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Saw: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying.
Saw II: Jigsaw is back and this time he has locked some very unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter. They must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But this brilliant, but disturbed mastermind has left plenty of the traps in the shelter that lead to death also. Now the unlucky are in for a round of horrifying life-or-death games.
Saw III: Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
Saw IV: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. But when the news of Detective Kerry's murder becomes public, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community. There, they assist veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has only ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend. If he doesn't, he will face deadly consequences.
Saw V: Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman becomes the final apprentice to the serial killer and is deigned a hero. Meanwhile, Agent Strahm is tested and puts the pieces together. While Strahm realizes that Hoffman is helping Jigsaw, five seemingly unconnected people are kidnapped and forced to complete a series of tasks in order to survive. Strahm follows all the leads that Hoffman gives him, including information on the death of his sister and why he joined Jigsaw. Hoffman and Strahm circle each other until it boils down to a gruesome and bone-crushing finale.
Saw VI: William Easton is an oily executive who denies John Kramer (a.ka. Jigsaw) access to an experimental cancer treatment. This lands William and a handful of additional lost souls into yet another chamber of horrors. Now, the game is overseen by Jigsaw's acolyte, Detective Hoffman. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set his game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Saw : the final chapter: As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen. But Dagen hides his own dark secrets, ones that will unleash a wave of unrelenting terror and suffering.
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Originally released as a motion picture: Saw, 2004; Saw II, 2005; Saw III, 2006; Saw IV, 2007; Saw V, 2008; Saw VI, 2009; Saw : the final chapter, 2010.
Saw: produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg ; story by James Wan and Leigh Whannell ; written by Leigh Whannell ; directed by James Wan ; director of photography, David A. Armstrong ; editor, Kevin Greutert ; music, Charlie Clouser ; costume designer, Jennifer Soulages ; production designer, Julie Berghoff.
Saw II: produced by Mark Burg, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules ; written by Darren Lynn Bousman, Leigh Whannell ; directed by Darren Lynn Bousman ; director of photography, David A. Armstrong ; editor, Kevin Greutert ; music, Charlie Clouser ; costume designer, Alex Kavanagh ; production designer, David Hackl ; visual effects supervisor, Bret Culp ; special effects supervisor, Tim Good.
Saw III: produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg ; directed by Darren Lynn Bousman ; story by Leigh Whannell and James Wan ; screenplay by Leigh Whannell ; director of photography, David A. Armstrong ; editor, Kevin Greutert ; music by Charlie Clouser.
Saw IV: produced by Mark Burg, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules ; story by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan and Thomas Fenton ; screenplay by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan ; directed by Darren Lynn Bousman ; director of photography, David A. Armstrong ; editor, Kevin Greutert ; music, Charlie Clouser ; costume designer, Alex Kavanagh ; production designer, David Hackl ; visual effects supervisor, Jon Campfens.
Saw V: produced by Gregg Hoffman, Mark Burg, Oren Koules ; screenplay by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan ; directed by David Hackl ; directors of photography, David A. Armstrong, Matthew CooperKay ; editor, Kevin Greutert ; music, Charlie Clouser.
Saw VI: produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg ; screenplay, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan ; directed by Kevin Greutert ; music, Charlie Clouser.
Saw : the final chapter: produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg ; written by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan ; directed by Kevin Greutert.
Saw: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell, Makenzie Vega, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer, Benito Martinez, Leigh Whannell.
Saw II: Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Beverley Mitchell, Erik Knudsen, Lyriq Bent.
Saw III: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer, Costas Mandylor.
Saw IV: Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor, Lyriq Bent, Justin Louis, Athena Karkanis, Simon Reynolds, Donnie Wahlberg, Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith.
Saw V: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Julie Benz, Meagan Good, Mark Rolston, Carlo Rota, Greg Bryk, Laura Gordon, Joris Jarsky, Mike Butters.
Saw VI: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith, Peter Outerbridge, Athena Karkanis, Samantha Lemole, Tanedra Howard.
Saw : the final chapter: Betsy Russell, Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Chad Donella.
DVD, Region 1, widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1.
In English, with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
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