SAW TRIVIA
Let’s put some closure on the Saw franchise by talking some cool trivia about the various movies.
1. All the victims who die in Saw are men.
2. Leigh Whannell has said in an interview that he had planned for Adam & Lawrence to be trapped in an elevator instead of a filthy bathroom.
3. In Saw II there were approximately 120,000 needles used to shoot the needle pit scene.
4. Shawnee Smith was pregnant during filming of Saw II. She kept it a secret from everyone including directors and producers.
5. The pig bodies in the Judge’s trap in Saw III were made of foam, rubber and latex. They were filled with live maggots. This trap was also Tobin Bell’s favorite of the entire series.
6. The actress who was frozen to death in Saw III wore a mirkin to preserve her modesty.
7. Saw IV is the first movie in the series that was not written by Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell.
8. A coroner was onset at all times for the autopsy scene in Saw IV.
9. In Saw V in the scene in which Jigsaw’s corpse is lying in a bed you can see s ram’s skull on the nearby shelf. Ram skulls often symbolize Satanism
10. In Saw V the blades in the guillotine trap are all shapes like a V.
11. In Saw VI the role of Simone was played by Tanedra Howard. She won her role on VH1’s Reality Show Scream Queens.
12. The carousel trap in Saw VI originally had ten victims on. It was changed to six to match the film’s title.
13. Saw 3D is the only film in the series that has a trap that is outside and takes place during the day.
14. Twenty-five gallons of fake blood was used in Saw 3D.
15. Four hundred extras were cast for the department store trap in Saw 3D.
16. If you were to watch all the films in the Saw series it would take you 666 minutes.
17. During the filming of her scenes in Saw, Shawnee Smith had the flu along with 104 fever.
18. When Shawnee Smith cut open her cell mate in Saw and fished around in his stomach his insides were actually pig guts.
19. In Saw II, Henry Rollins was originally cast to play Xavier but had to be replaced for scheduling conflicts.
20. In preparation for Saw III, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell spent several weeks getting to know one another so their on-screen relationship would seem real.
Ok kids! There you have it. Hopefully you have learned something! As an extra added bonus, here is the short that Leigh Whannell and James Wan filmed in order to enhance the sale of the movie, starring Whannell and directed by Wan.
http://youtu.be/9ZkZpLvPp3Q
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