Saw III (2006)

Director:

Darren Lynn Bousman

Writers:

Leigh Whannell (story) and
James Wan (story) ...
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Release Date:

27 October 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Sometimes Rules Are Meant To Be Broken...

Plot:

Jigsaw kidnaps a doctor to keep him alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen through a brutal test.

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Brain Tumor | Revenge | Torture | Car Accident

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Tobin Bell	...	Jigsaw / John Kramer
Shawnee Smith	...	Amanda Young
Angus Macfadyen	...	Jeff
Bahar Soomekh	...	Lynn Denlon
Donnie Wahlberg	...	Eric Matthews
Dina Meyer	...	Kerry
Leigh Whannell	...	Adam
Mpho Koaho	...	Tim
Barry Flatman	...	Judge Halden
Lyriq Bent	...	Rigg
J. LaRose	...	Troy (as J Larose)
Debra McCabe	...	Danica (as Debra Lynne McCabe)
Costas Mandylor	...	Forensic Hoffman
Betsy Russell	...	Jill
Jane Luk	...	Nurse - Emergency Room
Stefan Georgiou	...	Dylan
Niamh Wilson	...	Corbett
Alan Van Sprang	...	Chris
Kim Roberts	...	Deborah
Brian Paul	...	Doctor #1
Zoe Heath	...	Female Forensic
Billy Parrott	...	Male Nurse
Dylan Trowbridge	...	Paramedic
Franky G	...	Xavier - Dead
Kelly Jones	...	SWAT Member Pete
Vincent Rother	...	SWAT Member Joe
Nicholas Kaegi	...	Young Boy
Mark Poyser	...	Gun Shot Victim (as Marc Poyser)
Tim Burd	...	Obi (as Timothy Burd)
Dan Sudek	...	Aftermath Cop
Bill Vibert	...	Cop
Sandy Kellerman	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Shauna Black	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Sean Sullivan	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Larry Yachimec	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Darrell Dennis	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Christopher Marren	...	Additional Voice Talent (voice) (as Chris Marren)

Directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman

Writing credits
Leigh Whannell		(story) and
James Wan		(story)
Leigh Whannell		(screenplay)

Produced by
Troy Begnaud	....	associate producer
Peter Block	....	executive producer
Mark Burg	....	producer
Jason Constantine	....	executive producer
Greg Copeland	....	co-producer
Daniel J. Heffner	....	executive producer (as Daniel Jason Heffner)
Gregg Hoffman	....	producer
Oren Koules	....	producer
Stacey Testro	....	executive producer
James Wan	....	executive producer
Leigh Whannell	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Charlie Clouser

Cinematography by
David A. Armstrong		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Kevin Greutert

Casting by
Stephanie Gorin

Production Design by
David Hackl

Art Direction by
Anthony A. Ianni

Set Decoration by
Liesl Deslauriers

Costume Design by
Alex Kavanagh

Makeup Department
Rachel Affolter	....	assistant makeup artist
Damon Bishop	....	prosthetics assistant
Chris Bridges	....	prosthetics assistant
François Dagenais	....	prosthetics makeup (as Francois Dagenais)
Sarah Fairbairn	....	key makeup artist
Kyle Glencross	....	prosthetics assistant
Stephanie Ingram	....	key hair stylist
Pamela Mills	....	assistant hair stylist
Neil Morrill	....	prosthetics assistant (as Neil Morril)

Production Management
Greg Copeland	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yolanda Graci	....	second assistant director
David Hackl	....	second unit director
Dominika Jurek	....	third assistant director
David C. Malcolm	....	third assistant director
Elizabeth Scherberger	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Paul Accadia	....	carpenter
Sam Agro	....	storyboard artist
Jeff Burden	....	carpenter
Carlo Cesta	....	painter
Steven Ciancamerla	....	set dresser
Frank Croft	....	painter
Jeff Flint	....	carpenter (as Geoff Flint)
Dwight Hendrickson	....	set designer
Grant Kilroy	....	carpenter
Takashi Komai	....	carpenter
Sylvia Lange	....	painter
Ron Lightfoot	....	construction coordinator
Jason Lunn	....	set dresser
Mario Moreira	....	assistant property master
James R. Murray	....	property master
Monique Roy	....	set buyer
Sean Scoffield	....	graphic designer
Adam Smith	....	specialty prop fabricator
Cherie Spencer	....	set dresser
Ercidio Tamayo	....	painter
Richelle Wilks	....	art department trainee
Michael Zaharuk	....	painter
John Galbraith	....	key scenic artist (uncredited)
Anthony Pearce	....	conceptual illustrator (uncredited)

