, Lawrence's wife and daughter, are being held captive in their home by Zep, who is watching Adam and Lawrence through a camera behind the bathroom's mirror. The house is simultaneously being watched by Tapp, who has been discharged from the force. Flashbacks show that Tapp became obsessed with the Jigsaw case after hearing Amanda's testimony, and found Jigsaw's warehouse using the videotape from her game. He and Sing entered Jigsaws warehouse, where they saved a man from a drill trap, but Jigsaw escaped after slashing Tapp's throat and Sing was killed by a shotgun trap while pursuing him. After being discharged, Tapp began stalking Lawrence still convinced that he is Jigsaw.
In the bathroom, Lawrence finds a box containing a lighter, two cigarettes, and a one-way cellphone. Lawrence then recalls his abduction: he was trying to use his phone after being trapped in a parking garage, and was suddenly attacked by a pig-masked figure. The two try to stage Adam's death using a cigarette tainted by the corpse's poisoned blood, but the plan fails when Adam is shocked through his ankle chain. Adam then recalls his own abduction: he woke up in his photo development room to find the power was out, after finding a puppet was attacked by a pig-masked figure as well. Lawrence receives a call from Alison and is told not to trust Adam. Adam admits he was paid to take photos of Lawrence and reveals his knowledge of Lawrence's affair with one of his medical students. He then shows him several photos from the bag that contained the hacksaws, including photos of him leaving a motel, the night he was abducted. Lawrence tells Adam to describe the man who was paying him, and realizes it was Tapp. Adam later finds a photo he didn't take, of a man staring out a window of Lawrence's house. Lawrence identifies him as Zep, but the clock strikes six as he realizes this.
Alison, manages to free herself, and waits for Zep to call Lawrence and fights him for the gun. The struggle gets Tapp's attention and he saves Alison and Diana. He then follows Zep to the sewers, where he is shot after a brief struggle. Lawrence, who is only aware of gunshots and screaming, is shocked and loses reach of the phone. In desperation, he saws off his foot and shoots Adam with the corpse's revolver. Zep enters the bathroom intent on killing Lawrence, but is knocked to the ground and beaten to death with the toilet tank cover by Adam, who only suffered a flesh wound. After Lawrence crawls away to get help, Adam searches Zep's body for a key and finds another microcassette recorder, which reveals that Zep was another victim: he was following rules in order to obtain an antidote for a slow-acting poison in his body. As the tape ends, the "corpse" rises and reveals himself as John, the real Jigsaw Killer. He says that the key is in the bathtub, which went down the drain when Adam first awoke. Adam tries to shoot John with Zep's pistol but is shocked by John's remote control and loses reach of the gun. John then turns off the lights and seals the bathroom door, leaving Adam to die.
Cast
For more details on the cast and characters, see List of Saw cast members and List of Saw characters.- Cary Elwes as Dr. Lawrence Gordon
- Leigh Whannell as Adam Stanheight
- Tobin Bell as John Kramer
- Danny Glover as David Tapp
- Monica Potter as Alison Gordon
- Michael Emerson as Zep Hindle
- Ken Leung as Detective Steven Sing
- Makenzie Vega as Diana Gordon
- Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young
- Dina Meyer as Detective Allison Kerry
- Alexandra Bokyun Chun as Carla
- Mike Butters as Paul Leahy
- Paul Gutrecht as Mark Wilson
- Ned Bellamy as Jeff Ridenhour
- Oren Koules as Donnie Greco
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