Saw V : Preview

Saw V is the fifth installment in the Saw film series. The film was released on October 23, 2008 in Australia, and October 24 in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Saw V was directed by David Hackl, unlike the previous three installments which were directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Hackl was the production designer of Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV, and second-unit director for Saw III and Saw IV.



A man named Seth (Joris Jarsky) is in a trap which has a pendulum blade suspended above his body. Seth was a murderer released early from a life sentence on a technicality. He is told to push buttons inside of two devices, his hands will be crushed but the pendulum will be stopped. Reluctantly he does push the buttons but the pendulum descends upon him regardless and cuts him in two, meaning the trap was inescapable, and therefore not one that had been set by Jigsaw (Tobin Bell).
In a scene from the end of Saw IV Agent Strahm (Scott Paterson) enters the room where Jigsaw died and shoots Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) dead in self-defence. Seconds later, someone locks the door on Strahm. He exits through a secret door, and finds a recorder. The recording warns him he can find salvation or die in the room, and urges him to make the right choice. He disregards it and is attacked by a figure in a pig mask. He wakes up in one of Jigsaw's traps and finds his head 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. The police make it to the Gideon warehouse, and Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) emerges carrying Corbett Reinhart (Niamh Wilson), claiming that he saved her. Strahm is carried out on a stretcher alive but badly injured. The Chief of Police announces that the Jigsaw murders are over. Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) 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.
Agent Perez (Athena Karkanis) dies from her wounds sustained from a Jigsaw trap in Saw IV, and Strahm tells Hoffman that her last words were his name. Strahm returns to his office and begins to investigate all of the victims linked to Jigsaw, discovering that Seth murdered Hoffman's sister and theorizing that the trap for Seth was made by Hoffman. Strahm guesses that Jigsaw used this fact to blackmail Hoffman into helping him, and in flashback we see Hoffman help Jigsaw set up Paul Stallberg (Mike Butters) in the razor wire trap in Saw, set up the gas house in Saw II, and talk with Jigsaw before leaving him with Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) and Amanda (Shawnee Smith) in Saw III.
Five people wake up in a sewer, in a trap connecting all five to guillotine blades, keys are in glass boxes at the other end of the room. Mallick (Greg Bryk) gets anxious and runs ahead, starting the timer. Charles (Carlo Rota) pulls the cord causing Mallick to fall to the ground. Mallick pulls the cable hard causing Ashley's (Laura Gordon) cable to pull her back. The timer runs out and Ashley is beheaded.
Charles, Mallick, Luba (Meagan Good) and Brit (Julie Benz) go through to the next room, which bombs are in the corners and they need to smash jars and find keys to enter bomb shelters before a bomb goes off in the sewer. Charles smashes all the jars after assaulting Mallick, he is about to enter his shelter when Luba hits him with a pole. The trio enter the shelters and Charles is blown up. Luba, Mallick, and Brit go through to the next room, they have to find a way to complete a circuit to open the door to the next test, but the cords they need to connect to a bath full of water are not long enough. Brit stabs Luba, then Mallick and Brit connect the wires and use her body to complete the circuit. The door opens to their final test.
For the final test they have to fill a beaker with ten pints of blood to open the final door. The traps have circular saws in and with no other options, Brit and Mallick begin sawing their hands in an attempt to fill the beaker with their blood. While this is happening Hoffman plants Strahm's cell phone at the house where the game is being held to frame him as Jigsaw's accomplice. As Brit and Mallick fill the beaker, Stahm's boss Erickson (Mark Rolston) makes it to the scene. Both pass out from blood loss as Erickson calls for backup.
FBI agent Erickson, having found the Jigsaw files Strahm took and his cell phone, issues an APB on Strahm, assuming him to be the other Jigsaw accomplice. Strahm follows Hoffman to the location of the current game, and enters a room with a transparent box filled with broken glass and a recording. It urges Strahm to have trust and to get into the box. He'll be hurt, but still has a chance at life. Hoffman walks into the room and Strahm ambushes him and pushes him into the glass box. The walls begins to close in on the room as the glass box lowers into the floor, safe from the enclosing walls. Strahm is slowly crushed by the walls while Hoffman watches from down below.