Additional information for Saw V, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 24, 2008. The film is being distributed by Lionsgate and has not yet been rated. Saw V has a total running time of 92 minutes.
Unrated
USA
18
UK
R
Australia
R21
Singapore
18
Ireland
18+
Canada
R18
New Zealand
III
Hong Kong
-16
France
18
Norway
16
Argentina
18
Brazil
KNT
Belgium
M/18
Portugal
18
Switzerland
15
Sweden
18
South Korea
R-15
Japan
Not Rated
Germany
16
Netherlands
16LV
South Africa
R-18
Philippines
K-18
Finland
16
Austria
18
Iceland
(Banned)
Malaysia
VM14
Italy
92min
95min
El juego del miedo V
Argentina
El juego del miedo V
Mexico
El juego del miedo V
Venezuela
Saw V
France
Saw V
Greece
Пила 5
Russia
Décadence V
Canada
El juego del miedo 5
Peru
Fűrész 5.
Hungary
Jogos Mortais 5
Brazil
Pila V
Poland
Saag V
Estonia
Saw 5 - A Sucessão
Portugal
Saw V - Non crederai ai tuoi occhi
Italy
Slagalica strave 5
Croatia
Testera 5
Serbia
Testere V
Turkey
October 23, 2008
Australia
October 23, 2008
Puerto Rico
October 23, 2008
Slovenia
October 24, 2008
Canada
October 24, 2008
Ireland
October 24, 2008
Ireland
October 24, 2008
Panama
October 24, 2008
Poland
October 24, 2008
Taiwan
October 24, 2008
Turkey
October 24, 2008
UK
October 24, 2008
USA
October 24, 2008
Venezuela
October 30, 2008
Argentina
October 30, 2008
Croatia
October 30, 2008
Czech Republic
October 30, 2008
Greece
October 30, 2008
Hong Kong
October 30, 2008
New Zealand
October 30, 2008
Portugal
October 30, 2008
Russia
October 30, 2008
Singapore
October 31, 2008
Brazil
October 31, 2008
Bulgaria
October 31, 2008
Colombia
October 31, 2008
Denmark
October 31, 2008
Estonia
October 31, 2008
Finland
October 31, 2008
Latvia
October 31, 2008
Lithuania
October 31, 2008
Mexico
October 31, 2008
Netherlands
November 05, 2008
France
November 05, 2008
Switzerland
November 06, 2008
Ukraine
November 07, 2008
Sweden
November 14, 2008
Norway
November 14, 2008
Romania
November 14, 2008
Spain
November 20, 2008
Kazakhstan
November 20, 2008
United Arab Emirates
November 28, 2008
Japan
December 04, 2008
Chile
December 04, 2008
South Korea
December 05, 2008
Italy
December 11, 2008
Thailand
December 12, 2008
Iceland
December 17, 2008
Belgium
January 07, 2009
Egypt
January 08, 2009
Hungary
January 08, 2009
Netherlands
January 09, 2009
Ecuador
January 15, 2009
Austria
January 15, 2009
Germany
January 15, 2009
Slovakia
January 15, 2009
Switzerland
January 16, 2009
South Africa
January 28, 2009
Philippines
January 29, 2009
Peru
February 26, 2009
Lebanon
March 13, 2009
Uruguay
July 16, 2009
Israel
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Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman, the final apprentice to the serial killer is deigned a hero. Meanwhile, Agent Strahm continues to track Hoffman while another group of strangers are put through a series of gruesome traps.
