Saw VI

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Movie
German title Saw VI
Original title Saw VI
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length about 90 minutes
Age rating FSK SPIO / JK: no serious risk to young people (indexed),
FSK 18 (shortened version)
Rod
Director Kevin Greutert
script Patrick Melton ,
Marcus Dunstan
production Mark Burg ,
Oren Koules
music Charlie Clouser
camera David A. Armstrong
cut Andrew Coutts
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Saw V

Successor  →
Saw 3D - Perfection

Saw VI is an American horror - splatter film from 2009 and the fifth sequel to Saw . The director was Kevin Greutert , who was responsible for editing the previous films in the series . As with the two previous films, the screenplay was written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan.

The film premiered on October 23, 2009 in the USA and on December 3, 2009 in Germany.

Saw VI ends the second trilogy in the series, which deals more with the subsequent effects of the jigsaw killer and the development of his successor, Mark Hoffman. In Saw VI, Hoffman sets a new trap in motion for health insurance employees while the FBI tries to find what they consider to be Jigsaw's last living assistant, Peter Strahm.

action

The loan sharks Simone and Eddie are stuck in head harnesses that are equipped with screws that will drill one of them in the temples. Whoever sacrifices more meat from their own body within 60 seconds than the other will survive - the other will be killed by the screws. The overweight Eddie cuts fat from his stomach, Simone cuts off an arm, tilts the scales to her advantage at the last moment and saves herself.

Dan Erickson leads the FBI investigation into Eddie's death and discovers Peter Strahm's fingerprints at the scene, which Hoffman had left there with Strahm's hand, which he took from the Saw V death room . He reports the discovery of the fingerprints to Detective Mark Hoffman and also reveals that Lindsey Perez, who was believed to be dead, is still involved in the case. Hoffman secretly meets with Jill Tuck, who hands him five envelopes that she received from John Kramer's attorney as an inheritance in a box . He takes control of the deadly puzzle the two have planned.

The game focuses on William Easton, the director of Umbrella Health . He and his subordinates decide who to help based on the probabilities of health and disease. He turned down one of John Kramer's requests to the insurance company about cancer treatment for this reason. William is in the insurance skyscraper one evening in preparation for a lawsuit when the power goes out. After William accidentally shoots a security guard, he is captured, taken to an abandoned zoo, and hung in a large vise with an oxygen mask over his face. The doorman of his office, a heavy smoker, is hung up in the same position. William must take four tests within 60 minutes to remove the bombs on his arms and legs before they explode. In the first test, the vice presses in the upper body of the man who has to breathe more often. William can hold his breath longer than the doorman, whose chest is then crushed.

In the second test, William has to hold the ends of two divergent chains. These are connected to pedestals, on which two of his employees stand with nooses of barbed wire around their necks. The chains are wound up using winches and pull on William, he has to let go of one of the chains and let the platform of a person fold down. He has the choice of saving his secretary, who is old and sick but has a family, or the office messenger, who is in excellent health and has no relatives or acquaintances. William decides - contrary to the formula he developed for calculating the lucrative value of life support - after several back and forth, during which he was pleaded by both, for the secretary; the young man is hanged in front of his eyes.

The third test takes place in the zoo's boiler room. Debbie, the company's legal advisor , has 90 seconds to move through a narrow wire mesh corridor and find the key that will allow her to remove the device on her chest that will otherwise pierce her brain with a sharp metal tube. To help her, William opens valves, redirecting jets of hot steam away from her and onto his body. Finally, on the x-rays, Debbie sees that the key is hidden in William's stomach, above his right kidney. William wants to continue to help her and is actually already trying to get the key out without having to die, when she attacks him with a circular saw . William keeps telling Debbie that he wants to help her, but has to fend off her until the time runs out and the device is activated and it kills her.

In the fourth test, William's six young employees, who are tasked with tracking down errors in health insurance applications in order to be able to reject treatment costs, are chained to a carousel. This turns each of the young people in front of a shotgun . William can save two of them by pushing two buttons in a box, piercing each hand with a bolt and thus directing the shot upwards. William listens to their mutual accusations and pleadings, saves two of the three women while the others are shot.

