Saw
2004 · Movie · R · 103 min · ★ 7.4 · 43% critics
Two strangers wake up chained in a filthy abandoned bathroom with no clear way out. As a cruel game unfolds through recorded instructions and scattered clues, they must confront fear, distrust, and desperate choices to survive.
Also known as Saw Unrated · Décadence
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Details
- Years
- 2004
- Release date
- 2004-10-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 43/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (10,077 votes)
- Box office
- $103,100,000
- Budget
- $1,200,000
About
You may like this if you enjoy bleak survival puzzles and tense horror-thrillers like Scream or Red Dragon; Not for you if grim rooms, pain, and nasty choices are too much.
Pros: tense mystery; memorable premise; strong dread | Cons: uneven acting; grim violence; abrasive style
Themes
- sadism
- shotgun
- detective
- flashback
- hospital
- doctor
- torture
- sadist
- survival horror
- chained
- bludgeoning
- death match
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Cast & crew
Tobin Bell
as John Kramer / Jigsaw
Cary Elwes
as Dr. Lawrence Gordon
Leigh Whannell
as Adam Radford
Danny Glover
as David Tapp
Monica Potter
as Alison Gordon
Ken Leung
as Detective Steven Sing
Makenzie Vega
as Diana Gordon
Michael Emerson
as Zep Hindle
Shawnee Smith
as Amanda Young
Dina Meyer
as Allison Kerry
Directed by James Wan