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Saw X
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Directed by Kevin Greutert
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNick Matthews
Edited byKevin Greutert
Music by Charlie Clouser
Production
company
Distributed by Lionsgate Films
Release date
  • September 29, 2023 (2023-09-29)
Running time
118 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million [2]
Box office$125.3 million [3] [4]

Saw X is a 2023 American horror film directed and edited by Kevin Greutert, and written by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg. The film is the tenth installment in the Saw film series, serving as a direct interquel set between Saw (2004) and Saw II (2005). It stars Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith, who reprise their roles from the previous films, alongside Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, and Michael Beach. The film sees John Kramer (Bell) travelling to Mexico in hopes that an experimental procedure may cure his terminal cancer. John later discovers that the operation is a scam, prompting him to kidnap those responsible and subject them to his trademark death traps as retribution, with Amanda Young (Smith) acting as his accomplice.

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A tenth installment was reported to be in development with Twisted Pictures in April 2021, when Stolberg and Goldfinger, writers for the previous two entries of the series, announced that they had completed the script in December 2021. Greutert, who had directed two other installments of the series and edited six, was also confirmed as the film's director. Filming took place between October 2022 and February 2023 in Mexico City.

Saw X was theatrically released by Lionsgate Films on September 29, 2023. It grossed $125 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, making it the best-reviewed Saw film. A sequel, Saw XI, is scheduled for release on September 26, 2025.

Plot

John Kramer is told he has only months to live due to advanced brain cancer. He attends a cancer support group meeting and befriends Henry Kessler, who later claims he has been cured by an experimental Norwegian cancer treatment conducted by a group led by Dr. Finn Pederson. A desperate John contacts the doctor's daughter Cecilia, who refers him to her clinic outside Mexico City.

On arrival in Mexico, John is driven to the clinic and introduced to Cecilia and her team — anesthesiologist Mateo, nurse Valentina, and Dr. Cortez — as well as patients Gabriela and Parker and the caretaker's young son Carlos, with whom he bonds. John goes under for surgery and awakens to Cecilia telling him that he is now cancer-free. Finding a new lease on life, he purchases a gift for Gabriela. However, upon returning to the clinic, he finds it abandoned. He uncovers a video simulating his supposed brain surgery and removes his bandages to find no scar on his head, revealing the entire operation to be a scam.

Deducing that "Dr. Cortez" was his taxi driver Diego in disguise, John kidnaps and interrogates him, then forces him to play a "game" where he must remove pipe bombs lashed to his arms by cutting through his flesh, which he completes successfully. Meanwhile, Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda Young helps him abduct Cecilia and also abducts Mateo, Valentina, and Gabriela. They wake up in the clinic, now subjects in Jigsaw's games.

Valentina is tasked with severing her leg with a Gigli saw and extracting enough bone marrow to trigger a scale and deactivate the trap. She manages to amputate her leg but is unable to collect enough marrow, and a second Gigli saw decapitates her. Cecilia later uses Valentina's intestines as a rope to retrieve her phone and call for help, but Amanda shocks her into submission and confiscates the phone.

Parker breaks into the clinic, demanding his money back. Amanda restrains him while Mateo is forced to drill into his own skull and remove a piece of cerebral tissue to dissolve in a beaker and obtain a key. Although he successfully performs the task, the tissue fails to dissolve in time, and a heated mask closes over his face, killing him. Next, Gabriela is suspended from shackles and subjected to ionizing radiation, tasked with freeing herself by using a sledgehammer to break her shackled limbs. She succeeds, but before Amanda can take her to a hospital, Parker forces them at gunpoint to release Cecilia.

Cecilia kills Gabriela by breaking her neck and reveals she called Parker, who is part of the scam, to rescue her. She forces John to chain himself into the trap meant for her. When she hears Carlos outside, she takes the child and chains him opposite John. The trap begins waterboarding them with blood. Parker and Cecilia go to retrieve their bag of stolen cash from John's control room but activate a tripwire, sealing them both in the room and freeing John and Carlos. Flashbacks reveal that Diego outed all of the scammers — including Parker and Henry — and that John tricked Cecilia into luring Parker to the facility. A deadly chemical gas begins filling the room; the only respite is a ventilation hole large enough for one person's head, forcing Cecilia and Parker to fight each other. Cecilia kills Parker but can only watch as John, Amanda, and Carlos exit the facility, leaving her trapped.

