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Saw II (2005)
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OK, so the novelty has slightly worn off, but Darren Lynn Bousman's sequel is just as deliciously twisted, fiendishly clever and gruesomely gory as the first life-or-death-game instalment. Eight people imprisoned in a booby-trapped slum by Jigsaw (a remarkable Tobin Bell) must discover their association to unlock the antidote to a poison gas that's gradually killing them. The son of burnt-out detective Donnie Wahlberg is one of the victims, but Wahlberg apprehending Bell's cancer-ridden madman turns out to be just another devious part of a much grander master plan. This movie connects neatly to its unnerving predecessor in cunningly wicked ways — once more it's the imaginatively brutal torture contraptions and diabolical demises that delight and disturb. Guns, syringes and razor blades are among the instruments of pain contained within the pulse-pounding set pieces that this nascent fear franchise has made its own. AJ
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Running time
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88min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Horror Thriller
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Darren Lynn Bousman, Leigh Whannell
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Theatrical distributor
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Entertainment
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UK cinema certificate
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18
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UK cinema release date
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October 2005
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