Halloran then admits to allowing criminals to walk free for personal gain and his collar deactivates, before Logan reveals to him that he is still alive and also the killer. The events of Saw V show one of Hoffman's first solo tests: five people connected 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. Angelina Acombe, the younger sister of Detective Mark Hoffman, was murdered by her boyfriend Seth Baxter. However, before he can leave, Hoffman is abducted by Dr. Lawrence Gordon and left to die in the bathroom from Saw. Sachi is a forensic technician. In Saw 3D it is revealed that Dr. Lawrence Gordon had sewn Trevor's eyes shut. [28] Saw VI opened in second place behind Paranormal Activity to $14.1 million,[33] which is the lowest of all the Saw films worldwide. Throughout the film the audience is led to believe Zep is Jigsaw; it's not revealed until the end that Zep is a victim of Jigsaw's game rather than Jigsaw himself. Mallick, an arsonist and heroin addict, is one of five victims in the main game in Saw V. Suspicious of the other victims, Mallick managed to survive the first trap, and is saved by Luba in the second test at the expense of Charles' life, but she turns on him in the third trap. His last name is mentioned in a case file which also revealed that he has lymphoma. In Saw V, police lieutenant Mark Hoffman's ties with John are revealed in a series of flashbacks during the film. Saw is an American horror franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. The incident led Gibson to mistrust Hoffman from that moment on, and he and his partner Rogers lead the efforts to find him. In Saw 3D, Tara is part of Bobby Dagen's support group. When he enters the bathroom from Saw, Amanda incapacitates him, chains him to a pipe, and leaves him to die. [38] It made $1.6 million from Thursday night previews at 2,400 theaters, just below the $1.7 million Saw 3D made from midnight screenings seven years prior, and $7.2 million on its first day. The Crime Scene Photographer discovers a bullet at the scene of Allison Kerry's trap clamped between Kerry's corpse and the trap. Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of John Kramer, appears briefly in Saw III as part of a memory that John recalls while he is undergoing brain surgery. The deaths reported include a 19-year-old male, the youngest San Diegan to die from complications of COVID-19. Suzanne is inches from death, and with just one second left, Bobby drops it and she is killed. Saw VI later showed that another drug addict, Amanda Young, also had an unintentional role in the death of Gideon. "SAWMANIA" was a fan event in New York. After tape recording this confession and planting evidence to frame Halloran as the new Jigsaw, Logan activates the collar and slices his head open, killing him. 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. Informed by Detective Allison Kerry that two officers might be in danger, she and Strahm investigate the disappearances of Daniel Rigg and Mark Hoffman. Trevor panics and attempts to kill Art and Art is forced to kill Trevor in order to retrieve the key attached to his collar, tearing his mouth open in the process. Saw: Rebirth, a comic book prequel to the original film released to promote Saw II. In Saw: The Video Game it is revealed that Obi desires to be tested by Jigsaw repeatedly, thinking of it as a "gift". Blah, blah, blah, blah. The night when William is kidnapped, he is shot by his boss by accident. He is shown to be hostile and is witnessed by Detective Tapp killing several test subjects around Whitehurst Asylum. You never know", "I can say with pretty much certainly that our new film will NOT be called Jigsaw 2. Both men had to race to push their cages over a floor covered in broken glass towards the exit, with the winner receiving their freedom. Troy is later seen in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill's clinic. In Saw II Michael was a police informant working for Detective Eric Matthews. The DVD commentary for Saw 3D reveals Alison divorced Lawrence because of his unstable mindset. They are later seen at Bobby Dagen's Jigsaw survivors meeting. Hank is a janitor for Umbrella Health, working for William Easton. Paul was one of John's earliest victims, chosen because he attempted suicide by cutting his wrists despite having a good life with a wife and kids. Doris Day Hollywood legend, America’s ‘girl next door’ A balance scale is placed between his and Simone's cell, and the one who can cut off more weight in flesh in 60 seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws boring into his or her skull. (The character's name in the script is spelled "Zep", whereas the music titles are spelled "Zepp" as a reference to the popular 80s band Zapp. While the films have been classified as torture porn by some critics,[6][7][8] the creators of Saw disagree with that term. In Saw III, after Eric disappears, and is presumed dead, Kerry becomes wracked with guilt. Laura appears in Saw II as a prisoner of the Nerve Gas House alongside seven other victims, all but one of whom were framed for crimes they did not commit by Detective Eric Matthews. It is, however, the first canonical appearance of Jigsaw's wife, Jill, who was later introduced into the film series in Saw III, and established still-canonical elements of Jigsaw's backstory (an engineer who is