![]() It's a lesson they will have to learn as they go and many die. Simply, if this group of selfish and narcissistic individuals put aside their differences, they could survive or they could go it alone and die. Running underneath each insidious trap is a complicated lesson to be learned, a subtextual theme running through all of Jigsaw's actions, one that runs counter to the Survival of the Fittest instinct for self preservation. How the antidote is hidden is part of Jigsaw's sadistic pattern of complicated killing devices that allow the victims a role in deciding how far they will go to save their own life. This disparate group, who have a connection to one another that is not as mysterious as it appears to be, have been told that they have been dosed with a deadly nerve gas that will kill them in two hours unless they can obtain needles filled with the antidote that have been hidden throughout the house. Each of these potential victims holds the key to their own survival whether they know it or not. Amanda is the key to this group because she has survived Jigsaw's game before. Trapped in the house with Daniel are Xavier ( Franky G), Jonas ( Glen Plummer), Addison ( Emmanuel Vaugier), Laura (Beverly Mitchell), Obi (Tim Byrd) and Amanda ( Shawnee Smith). Inside the booby trapped house are a collection of former drug addicts and convicts whom Jigsaw has chosen for his latest experiment in survival of the fittest. Meanwhile, Matthews must try quiet his raging emotions to bargain with the heady and crafty killer as his latest masterwork of murder unfolds. The house is rigged with elaborate murder devices and Matthews, along with his partner, Allison Kerry ( Dina Meyer of Starship Troopers fame), can only watch on Jigsaw's hidden cameras as the victims discover their fate. Daniel ( Eric Knudson), and placed him in an abandoned house with several other potential victims. To ensure that Matthews plays along, Jigsaw has kidnapped Matthews' son. He can lose an eye and save his life or die horribly, the choice is his, how much does he value life?Īt the sight of the latest jigsaw murder a cop named Matthews ( Donnie Wahlberg) has received an invitation to go head to head with Jigsaw himself. Here is where things get tough, the key has been surgically placed behind his eyeball. His only way out is to locate the key to the device. He has minutes before the mask will slam shut, crushing nails through his skull. Masks filled with nails are positioned in front of and behind his head. A nameless 20 something guy awakens to find himself wearing an ancient torture device. Having not paused for a moment since we last saw him we are immediately thrust into the horror of his latest victim. When last we left the Jigsaw killer ( Tobin Bell) he had just escaped after completing a masterpiece of murder. That squirm factor comes with a philosophical edge that many don't want to acknowledge but is undeniably there. Saw II made audiences twist in their seats in horror and disgust with sound design and visuals while tantalizing audiences with classic horror tropes. But what makes Saw II nearly the equal of its predecessor is the squirm factor. Still in place from the original were the complicated murders and moral questions. Saw II reinvented the plot the following year in 2005 by expanding the cast and delivering our killer in person and at the front of the plot, rather than his clever cameo in the original. However, it the disturbing moral questions that the film asks that gave Saw a hint of kinky intelligence and depth that truly set it apart from the horror genre as something smarter and more memorable. The Rube Goldbergian murder inventions of the film's faceless killer, Jigsaw, were some of the most inventively horrifying creations ever brought to film and helped distinguish the film from other horror movies, under the label of torture porn. With this review, I am picking up the franchise again and looking them, one movie at a time while placing them in the context of when they were released.Ģ004's Saw was a surprisingly clever horror story that combined elements of David Fincher’s Seven with the classic blood and guts that the horror genre is known for. I've already published reviews of Jigsaw (2017), Saw 3D (2010) and the original Saw (2004). ![]() As part of a series looking at the franchise, I am watching and reviewing the Saw movies. Spiral: From the Book of Saw opens May 14th, 2021.
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