• Friday, October 28, 2005

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  93 min

2005

Goofs

• Continuity: When Matthews' friend, Michael, is watching the puppet explain his situation on TV at the beginning of the movie, the channel indicator on the television keeps changing from displaying channel 3 in one shot to being covered up with duct tape in the next.
• Continuity: Rigg's earpiece disappears between shots.
• Continuity: When they discover Obi's envelope, the knife's position on the envelope shifts between shots.
• Continuity: When Detective Eric Mathews meets John his badge is normal. A few moments into the scene it becomes twisted and when it cuts to John then back to Eric after a second the badge is normal.
• Continuity: The pool of blood from Gus's gunshot wound changes when Daniel goes to put the coat over his head.
• Continuity: When the Tech Team arrives you can see the clock as the detective is destroying Jigsaws work saying 8:00. It had been seen earlier in the movie saying it was almost 8:30.
• Continuity: When the SWAT team have their guns aimed at Jigsaw's heart (just after Matthews says "Hey - is this close enough?", we can see three laser guides on his chest. Then one of the SWAT team members points his gun down, but there are still three laser guides on Jigsaw's heart. Seconds later there are two lasers, then three again.

Taglines

• We Dare You Again...
• New game. Different pieces.
• Oh, yes. There will be blood.
• Das Spiel geht weiter... (The game continues)

Trivias

• The advertising posters for the film had to be recalled on orders from the MPAA because the two severed fingers forming the "II" in the posters did not meet guidelines for film advertising. The new poster makes it more obscure. Also, posters had listed the film as being rated R when at the time the film still hadn't gone before the MPAA for a rating.
• This film originally came from a script by the director Darren Lynn Bousman which was called "The Desperate". After trying for years to get it made but being told repeatedly that it was too violent, finally a company wanted to do it because they suspected Saw (2004) which was becoming a hit at Sundance might blow out big and they wanted to capitalize on its success. Some producers even described Bousman's script as "too Saw-ish". Just before he was about to close a deal to make the movie, Saw (2004) opened huge at the box-office and the next day he received a call, and the producers asked if he could change it around to "Saw 2". Leigh Whannell (who wrote the first "Saw") was then brought on a little later to help Bousman with creating his original idea into a proper sequel to Saw (2004).
• It took around 120,000 syringes to complete the needle pit sequence.
• When Danny takes out the syringes from Amanda's arm, the crew used a fake animatronic arm.
• When Obi popped out of the furnace he hit Glenn Plummer's (Jonas's) eye. They had to stop filming for half an hour to make sure he was okay. He can be seen turned around in one shot, and holding his eye in another.
• Shawnee Smith was pregnant during filming, but kept it a secret from everyone, including the director and producers. Her daughter gave the secret away one day during lunch, but only to the director/writer Darren Lynn Bousman.
• Most of the actors were not given the last 25 pages of the script in order to conceal the ending. Only the principal actors involved in the sequence knew.
• It took four days for four people to replace all of the needle tips with fiber tips for the needle pit scene.
• Jigsaw's puppet was originally controlled by fishing line (in Saw (2004)). This time around, the crew had a slightly larger budget and decided to completely redo the puppet and make it mechanically controlled.

Awards

1. DGC Craft Award
   Event: Directors Guild of Canada
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Outstanding Sound Editing - Feature Film
   Recipient(s): Rob Bertola
2. Chainsaw Award
   Event: Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Villain
   Recipient(s): Tobin Bell
3. MTV Movie Award
   Event: MTV Movie Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Villain
   Recipient(s): Tobin Bell