Tough Movie Trivia: Saw | 10 Questions

Answer: Three

There are Dr. Lawrence, played by Cary Elwes, Adam, played by Leigh Whannell and also John. John is one of Lawrence's patients at the hospital. Throughout the film we don't see much of him, and we see even less of his face. We think the body in the middle of the bathroom is dead.

However, later on we find out the body is alive, and it's John. He is the one responsible for all the terrible tortures. John is played by Tobin Bell.

Answer: Because he'd be in terrible agony, or dead by now.

Adam is so freaked out about waking up in the bathroom that he starts looking up and down his body, and lifting up his T-shirt. Dr. Lawrence starts looking at Adam in the most curious way.

Adam: "Can you see any scars?"
Lawrence: "What?"
Adam: "This is what they do man. They kidnap you and drug you. Before you know it you're lying in a bathtub and your kidneys are on eBay."
Lawrence: "No one has taken your kidneys."
Adam: "How can you tell from way over there?"
Lawrence: "Because you'd either be in terrible agony, or you'd be dead by now. Trust me."

We later find out that the person responsible for locking them up in this way, is someone the police have named The Jigsaw Killer. He's called this because he cuts out sections of his victims skin, in the shape of jigsaw puzzle pieces. The Jigsaw Killer is a patient of Lawrence's, who is a surgeon at a hospital. (This is how he knows nobody has taken Adams kidneys.) His patient has a brain tumour, and is trying to teach people to value life.

Answer: 10:20

We don't know, at this point, whether it is 10:20 at night, or in the morning. However, we later find out it is at night, because Alison and Diana are in bed when Zep ties them up in their house. He has also been set a task by the Jigsaw Killer. He has set up television screens and computers in their house so he can watch for when Adam is killed. So we know it is happening at the same time, and is therefore 10:20 at night. Adam and Lawrence are being held captive in a bathroom of an abandoned warehouse.

They look around the room when they first turn the lights on, and Lawrence notices the brand new clock. He realises that somebody wants them to know the time. Just after this, Adam and Lawrence find the tapes in their pockets. On Lawrence's tape, it says he has got until 6:00 to kill Adam.

This is the point that they, and the audience, realise the significance of the new clock in the bathroom.

Answer: PLAY ME

Both Lawrence and Adam find envelopes in their pockets, containing a selection of things. They both include a cassette tape. Lawrence's envelope also contains a single bullet and a tiny key. They spot a tape player, in the hand of the 'dead' man in the centre of the room between them. Adam plays his tape and we hear the voice on the tape talk about Adam, saying that he just sits around watching everyone else. Adam doesn't understand this. We find out that he is a photographer who is paid to follow people, and take pictures of them. Retired Detective Tapp hires him to follow Dr. Lawrence because Tapp is convinced Lawrence is the Jigsaw Killer.

Answer: Co-Writer

"Saw" is brilliantly written and performed, and has a magnificent twist at the end. It is one of the best horror films in years! Leigh Whannell co-wrote it with James Wan, who also directed it. Leigh Whannell plays Adam in this film.

Answer: He said he was ill but wasn't really.

In a flashback, we hear the recording on the tape found in the room with Marks burnt body. It starts with, "Hello Mark. If you're so sick, then why do I have so many photos of you up and about?" We see a man in a small room, with no clothes on, covered in some kind of greasy, flammable substance.

There is a safe in the room and thousands of possible combinations of numbers written all over the walls. There is a candle in the room, which was his only source of light, so he had to carry it around with him.

This is how he burnt to his death. The only person to survive the Jigsaw Killers attack was Amanda, the drug addict. It was of course, Lawrence who was thought to be having an affair, and Paul who cut his wrists.

Answer: None

As we hear Dr. Lawrence say, "...technically speaking, he's...not really a murderer. He never killed anyone. He finds ways for his victims to kill themselves." I originally thought he killed Zep, with the "...slow acting poison..." in his veins. But in fact, Adam kills Zep with the toilet cistern lid at the end of the film, because he thinks Zep is the Jigsaw Killer.

However, after doing this, Adam finds a tape in Zep's pocket telling him he also has a task to do before he can get the antidote for the poison.

Then the 'dead' man who has been lying on the floor for, roughly, the past eight hours, stands up, and walks away. The audience, and Adam, at this point, realise he is the true Jigsaw Killer. The Jigsaw Killer walks away, and slams the door shut after saying, "Game over". Very scary.

Answer: Amanda

Amanda doesn't receive a cassette tape, but there is a television in the room where she is tied to a chair. The hideous white-faced puppet the Jigsaw Killer uses to represent himself comes on the television screen, and tells her about her situation. She has a kind of reverse bear trap on her head.

The Jigsaw Killer tells us that she has to get the key out of the stomach of her dead cell mate before the timer goes off and springs the trap, which would rip her jaw open, permanently. She goes ahead and looks for the key with the tiny knife provided.

She retrieves the key and gets the head trap off just in time.

Answer: A man

Diana goes into her mother's bedroom and says, "There's a man in my room. He talked to me." Alison thinks she has just had a bad dream, but says she will come and check her bedroom anyway. Later on we see Zep hiding in Diana's closet, just before he ties her and Alison up as his captives. We can only assume that Zep was in there earlier and the one who talked to Diana.

He holds them captive because, as we find out at the end, the Jigsaw Killer has set him a task too. He has to kill a wife and child, or he will be poisoned.

Answer: Detective Tapp

Danny Glover plays detective Tapp. He is a detective on the case of the Jigsaw Killer, along with young Detective Sing, played by Ken Leung. At one point, Tapp has the Jigsaw Killer at gunpoint. Unfortunately, the Jigsaw Killer has a large knife up the sleeve of the hooded robe he is wearing. (This conceals his identity of course!) The Jigsaw Killer cuts Tapp's throat, and runs off.

He does not die, and we see him later on, with a massive scar across his neck. This is how Adam identifies him as the person who hired him to follow Lawrence.

He says "He was a big black guy, with a scar on his neck." Lawrence knows all about Tapp, because he accused Lawrence of the killings. Danny Glover was also in "The Royal Tenenbaums", in 2001, and he provided the voice for the animated film "Antz", in 1998, for the character Barbatus.