The film starts with Seth in the pendulum trap. It is revealed Seth is a murderer who was released early from prison due to a technicality. Seth is told by Jigsaw's puppet that if he wants to live he has to destroy the things he has used to kill-his hands.The trap is later revealed to be unwinnable, but Seth is made to believe that the aim of the trap is for him to push buttons inside of two devices which would crush both of his hands before a bladed pendulum (intended to slice him in half) descends upon him. Seth had in fact, crushed his hands, but as the trap is unwinnable, the Pendulum does not stop. From the side of the room, somebody watches Seth getting sliced in half through a Peep hole.Meanwhile, Agent Strahm shoots Jeff and enters the room where Jigsaw died. After investigating and finding Jigsaw's corpse, the door is locked on Strahm by Hoffman. Strahm finds a hidden door in the room and kicks it open. The outlines of the door had been painted with glow in the dark paint, only visible in the dark. The door leads down a new hallway. Strahm finds a tape recorder and plays it. Jigsaw's voice addresses him on the recording and warns him not to proceed, but to stay where he is, stating that he can find salvation or let his "insatiable hunger to uncover the truth drive (him) deeper in the abyss." Jigsaw urges him to make the right choice. Strahm disregards the warning and leaves the room, walking down the hallway. He is soon attacked by a figure in a pig mask, presumably Hoffman. He wakes to find himself in one of Jigsaw's traps. His head is in a sealed box, which quickly starts to fill with water. Before he runs out of air, he performs a tracheotomy with the tube of a ballpoint pen in order to breathe. The police make it to the Gideon warehouse, and Hoffman emerges carrying Corbett, claiming that he saved her. Strahm is carried out on a stretcher, still alive, but badly injured.The next day the police hold a service for all the people who have died chasing Jigsaw. The Chief of Police announces that the Jigsaw murders are over and promotes Hoffman. John Kramer's ex-wife, Jill is given a videotape and box from John's lawyer. The contents of the box, says John, are of grave importance to her. After looking in the box, Jill leaves without telling John's lawyer what's inside. Later she meets Agent Erickson, Strahms boss, and informs him she believes Agent Strahm is following her.Strahm is shown mourning next to a empty hospital bed, because Perez died in the night. Agent Erickson, Strahm's boss visits Strahm telling him he has taken him off the Jigsaw case. Strahm is dismayed and angered. Hoffman walks into the room. Strahm starts to act suspicious and says that Perez's final word was "Hoffman." Hoffman worriedly says he has no idea what Strahm is talking about. He heads back to his office and finds a note for him saying "I know who you are." Hoffman gets worried that his secret is threatened, and that he may be in danger. Later, Hoffman heads off to a lair where several monitors are placed on a table, depicting five unconcious people on the first monitor.Meanwhile, the five people wake up in a sewer, in a neck tie trap. They are told by Jigsaw's puppet that "Five will become one, with the common goal of survival." He states that while their "lifelong instincts will tell you to react one way, I implore you to do the opposite." The first part of their test involves pulling against a cable to get a key at the end of the room to release themselves. The consequence for not completing the trap is to be beheaded. They deduce they need to work quickly as nail bombs are set to go off in the room once the timer counts down. Mallick gets anxious and runs ahead, starting the timer. In the end, everyone, except for Ashley, gets their keys. Ashley is eventually beheaded by the blade once the cable is pulled tight. The group walks through a door to the next room.Strahm, contemplating what his deceased partner said, heads over to FBI headquarters to find files on Hoffman. He finds a file saying that Hoffman's sister was murdered, and her killer (Seth) was killed in his trap, which was revealed to have taken place before the events of the first film. Strahm comes to the conclusion that Hoffman killed Seth, but staged it as a Jigsaw trap. Hoffman designed and orchestrated the trap himself using a voice modulator to disguise his voice as Jigsaw's and designed his own puppet to deliver Seth's