dying from brain cancer.). Later, in the fifth game, he and Anna are chained to pipes at opposite sides of a room and given a shotgun loaded with one shell. The US on Thursday recorded more than 4,000 deaths from COVID-19 in a single day for the first time. It consists of nine feature films and additional media. Jigsaw reveals that Michael's real test is to see if he had the ability to punish the corrupt (Henry and Joseph) and so he is given a choice between two doors; one leads Michael to freedom and the chance to use the evidence found by his father to print the story of Jigsaw and the drug cartel. While searching for Jigsaw, David Tapp discovers their drug cartel and Sarah is used to mislead him, even though she is aware that he is not concerned about the drug cartel because of his obsession with Jigsaw. Clues left by Hoffman lead Gibson to the observation area of Bobby Dagen's tests, where he and the two officers accompanying him are killed by a remote-controlled machine gun placed in the room. Hunt follows Logan and Eleanor to Eleanor's studio and secretly takes pictures of the Jigsaw trap replicas that she has built, leading Halloran to suspect Logan and/or Eleanor of being the perpetrator of the new games. In the present, Logan sets up a new barn game using three people associated with Halloran's past cases (including Christine's murder) in order to draw him in and frame him as the new Jigsaw. Further information on the cast and characters: "Exclusive: Lionsgate Is Actively Developing Next 'Saw, "The Problem of Saw: "Torture Porn" and the Conservatism of Contemporary Horror Films", "Saw creators Leigh Whannell and James Wan", "Chris Rock To Reboot 'Saw' Franchise With Lionsgate & Twisted Pictures", "The film is NOT a reboot. After reaching the end of the maze, she discovers that the key to her device is sewn into William's side. Mallick is rescued by Brit who murders Luba and the pair used Luba's body to close the circuits and open the door to the final room. Pighead is a masked person who works for Jigsaw. Campbell is one of the two main protagonists and the brief playable character of Saw II: Flesh & Blood. John found him unconscious shortly after and congratulated him for surviving. In the third room, Brit fatally stabs her in the neck, stating that she did not trust Luba, and she and Mallick use the corpse as an electrical conductor to open the door to the final room. Each argues, trying to win William's favor as he struggles with his decisions. The films focus primarily on the character of John Kramer (Tobin Bell), the "Jigsaw Killer", who seeks out those he considers to be wasting their lives and subjects them to torturous and lethal traps, referred to as "tests" and "games", in an attempt to make them appreciate being alive. When he attempts to retrieve the syringes, he inadvertently triggers a trap that seals and ignites the furnace, burning him alive. Like the other victims, she was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. Stolberg later clarified that the ninth installment will exist in the same continuity of the previous films, though it will not be a direct sequel to Jigsaw. Attached to the mechanism is a decibel meter that brings the spikes closer to Nina whenever the sound level rises above a whisper. Handguns are involved in a majority of firearm deaths and injuries in the United States. When Lawrence fails his test, Zep attempts to kill both Alison and Diana, but they are rescued by Detective Tapp. An important component of each film is the variety of (usually mechanical in form) traps Jigsaw and his apprentices use on their captives to communicate his message. They were designed to look horrific but ultimately be safe for the actors in them. Unfriended (2014) KILL COUNT: 47. Anna later killed the baby and made it look like Matthew had smothered it in his sleep. Even though she and Michael work together, she is soon left with Henry Jacobs, who slashes her to death with a pair of scissors. Amanda fights him off and leaves him for dead. In Saw III, he is kidnapped and placed in a device called "The Rack", which begins to rotate, twisting and breaking each of his limbs one-by-one. Danica Scott was the only one to witness the hit-and-run that left Jeff Denlon's son dead. Dell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC. In Saw V, it is implied that she died from her injuries; her last words to Strahm were "Detective Hoffman", leading to Strahm's initial suspicion regarding Hoffman. Based on analysis of trace evidence on the latest victims' bodies, she determines the location of the new game, an abandoned pig farm, and takes Logan there; Halloran follows and ambushes them, but she escapes and flags down a car. The county saw its first case surge last summer, with average cases hitting a peak of nearly 890 at the start of July. They are placed at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute[12] in the last of William's four tests, and are chained to a carousel facing a shotgun that's controlled by the gears of a bicycle. When Adam tries to shoot him, he is incapacitated with an electric shock and Jigsaw seals the bathroom door, leaving Adam in the darkness of the bathroom to die. After this turn of events, John found himself trapped by his own complacency until he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. [29] It is the highest-grossing film in the series worldwide. Meanwhile, Hoffman has posed as a corpse and killed several officers to infiltrate the police station. She leaves Hoffman in a new Reverse Beartrap left behind by John, though does not leave a key for him to free himself. At the end of William Easton's game, he is confronted by Pamela, who is revealed to be his sister, and the family of a man whose medical insurance had been denied by William, in part leading to his death. John was soon given the name "The Jigsaw Killer" (or "Jigsaw"), because he removed a puzzle-piece-shaped chunk of flesh from those who did not escape his traps. According to the Saw II website, Laura is written to be 24 years old.