Then he finds himself between two cages: his sister Pamela Jenkins is in one of them, and Tara and Brent in the other. These two are the bereaved of a man whom William refused to help the insurance company, whereupon he died of his illness. There is a large hydrofluoric acid tank in each cage . Tara and Brent find a switch that says "Live" and "Die". It is a test for the two of them, and they now have the option to decide on William's life. Tara can't bring himself to pull the lever, but Brent sets it to "Die", whereupon a plate equipped with cannulas flips down from above, digs into William's body and pumps hydrofluoric acid into his body. Pamela has to watch how his body dissolves and falls apart from within.

Flashbacks during the tests show that William and John first met when Jill opened her drug clinic, and that John presented Amanda Young to his wife Jill as proof that his method of drug therapy really worked. Also, Hoffman and Amanda knew each other that they were Jigsaw's apprentices, and John had plans in place so that Jill would not be suspected after his death.

Erickson and Perez continue their investigation. When they manage to reconstruct his voice, which sounds like Jigsaws, in Hoffman's presence, he slits Erickson's throat with a knife. Agent Perez shoots Hoffmann, who grabs the sound engineer, keeps her in the firing path, runs with the dead man towards Perez and stabs the knife in her body. He asks her who else knows about him, to her answer “the whole department” he replies “a lie”, then she sinks to the ground, dead. Hoffman Strahms then places fingerprints in the room and sets everything on fire, including Erickson, who is still a sign of life.

In addition to the six letters, there was an unlabeled envelope in the box that John's attorney gave Jill. Before Jill makes her way to the zoo, she stops at a clinic and throws the envelope with unknown contents in the mailbox of one of the clinic's offices.

When Hoffman returns to his observation room at the zoo, he is attacked by Jill. Jill received a copy of a letter from Pamela that he wrote to Amanda, which can be seen in Saw III . He knew she was responsible for the robbery on the clinic that resulted in Jill losing her baby and threatened to tell John if Amanda didn't kill Lynn Denlon. Jill ties Hoffman to a chair and attaches a kind of bear trap to his head , as was used in previous films in the series. She tells him that John's last assignment - in an envelope she didn't give him - was to "test" him. After she leaves him with no key to the trap, its timer begins its countdown. Hoffman uses the weight of the trap to break one of his hands and free himself from the bonds. He rams the front of the trap between the metal struts of a window in the door of the room. When the timer on the trap expires, it only opens slightly. Hoffman can pull his head out, tearing his right cheek, before the trap pops open completely.

Alternative ending

A 50-second scene was originally planned for the theatrical version, which should be shown after the end of the credits. In this scene Amanda can be seen after reading the letter from Saw III in which she was betrayed by Hoffman. She walks to the door of the room where Jeff's daughter Corbett is locked up and warns her not to trust the man who will save her. Amanda takes revenge on Hoffman by betraying him too. This scene is included on the Blu-Ray and DVD versions.

background

production

The pre-production began on 5 January 2009 and ended on March 29, 2009. The film was, like all the other films of the series of films - apart from Saw - in Toronto rotated. Filming began on March 30, 2009 and ended on May 13, 2009. Post-production ended on September 11, 2009 . David A. Armstrong , who was responsible for the camera in the five previous films, announced that this film would be the last part in which he would take over the camera work. Kevin Greutert was originally not supposed to be available for a sequel either, but eventually took over the direction of Saw 3D - completion .

publication

The film celebrated its world premiere on October 22, 2009 in Australia, New Zealand and Greece. The concept for publication was thus retained, because since the first part, each subsequent film has always been released one day earlier than the previous film in the following year. The film was first shown in Hollywood on October 22, 2009 at Mann's Chinese Theater. On October 23, 2009, the film ran in the United States and Canada, in some South American countries and in Europe, including the United Kingdom. On November 3, 2009, the film was shown at the Sainte Maxime International Horror Film Festival in France. The film was released in Germany on November 13, 2009.

On November 5, 2009, the director, scriptwriters and producers recorded the audio commentary for the director's cut. On June 6, 2009 the Director's Cut was completed. Kevin Greutert also announced that this cut version contains an additional scene in which Amanda can be seen. The DVD and Blu-ray versions were released in the USA on January 26, 2010 in three different editions, a so-called cinema full-screen edition with an R rating, and twice in the unrated director's cut , one of them in Widescreen format. All three versions contain DVD extras related to Jigsaw, the traps and a Halloween horror nights maze "Saw: Game Over". It also includes music videos from Mushroomhead , Memphis May Fire , Hatebreed and Suicide Silence .