message. A flashback depicting Hoffman looking at the pendulum trap ensues, as he was the person watching at the start of the film. Some time after Seth's death, Hoffman is kidnapped by Jigsaw who has discovered who was truly responsible for Seth's death. Jigsaw scolds Hoffman and blackmails him into working for him, which Hoffman reluctantly agrees to. Hoffman is then shown, through flashbacks, setting up the house trap, talking to Jigsaw before the events of "Saw IV", and kidnapping Paul. After watching Paul fail his trap through a peephole, Jigsaw gives Hoffman Dr. Gordon's penlight, which he would later plant at Mark's crime scene. Logic reveals that there must have been at least one Jigsaw victim, unknown to the viewers, tested before Paul, where the puppet was used. That way, Hoffman and the authorities would know of the puppet, and Hoffman could use it for Seth's trap. By the end of these events, Hoffman is a willing apprentice to Jigsaw.Back in the sewers, Charles, Mallick, Luba, and Brit make it to the next trap. In this trap, the group has to smash jars filled with glass to find keys to enter bomb shelters before a bomb goes off in the sewer. There are four bomb shelters, but only three of the keys will fit the locks. Jigsaw's puppet tells the group to decide which of them will be "the odd man out." Mallick begins to smash the jars with a pole. Charles beats Mallick with a pole down to the ground, with the intent of sacrificing Mallick's life so the rest can escape to safety. Brit and Luba pick up keys. Mallick attempts to pick up a key but Charles steps on his hand and takes it. Just as Charles is about to enter his shelter, Luba hits him with a pole and gives the key back to Mallick. The trio enter the shelter and leave Charles to die by the explosion. Luba, Mallick, and Brit make it to their next test. In this test, they have to find a way for five cords of electricity to make it into a bath of water to complete a circuit opening the door to the next test. However, the cords are not long enough to reach the bath water so they think they need to use a person's body as an electrical conductor. Luba tries to kill Mallick to use his body, but Brit stabs Luba in the neck, saying she never trusted her. Mallick and Brit use Luba's body for the electricity to reach the bath, and the door opens to their final test.Meanwhile, Hoffman steals Strahm's cell phone from the evidence locker and plants it at the house where Brit and Mallick's game is being held, in hopes to frame him. Strahm is now sure that Hoffman is Jigsaw's apprentice. Meanwhile, Brit and Mallick make it to their final test. In this test they have to stick their hands in rotating saws and bleed into a beaker. When the beaker fills with the labeled volume of their blood, the door to the room will unlock and they will be free to go. Before they start the test they realize that there are five saws and five openings on the contraption, for which to stick arms into. They then realize that everyone could have made it through every test alive. Only one key was needed to unlock each neck restraint in the first trap, the bomb shelters had room for two in the second trap, and each person could have sustained a mild electric shock to complete the circuit in the third trap. It is also revealed that they were all connected by an act of arson that happened some time ago which resulted in the death of 8 people. In the final test, each could have given just two pints of blood and easily lived. Brit and Mallick realize the aim of their game was to work together and to help keep all five alive, unlike "survival of the fittest", as they had all thought. With no other options, the two remaining survivors begin sawing their arms in an attempt to fill the beaker meant for five with 10 pints of their blood. Just as Brit and Mallick fill the beaker with blood, finishing the final test, a FBI agent named Erickson (Strahm's superior whom Hoffman fooled into trailing Strahm's cell phone signal) arrives at the scene. Both pass out from blood loss as Erickson finds them and calls for backup. It appears as though Brit survived and Mallick did not. FBI agent Erickson, having found the Jigsaw files Hoffman planted, along with Strahm's cell phone, issues an APB on Strahm, assuming him to be the other Jigsaw accomplice.Strahm follows Hoffman to a new location, possibly Hoffman's house. It is revealed that the house is the same one from