[6]. A bundle featuring an operator dressed up as Billy the Puppet was released in Call of Duty: Warzone as part of the Haunting of Verdansk Halloween event. The first of many sequels was immediately green-lit after the film's immensely successful opening weekend. But I don't make the decisions, so who knows. When Anna and Mitch become trapped in a grain silo under a flood of pouring grain and sharp objects, he must pull a lever to save them and free himself; doing so causes the cables to sever his lower leg. Mark Hoffman intercedes, claiming Rigg was acting in self-defense and the matter was dropped. John later abducted Cecil and placed him in the first Jigsaw trap: a chair with razor blade restraints, from which he can only escape by pushing his face through a set of knives. Minutes later, they entered a room where they were confronted with a Billy doll and a tape meant for Lindsey. Fisk is also seen in flashbacks with Hoffman at the scene of Seth Baxter's death and is later told by Hoffman to keep him in the loop about the Jigsaw murders. She is placed in Bobby's test at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital. Though initially being forced to help, Hoffman later becomes a willing apprentice, and is revealed to have helped set up John's tests from almost the beginning, including some of the tests from the first film. Billy gives the victims instructions on how to escape their traps before the time expires. Tapp saves her, but she left him quickly. Paul attempts to escape, but bleeds to death before reaching the exit. After completing his tests William is confronted by Tara and Brent (the widow and son of a man whose coverage had been cancelled by William, and subsequently died as a result). Jigsaw tells Detective Steven Sing that the key to free him is on a ring with dozens of others. When Agent Peter Strahm closes in on him, Hoffman kills and frames him. They are saved when Ryan pulls a lever to release them, at the cost of severing his own leg. Her corpse is later discovered by Officer Rigg and the FBI. She is revealed to have been part of a criminal conspiracy alongside Carla, Henry, and Joseph; her role being to sell drugs on the streets. He is the first to theorize that Jigsaw may have had more than one accomplice. [42] This list is topped by Friday the 13th at $687.1 million,[43] followed by the Nightmare on Elm Street series with $592.8 million,[44] with the Hannibal Lecter film series closely behind with $588.7 million. As he is about to plug in the cords, the hooks tear through his flesh and he drops to the floor, and he watches helplessly as a large metal capsule slams shut around Joyce and she is incinerated within it. Eventually, Lawrence saws off his own foot in order to escape, leaving Adam in the bathroom while Lawrence goes to try to save his family and get help for Adam. He and his partner, Lindsey Perez, arrive at the scene of Allison Kerry's death shortly after the police find her body. In the original script for Saw, Adamâs last name was Radford. Pighead II is a replacement for the Pighead, who died during the events of the first game. After surviving the first room, Luba assaults Charles after he attacks Mallick, leaving Charles to die when explosive devices in the second room detonate. She is a former fire inspector who lost her job after writing a report to cover up an arson fire in which eight people died. As she leaned in to hear the tape, the Billy doll's face exploded sending shrapnel into her face and neck. However, she is killed before she reveals his identity. "Saw Haunted Attraction" was a maze at the Brea Plaza Shopping Center in 2008 created by Sinister Pointe Haunted Attractions. Corbett is the neglected daughter of Jeff and Lynn Denlon. Jurassic Park III (2001) KILL COUNT: 48. Pamela also appears in Saw: The Video Game, providing information to another journalist, Oswald McGillicutty, who plans to write a book and not credit Pamela. Jonas appears in Saw II as a victim of the Nerve Gas House. According to the Saw II website, Gus is written to be 38 years old.