Taglines: The Traps Come Alive.
Brad and Ryan wake up in a metropolitan storefront window in front of a growing crowd of people. Each man is bound at the wrists to opposite sides of a work table with a circular saw in front of them, and Dina, their mutual lover, is suspended above a third saw. As police attempt to rescue them, the men are informed by Jigsaw’s puppet that someone will die in one minute. They initially fight each other, during which Brad is cut by the saw, but, after realizing Dina’s betrayal, they allow her to die instead.
Having witnessed Mark Hoffman’s survival, Jill Tuck goes to Matt Gibson, an internal affairs detective at Hoffman’s precinct, and incriminates him in exchange for protection and immunity from prosecution. Meanwhile, Hoffman abducts a skinhead gang – Dan, Evan, Jake, and Kara – and places them in a junkyard trap that kills all of them.
He leaves the reverse bear trap at the scene to incriminate Jill, who Gibson puts in protective custody. After a gathering of game survivors – including Lawrence Gordon, who cauterized his leg after escaping the bathroom – Hoffman abducts Bobby Dagen, a self-help guru who falsified a story of his own survival for fame and fortune. Hoffman brings him to an abandoned asylum, and sends Gibson videos with cryptic clues to the game’s location, promising to end the games if Jill is handed over to him.
Dagen awakens in a cage and is informed that his wife Joyce was also abducted and will die if he doesn’t save her within sixty minutes. Joyce is chained at the neck to a steel platform that gradually pulls her closer to the ground, while watching Bobby’s progress through several screens. After escaping the cage, which dangles over a floor of spikes, Dagen begins searching for Joyce. Along the way, he finds Nina, his publicist; Suzanne, his lawyer; and Cale, his closest friend and co-conspirator. All three are in separate traps representing the three wise monkeys and are killed despite his efforts to save them.
After getting through a security door, the combination to which was imprinted on his upper wisdom teeth, he finds Joyce and is forced to reenact the trap he claimed to survive: he must drive two hooks through his pectoral muscles and hoist himself up to the ceiling to deactivate her trap. He fails and is forced to watch as a brazen bull capsule closes around Joyce and incinerates her.
Saw 3D (also known as Saw: The Final Chapter, or simply Saw VII)[3] is a 2010 American 3D horror film directed by Kevin Greutert, written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, and starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery and Cary Elwes. It is the seventh (and originally intended final) installment of the Saw franchise, and the only film in the series to be in 3D.
The film focuses on a man who falsely claims to be a Jigsaw survivor, becoming a local celebrity. However, he soon finds himself part of a real Jigsaw game where he must ultimately save his wife. Meanwhile, Jill Tuck reveals to an internal affairs officer that rogue Detective Mark Hoffman is the man responsible for the recent Jigsaw games, and Hoffman hunts her down.
An eighth installment was planned, but the decrease in the box office performance for Saw VI compared to previous installments led to Saw 3D being the final planned film in the series, and the plot concept for Saw VIII being incorporated into Saw 3D. Saw V director David Hackl was to direct the film, but two weeks before filming Lionsgate announced that Greutert, who directed the sixth film, would direct. Principal photography took place in Toronto, Ontario from February to April 2010 and was shot with the SI-3D digital camera system, as opposed to shooting with traditional cameras and later transferring to 3D in post-production.
Saw 3D was originally scheduled to be released in the United States and Canada on October 22, 2010, but was pushed back a week from its original release date of October 22, 2010, to October 29, 2010; it was released a day earlier in the United Kingdom and Australia. Saw 3D opened at number one making over $22.5 million. It was eventually followed by an eighth film, Jigsaw, in 2017.
Saw 3D had preview screenings on October 28, 2010, in 2,000 locations and made $1.7 million. It opened in wide release the following day in 2,808 locations playing on 3,500 screens, the second smallest release behind the first Saw. The film earned $8,976,000 on its opening day, taking the number one spot from Paranormal Activity 2.
It grossed $22,530,123 its opening Halloween weekend, with 92% of tickets coming from more than 2,100 3D-equipped locations and 57% of the audience being under the age of 25.[69][70] It had the fifth best opening weekend in the Saw series. After only four days of wide release, Saw 3D had out-grossed Saw VI’s $27.7 million final domestic gross. On its second weekend, the film dropped 66% in ticket sales and made $7.7 million, moving to the number five spot with Megamind taking its number one spot.[74] Saw 3D closed on December 2, 2010, after 35 days of release in the United States and Canada.
Saw 3D opened in 25 territories with $14.4 million (including preview screenings) placing first place in the United Kingdom (UK) with $5.8 million, beating Saw III’s $4.7 million UK opening. It opened in second place in Russia with $2.2 million; Australia and Japan grossed $909,000 and $864,800, respectively.
Saw 3D grossed $12.8 million in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta; $10.9 million in Germany; $7 million in Italy; $5.3 million in Russia; and $2.4 million in Australia. The film has grossed $45.7 million in the United States and Cinema of Canada, with $90.4 million in other markets, for a worldwide total of $136.1 million. This makes Saw 3D the highest-grossing film in the series in the foreign market. Also, it made more than double the amount of the previous installment Saw VI and is the most successful film in the franchise since Saw IV.
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Saw 3D – The Final Chapter (2010)
Directed by: Kevin Greutert
Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Gina Holden, Betsy Russell, Tanedra Howard, Sean Patrick Flanery, Naomi Snieckus, Anne Lee Greene, Rebecca Marshall, James Van Patten, Laurence Anthony
Screenplay by: Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton
Production Design by: Anthony A. Ianni
Cinematography by: Brian Gedge
Film Editing by: Andrew Coutts
Costume Design by: Alex Kavanagh
Set Decoration by: Liesl Deslauriers
Art Direction by: Peter Grundy
Music by: Charlie Clouser
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: October 29, 2010