Saw II where the group game took place. The house has since been refurbished and made liveable. Strahm follows Hoffman into the house and finds the trap door leading to the underground structure of the house. Passing the bathroom, its door sealed closed, Strahm finds a new room and enters it. Inside the room is a transparent box filled with broken glass and a recording featuring Hoffman's voice, rather than Jigsaw's. Hoffman urges Strahm to have trust and to get into the box. He'll be hurt, but has a chance at life. Strahm shuts off the tape when he hears Hoffman walking in the distance behind him. Strahm hides behind the door and shortly after, Hoffman walks into the room while Strahm approaches Hoffman from behind, holding him at gunpoint. Following an altercation, Strahm shoves Hoffman into the box, sealing him in. Hoffman signals for Strahm to play the rest of the tape. The rest of the tape plays and explains the rest of the rules to Strahm, making him realize he would have lived if he had gotten into the box, stating that if he wouldn't, the room would become his tomb, and he would simply "vanish". Jigsaw's tape addressing Strahm at the beginning of the film was not referring to the "sick room", but the current one. The walls begin to close in on the room as the glass box lowers into the floor, safe from the enclosing walls. Strahm attempts to break into the glass box by shooting it and trying to pull it open, but the glass material is impenetrable. Strahm starts shouting at Hoffman, "I know who you are!". Soon the walls come close enough for Strahm to attempt to climb up to the ceiling and escape by the roof filter. However, it is too late, and he becomes slowly crushed by the walls while Hoffman watches Strahm getting crushed from down below. With all evidence planted to frame Strahm for being the next Jigsaw accomplice, Hoffman is now able to continue his work as Jigsaw's surviving apprentice, undetected, leaving the Jigsaw legacy pinpointed at Strahm who is in fact dead.It is also believed that Jigsaw's autopsy occured after the events of Saw V, giving new insight to Hoffman being "the last man standing", now that Strahm is dead. Therefore, Hoffman has yet to be tested as promised by the tape found at the autopsy. The beginning/end of Saw IV was not the setup for Saw V but presumably (and hopefully) Saw VI.
David Hackl
Director(s)
Patrick Melton
Marcus Dunstan
Writer(s)
Troy Begnaud
associate producer
Peter Block
executive producer
Mark Burg
producer
Jason Constantine
executive producer
Daniel J. Heffner
executive producer (as Daniel Jason Heffner)
Gregg Hoffman
producer
Oren Koules
producer
Stacey Testro
executive producer
James Wan
executive producer
Leigh Whannell
executive producer
Producer(s)
Charlie Clouser
Composer(s)
Jigsaw / John
Tobin Bell
Mark Hoffman
Costas Mandylor
Agent Strahm
Scott Patterson
Jill
Betsy Russell
Brit
Julie Benz
Luba
Meagan Good
Dan Erickson
Mark Rolston
Charles
Carlo Rota
Mallick
Greg Bryk
Ashley
Laura Gordon
Seth
Joris Jarsky
Paul
Mike Butters
Chief of Police
Al Sapienza
Detective Fisk
Mike Realba
Bernie
Jeff Pustil
Law Office Receptionist
Dana Sorman
Special Agent Cowan
Sheila Shah
Pamela Jenkins
Samantha Lemole
Rigg (archive footage)
Lyriq Bent
Agent Perez (archive footage)
Athena Karkanis
Art (archive footage) (as Justin Louis)
Louis Ferreira
Eric Matthews (archive footage)
Donnie Wahlberg
David Tapp (archive footage)
Danny Glover
Amanda (archive footage)
Shawnee Smith
Lynn (archive footage)
Bahar Soomekh
Corbett
Niamh Wilson
Jeff (archive footage)
Angus Macfadyen
EMT
Lisa Berry
Officer
Bill Vibert
Gus
Tony Nappo
Hank
Brandon McGibbon
Obi
Tim Burd
Heather Miller (scenes deleted)
Natalie Brown
Person with Dog
Quancetia Hamilton
Old Woman
Lorraine Foreman
Angelina
Sarah Power
Jasmine (scenes deleted)
Cory Lee
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
David Gale
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Catherine Rix
Additional Voice Talent (voice) (as Michael Miranda)
Michael A. Miranda
Director(s)
Marcus Dunstan
Writer(s)
associate producer
Peter Block
executive producer
Mark Burg
producer
Jason Constantine
executive producer
Daniel J. Heffner
executive producer (as Daniel Jason Heffner)
Gregg Hoffman
producer
Oren Koules
producer
Stacey Testro
executive producer
James Wan
executive producer
Leigh Whannell
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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