Sales started in Germany on May 6, 2010. Both the unrated version and a heavily cut FSK-KJ version are available for purchase on DVD, while only the unrated version was released on Blu-Ray in Germany. In addition, Kinowelt published the Limited Unrated Collector's Edition with the unrated and the cinema version, all extras and a book section in the sleeve , as before for all Saw films . A few days before publication, however, both the Unrated Steelbook Edition and the Limited Unrated Collector's Edition were indexed on List A.

Financial success

The budget of the film is on eleven million US dollars estimated. On the opening weekend, the film grossed more than $ 14.1 million in the United States. So he played the lowest income in the series in the US on the opening weekend. In total, revenues in the USA amounted to over 27.4 million US dollars and in Germany to around four million US dollars. This part, as the financially most unsuccessful film in the film series, lagged far behind the previous films, all of which grossed more than 100 million US dollars worldwide.

Soundtrack

On November 6, 2009, the soundtrack for the film was released by Trustkill Records . It contains 18 songs.

No. title
1. In Ashes They Shall Reap
2. The Last Goodbye
3. Reckless abandon
4th The Very Many Few
5. Warpath
6th Code Of The Road
7th Genocide (Saw VI Remix)
8th. Ghost In The Mirror
9. The Countdown Begins
10. Still I Rise (Saw VI Remix)
11. Dead Again
12. Dark Horse
13. Cut throat
14th Never known
15th Roman Holiday
16. The Sinatra
17th Lethal injection
18th More Than A Sin

reception

“If we wrote in our review of“ Saw V ”that Costas Mandylor (Toxic) as Hoffman could not replace the real Jigsaw, the student now puts the master in the shade, at least in the sixth part. [...] Tobin Bell, on the other hand, appears as a jigsaw [...] toothless and not very scary. Of course, Jigsaw remains the face of the »Saw« series - but this part would hardly have lost anything without his efforts pressed into the script. [...] Conclusion: While the core of Williams' struggle for survival has fulfilled its duties as a torture thriller, »Saw 6« would have saved its flat comment on the capitalism crisis and the flashbacks that are typical of a franchise, but still extremely slowing down the film. "

- Christoph Petersen, film starts

“Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) just can't be killed. Even if the serial killer has already blessed the time in part 3 with moral standards, Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) continues to kill diligently on his behalf. While the follow-up films were nerve-racking attempts to keep the franchise alive with new protagonists, »Saw VI« again focuses on the great Tobin Bell with numerous flashbacks. Not only does Jigsaw's motivation become clearer, but also a large-scale master plan that makes the usual bloody game with perverse death traps exciting again - at least for those familiar with the old films. Conclusion: Part 6 of the infinite success shocker series shows an upward trend again. "

- Cinema

“As usual, the focus of the film is on the fascination of dismembered body parts and faces distorted by pain. Unlike its predecessor, SAW VI gets the viewer to turn on their brains and not just let themselves be filled with screaming actors covered in blood. Unfortunately, the story is often entangled with earlier events, so that at times you stand like the ox 'in front of the mountain if you haven't followed the series from the beginning. "

- Isabelle Buckow, Der Stern

“Kevin Greutert, editor of previous films, is mainly about to say goodbye to horror and return to more suspense and thrill. The narrative economy is also much better in this case, there is no tiring constant torment, but breaks. This time, the substantive background of this sixth variant of the SAW formula forms - probably not entirely coincidentally in line with Obama's efforts to reform the health system - the US health system and an unsympathetic employee of a health insurance company. When someone like that is tormented, many no longer need secret joy ... "

- Rüdiger Suchsland, Telepolis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Internet Movie Database : Background information
  2. ↑ Alternative end to Saw VI  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.blairwitch.de  
  3. ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  5. ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  6. ↑ Box Office Mojo.com: [1] , box office results Saw 6 Germany
  7. ↑ Filmstarts.de: review of «Saw 6»
  8. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  9. ↑ Stern : Review of «Saw 6»
  10. ↑ Heise.de: review of «Saw 6»