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Another Killer Ending for "Saw IV"
by Fred Topel | June 25, 2007
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"Saw IV" continues to surprise its fans. After the twist ending of the original, you'd think we'd be onto their game, but "Saw II" still pulled the rug out from millions of fans. "Saw III" went with a more emotional revelation in the end, but "Saw IV" promises to be back to the shocker, says director Darren Lynn Bousman.

"When I first read it, I was on page 85 but I didn’t feel any way about it," said Bousman. "I wasn’t pissed or excited really until I got to page 87. When I hit page 87, I was like 'God damn it, they got me!' And I’ve f*cking done this for the last three years and they got me and that’s when I knew that I had to come back because everything before that thing took a whole different light to it."

If the director of the previous two can still be fooled, there's a good chance audiences will fall for it too. "The end this year, yeah, there definitely is something. I’m not saying it’s a huge twist but there’s something at the very end of the movie which made it all. I was saying to someone else earlier I think the Saw films kind of to me are like magic tricks. You go in there and you’re looking for the way they’re going to do it. I know what he’s doing. He’s doing this, this, this. And then we do the trick and they’re like, 'Sh*t, we missed it.' And then you go back again to watch it again to see if you can see it."

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Mr. Kong
Mr. Kong writes:
on Jun 25 2007 08:09 AM

Hmmm, this could be pretty good then. Then again, he's not gonna say "The ending sucks!" Then again, he wouldn't really talk about it if it were good.

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Murrow100
Murrow100 writes:
on Jun 25 2007 08:35 AM

He didn't feel anything until the pages in the eighties. Does that mean the movies a complete and udder bore until the end where the writers through another monkey wrench in the engine.


SPOILER: Donnie Walhberg RETURNS!!!!!


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gratefuldawg
gratefuldawg writes:
on Jun 25 2007 08:47 AM

Its turns out to be a halloween bedtime story read to fred savage by columbo; rob riener directs. hijinks ensue.

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Vicens17
Vicens17 writes:
on Jun 25 2007 09:59 AM

Well then you have my money.

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DiscoDan
DiscoDan writes:
on Jun 25 2007 10:44 AM

If they're going by to the style of the original that would be great, it all turned to crap when they tried to explain jigsaw

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Herberbaly
Herberbaly writes:
on Jun 25 2007 01:42 PM

The movie has no choice but to go the prequel route, which means it will suck. Exploring Jigsaw's lovelife will be about as good as another shitty prequel, Hannibal Rising. Prequel's with serial killers are doomed to suck, they're just not interesting or scary enough. I thought all the other flicks of this franchise were pretty bad, so my expectations for this are low as well. My guess is the twist, like the others, really aren't hard to see coming and is unintelligent and negates the entire preceding story. How good can a movie be thats cast, filmed, and completed in under 8 months?

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Mr Flix
Mr Flix writes:
on Jun 25 2007 03:25 PM

The only real suprise would be if they killed this tired franchise. Lay down, rest easy Jigsaw and wait for someone to "reimagine" you ten years from now.

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LEGENDc
LEGENDc writes:
on Jun 25 2007 03:36 PM

He said something like,
I think the Saw films kind of to me are like magic tricks.

Yeah, Silly, Fake and Retarted. Make this franchise dissapear Mr.Copperfield.


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bigsexy_90
bigsexy_90 writes:
on Jun 25 2007 04:15 PM

[b]Twists?[/b]
I still personally find the saw franchise very generic and bland. Even the first one, and the twists....well, to me the twists are very predictable, at least to me they were, I predicted the ending to the first 3, and sure enough I was right, soto me, yay, another predictable film with nothing new top offer an already tired and dry series!


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lpbreeze
lpbreeze writes:
on Jun 25 2007 07:55 PM

aliens should be in the movie. yah aliens. and it should be rated PG.

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Demmi
Demmi writes:
on Jun 27 2007 05:41 AM

In reply to this comment (#870976)
This has nothing to do with Saw but I'll say it anyway,
I just found out that a "Chucky vs Leprechaun" movie is coming out this year, I haven't heard anything of it outside of wikipedia so it may be direct-to-video or not true. Either way its gonna suck, Leprechaun is such a bad villain.


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Aqueryan Reloaded
Aqueryan Reloaded writes:
on Jun 27 2007 07:54 AM

In reply to this comment (#870975)
Ditto. As a long-time horror aficionado I can't for the life of me understand why this franchise has been embraced and championed as being something more than mediocre/average at best. Then again, when excellence is in short supply, the merely average can tend to APPEAR to be better than it actually is in comparison to outright crap.

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arcadefire325
arcadefire325 writes:
on Jun 27 2007 01:13 PM

the ending is that this is all a dream of a little boy. wakes up and tells mommy that he had a dream about a serial killer that tortures people. then he wakes up again and chuck norris shows up and the little boy tells chuck norris that he had a dream within a dream about jigsaw. the little boy goes down stairs to eat breakfast. the end. jigsaw was completely fake.

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