Sometime later, Henry awakens in a dilapidated bathroom [a] with a new trap strapped to his stomach, overseen by John and Mark Hoffman.

Cast

Production

Development

In April 2021, a tenth film installment to the Saw franchise, titled Saw X, was reported to be in development with Twisted Pictures. [6] Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, writers for the previous two entries of the series, Jigsaw (2017) and Spiral (2021), confirmed the script was completed in December 2021. [7] Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules had planned the story of Saw X since 2018, but plans for the film were put on hold when Michael Burns, the Vice President of Lionsgate, met with Chris Rock in Brazil and approved his pitch for Spiral. That film's box office under-performance led Burg and Koules to go back to the franchise's roots for its tenth installment and make the story they had planned. [8] In August 2022, Bloody Disgusting reported the film would be directed by Kevin Greutert, who edited most of the previous installments, and directed Saw VI (2009) and Saw 3D (2010). [9] Lionsgate and Media Capital Technologies, a specialty finance company, signed an muti-year deal to co-finance a slate of films, which included Saw X. [10]

Casting

In October 2022, Tobin Bell was confirmed to reprise the role of John Kramer / Jigsaw. [11] Greutert told Empire that Bell is featured in the film more than any other in the series. [12] Bell was also involved in the film's script and post-production, coming up with extra dialogue that was incorporated into the story after shooting concluded. [8] In December 2022, Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand and Michael Beach joined the cast, [13] along with Renata Vaca, Paulette Hernández, Joshua Okamoto, and Octavio Hinojosa. [14] Shawnee Smith reprises her role as Amanda Young. [15] While never officially announced, Costas Mandylor returned with a cameo of his role as Mark Hoffman. Greutert told Entertainment Weekly that this cameo was "the most fan-servicey thing" he has done. [5]

Filming

Mexico City, where the film was shot. Wikimania 2015, Mexico City, DSC 1068.jpg
Mexico City, where the film was shot.

On a budget of $13 million, [2] principal photography took place on location in Mexico City from late October 2022 to February 2023. [13] [16] [15] The trap designs were more complex than in previous installments, so the filming schedule was split into two parts—three weeks in November and three weeks in January. Greutert told SFX , "We had to make so many prosthetics and machines, and over Christmas, we spent the entirety of it figuring this stuff out". [17]

At the Midsummer Scream 2023 convention, cinematographer Nick Matthews said they wanted to pay homage to the earlier Saw films. He explained, "I think for Kevin and I, it was really important that we were able to pay homage to all the early films, we love that the early films are [1.85] (ratio), we love that they're textural, that they're gritty, that there's these really bold, yellow color palettes, and we want to do our work to hearken to that, with pervasive darkness, and really throwing the audience subjectively right into this graphic, gritty world". [18] Production designer Anthony Stabley looked back at the color palette from those mid-2000s films and ensured that all technology, like graphics, seen in Saw X would have been available when those films took place. [19]

Post-production

Most of the gore was done with practical effects, with CGI only used for touch-ups. [17] The filmmakers considered the use of visual effects to de-age Bell and Smith due to the 17-year gap between their appearances in Saw III (2006), in which their characters both died, and Saw X. However, they decided against it; Greutert expressed his support for this decision, saying that "some of the films that have de-aged their actors, it puts some distance between the character and the audience," feeling that Bell and Smith have some emotional close-ups that should not be altered. [8]

Steve Forner, the film's first assistant editor, had local police called on him during an editing session involving sound design of the custodian's trap. [20] According to Greutert, Forner was working on the scene in his office when the police knocked on the door, citing neighbors' concerns of someone being "tortured to death" inside: "And [Forner] was like, 'Actually, I'm just working on a movie. You can come in and see it if you want.' The cops starting laughing. They said, 'We want to, but, you know, you're all right.' It must have been a pretty realistic performance". [21]

Release

Marketing

On September 9, 2023, Lionsgate announced the return of the Saw Blood Drive, a promotional event allowing audiences to donate blood to the American Red Cross in exchange for free tickets to the opening weekend of Saw X. [22]

On September 13, 2023, a parody of the Nicole Kidman AMC Theatres commercial was published to YouTube and to Lionsgate's social media platforms. [23] It featured a remote-controlled Billy the Puppet on a tricycle [24] in place of Kidman, with some changes to reflect the graphic nature of Saw. While the parody was met with humorous responses by news outlets, it was pulled from Lionsgate's accounts due to a cease and desist order by AMC Theatres. [25]

