Saw IV (2007)
Category: Movies
Genre: Horror
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Screenplay by: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Story by: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, & Thomas H. Fenton
I absolutely love the consistency present in the Saw Series
Setting: A morgue. Saw IV opens with a pathologist mouthing the words into a portable recorder, “Subject’s name is John Kramer. 52 year old male; Caucasian. He’s seen better days.”
Word of caution boys and girls, I was eating a bowl of cereal as this was going on…learn from my mistake. Don’t!
After watching the SAW Trilogy, I have grown to admire the character of engineer John Kramer (played by actor Tobin Bell) and his twisted quest to provide others with a sense of realization as to the value of their existence. Sure, there are the ingenious “traps and tricks and plot twist” but who is really John Kramer? What was he prior to his days as the media christened Jigsaw? Did he have a family?
Saw IV gives us all the answers.
In an interview with Wizard Entertainment prior to the release of the aforementioned film, Bell gives fans some insight into his Kramer character.
“The world has changed and Jigsaw’s troubled by a lot of things. He has one foot in Nietzsche and the other foot in today’s New York Times, and then another foot in Jesus, and one more in Shakespeare. He listens to Mahler, Beethoven and Mozart.”
Bell added:
“So as long as we have writers and directors and the cast and crew that we’ve had…I mean, the crew is amazing. We’ve had the same director of photography since the first “Saw,” the same scenic designer since “Saw II,” the prop guys, gaffers, our sound guy, all those guys are the same guys. It’s just such a pleasure to work collaboratively with a team like that.”
Familiarity. Cohesion. Perspective. And a great product.
SAW IV has got to be synonymous with success.
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