Saw IV

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Movie
German title Saw IV
Original title Saw IV
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length Cinema: 92 minutes
Unrated: 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 / SPIO / JK: No serious risk to young people (cut version) unabridged: unchecked (indexed)
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Director Darren Lynn Bousman
script Patrick Melton ,
Marcus Dunstan
production Mark Burg ,
Oren Koules
music Charlie Clouser ,
X Japan
camera David A. Armstrong
cut Kevin Greutert
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chronology

←  Predecessor
Saw III

Successor  →
Saw V

Saw IV is an American horror - splatter film from director Darren Lynn Bousman from the year 2007 and the sequel to Saw , Saw II and Saw III .

Leigh Whannell (leading actor of the first part and also screenwriter of the first parts) was no longer responsible as a screenwriter here. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan took on this task. The film opened in US cinemas on October 26, 2007 and in German cinemas on February 7, 2008.

action

( The sequence described relates to the German theatrical version and not to a (US) director's cut . ) The film begins with the autopsy of John Kramer (Jigsaw), who was killed at the end of Saw III . A tape was found in his stomach. On this tape Jigsaw announces that his "games" have only just begun now that he is dead.

The next scene shows two men in a room. This is Jigsaw's former lawyer, Art, and a man who had an eye on Kramer's wife, Jill. The latter had both eyes sewn shut and Art's mouth was sewn shut. Hence, one cannot see and the other cannot speak. So no communication is possible. In addition, both have an iron shackle around their necks, which are connected to a machine in the middle of the room by a chain. In contrast to the previously known pattern of a jigsaw trap, Kramer does not give any instructions in the form of a tape or video on how the trap is to be survived. As the machine begins to rotate, the rolling chains pull the men towards each other in the middle, where they end up being crushed. Art notices that there is a key on the other's hand. Since the “blind man” cannot see that his counterpart has no bad intentions, he panic and a fight ensues. Art kills the man and is able to free himself with the help of the key. At the end of the scene you can see Art opening his mouth and the thread with which it was sewn up ripping open his lips.

In a parallel plot, detectives Hoffman (who also appeared in Saw III ) and Rigg (who played a SWAT policeman in Saw II ) find the corpse of their colleague Kerry, whose torso was torn to pieces by another death machine at the beginning of the previous film, Saw III . In Saw III, Kerry first suspected that the jigsaw killer must have an accomplice. The FBI profilers Agent Strahm and Agent Perez are then assigned to Hoffman and Rigg to support them.

When Rigg comes home that evening, his wife unexpectedly drives away for a few days. At night he is woken up by a noise and shortly afterwards knocked down. He wakes up in the bathtub of his apartment. A message from Jigsaw tells him that he always helps other people before he helps himself. That's why he's being tested that night. If he can solve the tasks given to him in 90 minutes, he will be able to rescue Detective Hoffman and his old friend Detective Matthews, who , as can now be seen, had survived in Saw II (but was captured by Jigsaw and never released). As he looks around the apartment, he discovers a woman who is being held in a chair. In this first task he should simply disappear and leave the woman to her fate. However, Rigg does not listen and frees the woman from the chair. The woman should scalp this by slowly pulling her clamped hair down. The woman then takes out a knife that is stuck under the television and tries to kill Rigg. However, after Rigg they killed, he discovers a tape, can be heard on that the woman should kill Rigg, because otherwise of rig for prostitution would be arrested.

Detectives Hoffman and Matthews are in John Kramer's abandoned workshop with Art. Matthews is hung from his neck on a chain and stands on a block of ice that is slowly melting. He was detained for 6 months and given a metal splint for his shattered right foot. Hoffman sits tied to a chair. Art guards the game from Rigg. It now stands to reason that he could be the new Jigsaw. If the door to the room were opened before 90 minutes had passed, all three would die, contrary to old Jigsaw's message to Rigg after he woke up in the bathtub.

In the meantime, the police discovered the dead woman in Rigg's apartment. She also finds numerous pictures, including some of Jigsaw's ex-wife Jill. She is interrogated by the police and tells about Jigsaw's past.

During the next test, Rigg meets Ivan, a rapist and voyeur. Fueled by the photos of Ivan's victims and Jigsaw's cassette messages, Rigg forces Ivan to go into a room that is decorated with photos of his rapes and murders. After a while a film starts showing that Ivan was raped on a girl who was tied up. Rigg forces the man at gunpoint to step into one of Jigsaw's traps and chain his arms and legs to shackles. Then he learns via video from Jigsaw that he has the choice to take his own eyesight (through small scythes attached next to his head, just waiting to fold in the middle of his eyes) what his survival would mean, or to get all extremities torn from the body by suddenly tightening one's ankle. To make the choice, he is given two switches (one for each eye). The man sees himself only able to push a button and is torn apart, but Rigg had left the room before.

When the police discovered this crime scene too, they came to the conclusion that Jigsaw would like Rigg to be his successor, as messages were written on the wall at the crime scenes that indicated (“See how I see”, “Feel how I feel ”etc.).

Arriving at the third test, Rigg discovers a couple who are hanging back to back and pierced with metal rods. The problem is that as soon as the woman pulls out the rods, the husband dies because the rods are passed through vital blood vessels in the man but not in the woman. It is also learned that the man has badly mistreated his wife in the past. She pulls the sticks out of her body without the man really being able to defend himself. He's slowly bleeding to death. In the end, she asks Rigg for help. He gives her a key and just tells her to help herself, and sets off the fire alarm.