[6]. Saw 3D picks up with Jill and Hoffman battling for control of Jigsaw's legacy. Following John's death, his ex-wife Jill Tuck delivered a package to Lawrence that had been left to her in John's will; it contained a videotape with instructions from John to watch over Jill and act on his behalf if anything was to happen to her. Henry is involved in a conspiracy alongside Joseph, Carla, and Sarah to steal seized drugs and sell them on the streets, bringing him to Jigsaw's attention. At the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital, Cale is blindfolded, with a noose attached to a winch, standing at one end of a hallway with no floor, only the support beams and a few loose planks. Jigsaw rhetorically asks Tapp if he's a "murderer" for killing his servant. As he progresses through the game he saves several people, freeing Henry, Sarah, Joseph, Carla, and Solomon while surviving other victims loose in the game; criminals previously arrested by his father after revenge on his son. [2] In November 2013, it was reported that they were actively developing a sequel. He also selected Lynn Denlon as John's surgeon (Saw III) and wrote an anonymous message to Detective Mark Hoffman (Saw V) stating "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE". [40] In its third weekend, the film dropped another 47% and made $3.43 million, finishing fifth. He fails to unlock a door containing the antidote in time, and frustrated by their lack of success, abandons the others. DHS reported 132 new negative tests in … Status: Emily and Shelby Alive; Others Deceased, Status: Brad and Ryan Alive; Dina Deceased, This page was last edited on 25 January 2021, at 17:38. A tape recorder reveals that Obi aided Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims, and Obi is instructed to retrieve two antidote syringes from a furnace, keeping one for himself and giving the other away. They also wish to make Saw their next big survival horror franchise next to their other property, Silent Hill. Writer Marcus Dunstan said: "It's built to function there on the day", and added: "It works. Amanda refuses to free Lynn after Jeff completes his test, jealous of the attention John showed her and not believing she had learned anything. Suspected of multiple, vicious rapes but freed repeatedly due to the efforts of his lawyer, Art Blank, Ivan is part of Daniel Rigg's second test. [26] Saw II opened at number one with $31.7 million,[27] and set a Lionsgate Halloween opening weekend record and is also the third-highest-grossing Halloween opener. Mallick passes out from blood loss as Brit crawls out of the room, and both he and Brit are taken to safety by Erickson. Losing usually results in the death of the character or some other sort of loss, such as suffering serious injuries or causing the deaths of loved ones and friends. Through her own admission, it is revealed that she had feelings for Tapp. He appeared again in a flashback in Saw IV exiting Jill's health clinic with Paul Leahy. Logan then tells Halloran that he broke the game's rules by forcing him to go first and reactivates his collar, which slices Halloran's head open. [57], Japanese video game company Konami currently owns the rights to the Saw interactive video game property. They are captured and placed in one of two cages at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute[12] at the end of William's series of tests, with Pamela Jenkins in the other. John shows her rehabilitation to Jill, who becomes aware of his traps and becomes somewhat of an accomplice as well. Rigg fails his test, resulting in the death of Eric Matthews. After serving five years of a life sentence in prison, he is released on a technicality. Adam was kidnapped by Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda Young and placed in a game alongside Dr. Gordon, which took place in a large dilapidated bathroom. Matthew went insane and was committed to a mental institution, where he later committed suicide. In the third trap, she and Mitch are locked in a grain silo, at risk of being buried alive or cut to death by the grain and sharp objects pouring in. Having a change of heart, John saves Logan, who had made an honest mistake, and recruits him as his first apprentice. Predator, Candyman, Child's Play, The Conjuring, The Exorcist, The Evil Dead, Final Destination, Friday the 13th, Godzilla, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Hellraiser, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jaws, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Omen, Paranormal Activity, Psycho, The Purge, Scream, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - with figures adjusted for 2011 inflation,[41] is the fifth-highest-grossing horror franchise in the United States and Canada at $457.4 million. David Tapp was a detective assigned to investigate the earlier Jigsaw crimes. Solomon is an accountant involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Art Blank before the events that would turn John into Jigsaw. 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. Though initially hostile towards Michael, she later becomes more friendly, explaining that his father loved Michael even after his betrayal. In Saw IV Rigg is put through four trials, in which he is forced to understand Jigsaw's modus operandi. Henry is the Chief of Police in David Tapp's precinct. They struggle over Joseph's gun, but Michael eventually triumphs and fatally shoots Joseph in the head. Melissa encounters Tapp during the game and blames him for the death of her husband. For the fourth game, Mitch is suspended upside down and slowly lowered toward a helical blade spun by the engine of that same motorcycle. John 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 somethingâwhat he called the "survival instinct". Palmer is an Internal Affairs officer who works with Gibson and traces Hoffman's location based on video messages he sends in. When he and his assistant, Eleanor