Sound Department
Steve Baine	....	foley artist
Jeremy Balko	....	adr mixer
Tom Bjelic	....	sound effects editor
Keith Elliott	....	sound re-recording mixer
Mark Gingras	....	sound designer
Jamie Gould	....	sound re-recording assistant
Gina Gyles	....	foley assistant
Jamie Lucas	....	re-recording assistant
Matthew McKenzie	....	adr recordist
Colin McLellan	....	adr recordist
Rick Penn	....	sound mixer
Jason Perreira	....	sound re-recording assistant
Peter Persaud	....	foley recordist
John Douglas Smith	....	supervising sound editor
Andrew Tay	....	sound re-recording mixer
Marilee Yorston	....	foley assistant
Mark Zsifkovits	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Damon Bishop	....	special effects crew
Derek Bujalski	....	special effects technician
Tim Good	....	special effects coordinator
A. Scott Hamilton	....	pigs
Maya Kulenovic	....	pigs

Visual Effects by
David Alexander	....	senior CGI artist: Switch VFX
Don Asido	....	data manager: Switch VFX
Jon Campfens	....	visual effects supervisor
Bernadette Couture	....	dustbuster
Peter Denomme	....	visual effects producer: Switch VFX
Amir Eftekhari	....	digital compositor: Switch VFX
Amir Eftekhari	....	matte painter: Switch VFX
Genevieve Forte	....	digital artist
Gudrun Heinze	....	senior digital artist: Switch VFX
Dan Kelly	....	creative director
Louis Kim	....	digital compositor: Switch VFX
Yoga Kurniawan	....	playback animator
Jef Lonn	....	digital compositor: Switch VFX
Mag Sarnowska	....	dustbuster
Antonio Torres	....	digital artist: Pacific Title
Geoff Wigmore	....	digital compositor: Switch VFX

Stunts
C.J. Fidler	....	stunt double: Lynn (as C.J. Lusby)
Cotton Mather	....	stunt double: Jeff
Alison Reid	....	stunt coordinator
Alison Reid	....	stunt double: Amanda
Bryan Renfro	....	stunt double: Judge Halden

Camera and Electrical Department
Eric Beaulieu	....	second assistant camera
Ira Cohen	....	gaffer
Stephen Crone	....	video assist
Dennis Daigle	....	lighting technician
Robert Dias	....	electrician
Jim Docouto	....	electrician
Brian Gedge	....	camera operator
Kevin Michael LeBlanc	....	first assistant camera
Robin Lopes	....	grip
Paolo Perin	....	best boy grip
David Perkins	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Ronald Schlueter	....	playback operator
Jeremy Settles	....	camera operator: segments
Darren Spriet	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Christopher J. Toudy	....	key grip
Steve Wilkie	....	still photographer
Jordan Willoughby	....	camera trainee
Ramesh Yogendran	....	electrician

Casting Department
Kathleen Howell	....	casting associate
Misha Rasaiah	....	casting assistant
Jane Rogers	....	extras casting
Karen Williams	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Karen Eppstadt	....	key costume breakdown artist
Les Handrahan	....	costumer
Leslie Kavanagh	....	wardrobe set supervisor
Stephanie Lees	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Diane Brunjes Robb	....	first assistant editor (as Diane Brunjes)
Nick Iannelli	....	digital intermediate producer
Tom Mayclim	....	negative cutter
Arthur Montreuil	....	color timer
Dave Muscat	....	assistant digital intermediate editor
Chris Wallace	....	digital intermediate colorist
James Yazbeck	....	telecine suite operator
Motassem Younes	....	digital intermediate editor

Music Department
Leo Busuttil	....	musician
Peter Freeman	....	music designer
Paul Intson	....	music editor
Jim Kaufman	....	soundtrack music
Yvonne McDonald	....	music clearances
Jonathan Scott Miller	....	music supervisor: soundtrack producer
Jonathan Platt	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Adam Bialow	....	business affairs
Lisa Burling	....	script supervisor
Chad Cole	....	assistant: Mark Burg & Oren Koules
Cristin L. Cornett	....	production coordinator
Kym Crepin	....	production accountant
Ryan Eldridge	....	production assistant
Yon Elvira	....	supervisor of assets and unit publicity: Lionsgate
Lisa Gyorfi	....	assistant production coordinator
Kaleigh Kavanagh	....	assistant to executive producer
Jane Kim	....	assistant: Darren Bousman
Steven Lewis	....	production attorney
Dahla MacKenna	....	educational supervisor
Ashleigh Millar	....	craft service
Tracy Mulholland	....	acquisition
Pete Nilson	....	caterer
Sat Sidhu	....	on-set tutor
Carla Spizziri	....	first assistant accountant
Bob Tarantino	....	production legal
Al Vrkljan	....	armorer
Kris Wood	....	playback coordinator
Kris Wood	....	playback supervisor