Theatrical

Saw X was released theatrically in the United States by Lionsgate Films on September 29, 2023. [26] The film was set to be released on October 27, 2023, before Lionsgate announced at San Diego Comic-Con that it would be moved up to its current date. [9] [27]

Home media

Saw X was released on PVOD in the United States on October 20, 2023, and on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD on November 21, 2023. The 4K and Blu-ray discs include over three hours of bonus footage, containing a making-of documentary titled Reawakening and deleted scenes. [28] The film was also released alongside the previous nine films in a 20th anniversary collection Blu-ray box set on March 5, 2024. [29]

Reception

Box office

Saw X grossed $53.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $71.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $125.3 million. [4] [3]

In the United States and Canada, Saw X was released alongside The Creator , PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie , and the wide expansion of Dumb Money , and was projected to gross $15–18 million from 3,262 theaters in its opening weekend. [2] It made $8 million on its first day, including $2 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $18.3 million, finishing second behind PAW Patrol. It was below the average opening weekend of the franchise ($23 million), but higher than recent installments Spiral ($8.8 million in 2021) and Jigsaw ($16.6 million in 2017). [30] The film made $8.2 million in its second weekend and $5.7 million in its third, finishing in third and fourth place, respectively. [31] [32]

Saw X topped the box office in the United Kingdom and Ireland, grossing $2.31 million in the first three days. [33]

Critical response

The film received positive reviews from critics, [b] who praised Bell's performance, adding that it was the best entry in the franchise since the first film. [38] [39] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 81% of 149 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10.The website's consensus reads: "Led by a franchise-best performance by Tobin Bell, Saw X reinvigorates the series with an installment that has a surprising amount of heart to go with all the gore." [40] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [41] It is the highest-rated film of the franchise on both websites, topping the first (50%) and third film (48 out of 100), respectively. [38] [42] [43] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled at PostTrak gave it an 82% overall positive score, with 62% saying they would definitely recommend the film. [30]

Variety 's Owen Gleiberman wrote that Saw X seemed "more like a real movie than many of the films in the series in that there's more talking and less torturing". He was satisfied with that ratio but was concerned if it would "pay off at the box office". He explained, "The torture set pieces in the Saw films are lavish gifts of baroque horror presented to the audience. They are, quite simply, the reason we came". He gave particular praise to Tobin Bell, "with his stare of pitiless wisdom". [44] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also praised Bell for his performance, saying "None of this would work nearly as well without Bell, whose raspy voice and menacing gravitas are so riveting that he makes Jigsaw's oft-repeated declaration 'I'd like to play a game' scary as hell". [45]

Beatrice Loayza called Saw X the "most well-groomed Saw film to date" in her review for The New York Times . She continues with: "The story mostly makes sense and Greutert pulls back on the frenetic editing techniques that made the older movies look like the blood and guts equivalent of white noise". [46] Bob Strauss of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "a well-told tale" and praised its character development and plot twists. [47] Wendy Ide of The Observer gave three stars out of five despite calling the film "unpleasant"— in her review she insists "that's rather the point." [48]

Helen O'Hara from Empire gave the film a score of two out of five, positively commenting on the blood and gore, calling it "all present and correct." However, O'Hara criticized the film's main focus on Kramer's vulnerability and human side, adding that it "sits at odds with his awful judgmentalism. Let monsters be monsters." [49] Kyle Turner writing for Slant gave the film a score of two and half out of four, saying "The real disappointment is that Shawnee Smith, who makes a return to the series for the first time since Saw VI, is relegated to mostly doing John's dirty work. It's hard out here for a disciple, and Smith hasn't had the chance to show off her chops as an actor since Saw III. But in Saw X, we do get crumbs of what makes her so thrilling as a performer, particularly one in the horror genre: She's all id, a tempest of emotion and fully embodied desperation and psychosis." [50]

Sequel

In December 2023, Lionsgate announced that a sequel, Saw XI, was scheduled to be released on September 27, 2024. [51] Producer Oren Koules stated the upcoming film will possibly be a direct sequel to Saw X. [52] Kevin Greutert will return as the director for the upcoming film. [53] In April 2024, the release date was changed to September 26, 2025, with another Lionsgate film, Never Let Go , taking the previous date. [54] Marcus Dunstan began work on the script in December 2023. [55]

Notes

  1. ↑ As first depicted in Saw (2004) [5]
  2. ↑ Attributed to multiple sources: [34] [35] [36] [37]

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