Bonneville, find the site of the new game, Halloran ambushes them; both he and Halloran are knocked out and placed in collars rigged to fire laser cutters at their heads unless they confess their wrongdoing. Xavier Chavez[8] is a drug dealer and a victim of the Nerve Gas House. Jeff is one of John's victims in Saw III. Campbell instead attempts to attack Jigsaw only to be killed by a concealed, falling scythe. Traps Xavier finds her, but leaves her to bleed to death after reading the number on the back of her neck. The franchise primarily revolves around serial killer John Kramer, also called the "Jigsaw Killer" or simply "Jigsaw". )[18][19] 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. Ivan appears in Saw IV as the clerk of the Alexander Motel. When Hoffman kills Jill and attempts to flee the city, he is ambushed by three people in pig masks, led by Lawrence. Michael's father had accidentally uncovered their drug cartel while investigating Jigsaw, so he teamed up with Henry Jacobs to hunt and kill Michael, Carla, and Sarah to tie up any loose ends that could reveal their criminal actions. Flashbacks throughout Saw VI reveal that his health insurance policy was revoked by William Easton due to a discrepancy found on his application, and he eventually died from heart disease. Pet Sematary Two (1992) KILL COUNT: 49. Attempting to evade Tapp, she is accidentally killed by a shotgun trap. For this, she is placed in Whitehurst Asylum during Saw: The Video Game in an iron-maiden trap for Tapp to save her from. He fails to do so, and the car is dropped off its jacks, crushing Kara's head. However, Brent cannot forgive him and triggers the device himself, causing a platform of needles to swing down into William's back and inject him with hydrofluoric acid. Tapp and his partner Steven Sing later found Jigsaw's warehouse, but before they could apprehend him, he activated a trap, which threatened the life of Jeff Ridenhour. A flashback reveals that Obi Tate had kidnapped her for Jigsaw. As Hoffman searches for Jill Tuck, he kills Palmer by breaking her neck, then uses her body to trick another officer into opening the door leading to the holding cell area. Recalling hints left by Jigsaw on a tape recorder, Xavier realizes that each victim has a number written on the back of their neck which, when combined, will open a safe containing the antidote. [23] Saw went on to gross $103 million worldwide,[24] and is the third-lowest-grossing film in the series after Jigsaw and Saw VI. Peter Strahm is an FBI Agent assigned to the Jigsaw case. The box office numbers, unadjusted for inflation are as follows: On IGN's list of the top twenty-five film franchises of all time, the Saw series ranked as 25th. She and Detective Mark Hoffman are called to the scene of an inescapable trap, and Kerry is the first to suspect that someone else was responsible, as the trap didn't follow Jigsaw's M.O. William is forced to choose whether to act by his company's policy or by his own morals, and the chains are gradually reeled in, making it harder for William to keep holding them; he finally chooses to save Addy, and Allen's noose cuts his throat and strangles him to death when his ledge retracts. [1] In 2012, Lionsgate reportedly expressed interest in continuing the franchise with a reboot. 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. Her death is subsequently avenged by Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who was instructed in a tape left for him by John to watch over Jill and to act immediately on John's behalf if anything happened to her. The Saw series of horror films features a large cast of characters created primarily by directors and screenwriters James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Darren Lynn Bousman, Patrick Melton, and Marcus Dunstan. He awoke with a spike-filled mask (called a "Venus flytrap" by Jigsaw) locked around his neck. Billy has also appeared in every adaption of Saw, becoming an icon of the series. He and Xavier attempt to use a key on a booby-trapped door, and Gus is shot through the eye while peering through the peephole. Jeff enters the room after Lynn is shot and retaliates by shooting Amanda; he then kills John with a circular saw, unwittingly activating Lynn's collar. After she dies, he destroys his warehouse and attempts to leave town. Trevor appears in Saw IV as a victim placed in a trap with Art Blank. John Kramer learns of the trap and uses this knowledge to coerce Hoffman into becoming his apprentice. Lindsey Perez is an FBI agent assigned to the Jigsaw case along with her partner, Agent Peter Strahm. During the finale of the game, if the player chooses the Truth door, Melissa is revealed to have been held against her will following her trap and was forced to help Jigsaw, keeping Tapp's game going until 6:00, or her son would die. They awaken in collars rigged with laser cutters as John's voice tells them to confess their sins to survive and that they may choose who goes first. Charles had been writing a report about the arson of the building that burned down, but buried the story. Little is known about the character except that he is garbed in similar attire to the original Pighead and that he is involved in placing some individuals into their respective traps, including Carla.
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