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Credits | |
Title: | Saw II |
Directed by: | Darren Lynn Bousman |
Written by: | Leigh Whannell; Darren Lynn Bousman |
Produced by: | Peter Block; Jason Constantine; Stacey Testro; James Wan; Leigh Whannell; Mark Burg; Greg Copeland; Daniel Jason Heffner; Gregg Hoffman; Oren Koules |
Music by: | Charlie Clouser |
Cinematography: | David A. Armstrong |
Edited by: | Kevin Greutert |
Production | |
Distributors: | Twisted Pictures; Evolution Entertainment; Saw Productions, Inc. |
Released: | October 28th, 2005 |
Rating: | R |
Running time: | 93 min. |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $4,000,000 |
Gross: | $147,739,965 |
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Previous: | Saw |
Next: | Saw III |
Plot[]
Cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Tobin Bell | Jigsaw/John Kramer |
Shawnee Smith | Amanda Young |
Donnie Wahlberg | Eric Matthews |
Erik Knudsen | Daniel Matthews |
Franky G. | Xavier Chavez |
Glenn Plummer | Jonas Singer |
Emmanuelle Vaugier | Addison Corday |
Beverley Mitchell | Laura Hunter |
Timothy Burd | Obi Tate |
Dina Meyer | Detective Allison Kerry |
Lyriq Bent | Daniel Rigg |
Noam Jenkins | Michael Marks |
Tony Nappo | Gus Colyard |
Kelly Jones | SWAT member Pete |
Vincent Rother | SWAT member Joe |
Linette Robinson | Mother in cancer ward |
Gretchen Helbig | Nurse in cancer ward |
Kofi Payton | Boy in cancer ward |
John Fallon | Video techie |
Ho Chow | Security officer |
James Gallanders | Additional voice talent |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline for this film is "New Game. Different Pieces". Another tagline is "Oh yes... there will be blood".
- Production on Saw II began on February 28th, 2005. Pre-production work concluded on May 1st, 2005. Principal filming commenced on May 2nd, 2005 and wrapped on June 6th, 2005. The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- The full and widescreen editions of Saw II was released to DVD by Lions Gate Entertainment on February 14th, 2006. The unrated two-disc special edition was released by Lions Gate on October 24th, 2006. The film is also included on The Saw Trilogy DVD boxset collection.
- A scene with a descending elevator is actually taken from the 2000 scif-fi thriller Hollow Man.
- On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Saw II holds a Tomatometer score of 38% based on 123 critic reviews. It has 47 positive reviews and 76 negative reviews. The film has a Popcornmeter score of 59% based on more than 250,000 user ratings, averaging 3.2 out of 5. There is a variance of 21% between the Tomatometer Score and the Audience Score.
- On The Movie Database (TMDB), Saw II has a user score of 66%.
- Actor Erik Knudsen would later go on to star as Robbie Mercer in Scream 4.
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