Mark Hoffman

Mark Hoffman is a fictional detective, serial killer and an antagonist featured in the Saw film franchise by Twisted Pictures. Played by actor Costas Mandylor, Hoffman appears as a minor character in Saw III before having his role expanded and becoming the main antagonist of Saw IV through Saw 3D as the successor to John Kramer's legacy.

Saw III
Hoffman appears briefly in this film, examining the crime scene of Troy along with Allison Kerry and Daniel Riggs.

Saw IV
Throughout this film, Hoffman is captured and placed in a trap alongside the missing Eric Matthews, who has been held in captivity since the events of Saw II with Art Blank presiding over the game. In the film's final act, both Eric and Art are killed due to the impatience of Daniel Riggs causing him to lose the game. Though Hoffman was told he would be electrocuted, he simply steps off the trap unharmed, revealed to be the third apprentice working for Jigsaw just as Peter Strahm had theorized earlier. The film ends with Hoffman locking the wounded Riggs in the room to die.

Saw V
In flashbacks, we learn that Hoffman killed his sister's ex-boyfriend Seth Baxter (who also murdered her) using an inescapable pendulum trap with Jigsaw's M.O. Hoffman is later captured on the elevator by John, who is aware of the imitation and blackmails Hoffman into becoming his apprentice and is revealed to have helped him in the traps seen in Saw and Saw II along with framing Lawrence Gordon as a suspect. In the present, Hoffman captures Strahm and places his head in an inescapable water box with the intent of drowning him and having Hoffman, along with Jeff Denlon's daughter Corbett emerging as the only survivors so he could be credited as a hero but Strahm survives the trap by giving himself a tracheotomy using his pen to open an airway to breathe. Hoffman also traps five strangers named Mallick, Luba, Charles, Ashley and Brit in a gauntlet of traps that is revealed everyone could have survived by working together instead of selfishly believing one person would die in each room.

Strahm begins investigating Hoffman while Hoffman sets Strahm up as the new apprentice. This ends with Strahm being led to the nerve gas house and finding a tape inside of the glass coffin John was seen constructing in Saw IV. Strahm chooses to not heed the warning and throws Hoffman inside of the coffin. Hoffman is safely lowered to the floor as Strahm plays the final part of the tape, revealing the coffin was safe and that now this room will be his tomb and he will be seen as the new Jigsaw. The walls contract and crush Strahm as Hoffman watches from the box.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of was created by writer/director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell.

Mark's victims
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