Thanks
Laura Bousman	....	special thanks
Gregg Hoffman	....	dedicatee

Production Companies

• Twisted Pictures (presents)
• Evolution Entertainment
• Saw 2 Productions

Distributors

• Maple Pictures (2006) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Lionsgate (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Hoyts Distribution (2006) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Metropolitan Filmexport (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2006) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Showtime (2006) (South Korea) (theatrical)
• Independent Films (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Kinowelt Filmverleih (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2006-2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2006) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Village Films (2006) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Audio Visual Enterprises (2007) (Greece) (DVD)
• Deltamac Entertainment (2006) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Eagle Films (2006) (non-USA) (all media) (Middle East)
• Independent Film Channel (IFC) (2008) (USA) (TV)
• Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2007) (UK) (DVD)
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2007-2008) (Finland) (DVD)
• Veronica (2009) (Netherlands) (TV)

Special Effects

• Switch VFX (visual effects)
• Good Enterprises
• Grand Unified Theories

Other Companies

• Artists' Addiction Records  soundtrack
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies
• DeLuxe Toronto  digital intermediate
• Deluxe Post-Production  post-production facilities
• Got Films  world premiere
• Hand Prop  props supplied by
• Kallista Marketing & PR  international publicity
• Movie Armaments Group  firearms supplied by
• Urban Post Production  sound post-production
• William F. White International  grip and lighting equipment

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MPAA:

Rated R for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language

Runtime:

108 min | 114 min (unrated version) | 121 min (director's cut)

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS | DTS (Dolby 5.1)

Certification:

Ireland:18 | UK:18 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Australia:MA | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | Norway:18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Romania:I.M.-18 | Portugal:M/18 | USA:R (certificate #42733) | Netherlands:16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Singapore:R21 | Sweden:15 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Hong Kong:III | Mexico:C | Argentina:18 | New Zealand:R18 | USA:Unrated (uncut version) | Chile:18 | Italy:VM14 | Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | Germany:18 (cut) | Germany:16 (heavily cut) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (uncut) | South Korea:18 | France:-16 (DVD version) | France:-18 | France:-16 (video) | Japan:R-18 | Brazil:18 | Japan:R-15 (edited for re-rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Iceland:18 (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Twisted Pictures

Trivia:

Barry Flatman and Shawnee Smith also shared the screen in the 1986 television movie Easy Prey.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Jigsaw pulls out the tape player at the end of the movie, his thumb is on top of the tape player, nowhere near the play button on the side of it. However, we distinctly hear a click (as if the play button had just been pressed), and the tape begins to play, even though the play button was never pressed.

Quotes:

Jeff:He died in my arms! My 8 year old son died in my arms.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Welshy Reviews: Saw Retrospective: Part IV - Saw III (#2.11)" (2012)

Soundtrack:

This Calling

The Last Test of Forgiveness

Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) is an anguished man, who grieves and misses his young son that was killed by a driver in a car accident. He has become obsessed for revenge against the man and reckless with his wife and daughter. When Dr. Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh), who has troubles with her marriage, is abducted by the deranged Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), she is brought to a gruesome warehouse to keep John Kramer (Tobin Bell) alive in spite of having a terminal brain tumor. Amanda puts a necklace gadget full of explosives around Dr. Lynn's neck connected to John Kramer's life support system, and tells her that if he dies the device will explode. Meanwhile, Jeff is submitted to a sick game of forgiveness with surprising dark consequences.

"Saw III" is the last chapter of the sick trilogy of the Jigsaw and also very good. The morbid, claustrophobic and gore story unravels maybe the sicker game of John, with surprising tests, twists and revelations. This movie keeps the atmosphere of "Seven" and "The Silence of the Lambs" and Tobin Bell has another great performance in the role of and intelligent, sadistic and cold blood killer. The camera and the cinematography contribute with the morbid atmosphere of this film. The fans of this character will certainly enjoy the conclusion of the trilogy, but it certainly is not recommended for audiences with problem with psychological and visual violence. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Jogos Mortais III" ("Mortal Games III")