Saw II (2005) on Netflix
Eight people, including Detective Eric Matthews's son Daniel, are trapped in a house filling with nerve agent. The Jigsaw Killer gives Eric two hours and a set of rules to follow.
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Plot summary
Detective Eric Matthews joins Detective Allison Kerry at the scene of a murder that carries the Jigsaw Killer's methods. A factory lock leads a SWAT team to John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer, and the officers bring him in. On monitors in the factory, Kramer shows Eric eight people trapped in a house: Amanda Young, Eric's son Daniel, and six others. The house is filling with a nerve agent that will kill them within two hours. Kramer promises Eric that if he plays by the rules, Daniel will be found safe. Kerry urges Eric to buy time for a tech team to trace the video signal while he tries to get more from Kramer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Saw II (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Darren Lynn Bousman had written a script called The Desperate that studios rejected for being too much like Saw. Saw cinematographer David A. Armstrong passed it to producer Gregg Hoffman, and Hoffman, Mark Burg and Oren Koules turned the rejected script into Saw II rather than accuse its author of plagiarism.
- To keep the ending secret, only the cast and crew involved in it saw a full script; everyone else got the first 88 pages, rewritten pages were shredded, confidentiality agreements were signed, and reportedly four or five alternate endings were filmed.
- For the Needle Pit trap, in which Shawnee Smith's character Amanda digs through syringes for a key, the crew spent four days modifying 120,000 syringes, swapping metal tips for fiber optic points, then padded the pit out with styrofoam. The needles that appeared to pierce Smith were blunted and pinned to padding under her clothes.
- The Billy puppet that James Wan had built for the first film out of paper towel rolls and papier-mache was rebuilt for the sequel with remote-controlled eyes and a servo-driven mouth.
- Lyriq Bent auditioned to play the drug dealer Xavier but was moved to Daniel Rigg to avoid an African-American stereotype. Henry Rollins then accepted Xavier and dropped out over scheduling, and the part went to Franky G, which Bent thought was a stereotype of its own.
- The first teaser poster, two bloody severed fingers forming the Roman numeral II, was rejected by the MPAA after it had already circulated, so Lionsgate pulled it from their websites and used the image as the soundtrack cover instead.
- For the Hand Trap, Emmanuelle Vaugier's character Addison puts her hands into a glass box and retractable razor blades close on them; the prop's cuffs and blades actually retracted away from the actress. Designer David Hackl later admitted the box had a visible lock and key on the other side that would have opened it.
- The Furnace Trap set was built in three days from cement board and tin with removable sides so Timothy Burd could be filmed crawling inside, and Bousman planned his camera angles on a computer model. Real flames were used, with a stunt performer coated in fire-retardant gel standing in for Burd.