Meanwhile, the police continue questioning Jill and learn that she was pregnant from Jigsaw. However, she lost the child to an attack by Cecil, a drug addicted thief. At the hospital, Jigsaw talks to his wife Jill about the loss and about Cecil. Jigsaw mentions that no one can help Cecil, he has to help himself. Cecil is Jigsaw's first victim. He is tied to a chair and has a device made of knives mounted in front of his head, the blades pointing towards his face. He has to push his face through the knife to escape the trap. He makes it too, but is seriously injured. When he then tries to kill John, he ends up in a cage made of NATO wire .

The police also find Rigg's third game. Agent Perez is injured by a bomb and has to be hospitalized. In the meantime, Strahm finds out where Rigg has gone: to the Jigsaw workshop. So he is going there.

In the intervening scenes, just like in more detail in Saw II , you can see John going to the oncologist to find out about his cancer and then trying to kill himself in the car.

Rigg has meanwhile reached the Jigsaw workshop and is looking for detectives Matthews and Hoffman - his final test. Rig reaches the room where the others are before 90 minutes have passed. Detective Matthews tries desperately to prevent him from entering and shoots him through the glass in the door with a revolver he received from Art some time before. Since Rigg opens the door against his better judgment, Matthew's head is shattered by two large blocks of ice swinging down. Then the wounded Rigg Art shoots, believing he was the mastermind. Art was given further instructions after winning the first trap, however, and is kept under control by Jigsaw with a trap that could crush his cervical spine. This was known only to Matthews, Hoffman and Art themselves.

In the meantime, Agent Strahm also reaches the Jigsaw workshop. He searches the house when suddenly you hear the voice of Jigsaw and the chop saw from part 3. Now the viewer notices that Saw IV , except for the opening scenes, plays simultaneously with the plot of Saw III . Agent Strahm reaches the room in which he finds Jeff, who yells at Strahm about where his daughter is ( see Saw III ). The agent kills Jeff in self-defense and finds Lynn, Amanda and old Jigsaw from the Saw III storyline dead.

Rigg talks briefly to Art, who takes out a tape, and Rigg shoots him, thinking Art is reaching for a weapon. He listens to the tape of sorts. Jigsaw then tells him that he has failed ("they have to save themselves") and that he did not pass his last test. Detective Hoffman breaks out of his chair and stands up. When he leaves the room, the viewer realizes the connections and learns that Hoffman has been on Jigsaw's side for a long time. He's also the one who put the envelope that upset Amanda in Saw III (and, logically, the one that captured and trapped Detective Matthews). He walks out of the room with the words " Game over " and goes into the room where the old dead Jigsaw is lying. Strahm is still stunned in front of Jigsaw's corpse while Hoffman slides the door shut, locks it and locks Strahm in with it.

At the end you can see the opening scenes of the autopsy and Detective Hoffman playing the tape from John's stomach. This indicates that Hoffman himself has not yet been tested (“It's not over yet - the games have only just begun”).

Reviews

“Even the fourth part of the disgusting success franchise is alien to any thought or purpose. The makers are only interested in the 'kick' of absurd violence scenarios and the pleasure in gruesome games. "

- Lexicon of international film

“There is not much left of the former horror hopefuls 'Saw'. Where the first part offered an innovative and clever puzzle game for adult (and above all hard-boiled) viewers, the pool of ideas is now completely exhausted by the fourth infusion. "

- Film review at gamona.de

“What began as a perfidious low-budget flick has now developed into a gold mine. Part 1 grossed a whopping 102 million on a budget of around one million dollars. And an end is (unfortunately) not in sight. While the ingenious twists and turns at the beginning of the series demanded just as much from the audience as the Metzel sequences, the barely comprehensible twists in the new massacre seem constructed and over-motivated. In addition, the splatter factor has been reduced somewhat, although an autopsy shown in all details still hits the pit of the stomach. In contrast, the flashbacks, in which Jigsaw's motivation is highlighted, are successful. Still too little for intelligent horror. Conclusion: Now it's enough: All too blurry continuation of a previously ingenious series of shockers "

- Film review at Cinema

backgrounds

  • Saw IV grossed $ 32.1 million on its first weekend in the United States. That is a little less than its predecessor. Saw IV grossed around $ 140 million in total . In the US alone it was around $ 63 million.
  • Even before Saw IV came out , two more parts, Saw V and Saw VI , were confirmed.
  • With the 4th part, the Saw series has become the most successful horror film series. The first three parts grossed a total of $ 400 million in cinemas worldwide and over 14 million DVDs were sold.
  • This time the title song was written by the band X Japan . It went on sale with the Title IV .
  • In Germany, the theatrical version was indexed on September 30, 2008 .
  • The German theatrical version has a running time of 87:55 minutes. This is the SPIO / JK version that is indexed. This version is also shortened compared to the American theatrical version.
  • The version of SAW IV currently on the market has been checked by FSK and has a running time of 79:10 minutes.
  • In Austria, the film is also distributed Unrated as a Director's Cut. The running time is approx. 92 minutes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saw IV. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Conclusion of the film review by gamona.de, published on February 7, 2008
  3. ↑ Cinema review, accessed January 14, 2009
  4. ↑ Box Office Mojo.com: [1] , Box office results Saw 4.