Saw (short film)

Arrested, David ( Lee Wannell ), in an interrogation room, talks to an unnamed, callous police officer (Paul Moder). David is handcuffed, with traces of blood on his face and shirt. He smokes a cigarette. David tells the officer that after he went home after a working day in the hospital, he lost consciousness and woke up already in a large room.

In the room, David was tied to a chair with a large rusty metal device on his head. To his left was a small TV that started showing a video with a doll that reported that the device on the head was a jaw breaker that works like a bear trap, just the opposite, and that the device is connected to its jaws and will rip open its face if David will not unlock it in the specified time. The doll tells David that the only key to unlock the device is in the stomach of his “dead” cellmate (Dean Francis).

David is freed from the put, but thereby he starts the timer on the back of the device. In the room he finds the body that the doll was talking about, but it turns out that the person is actually alive, simply can not move. David panics, but cuts through a person’s stomach and stomach. After finding the key, David opens the device and throws it to the ground, after which the jaw breaker opens and David avoids death.

David begins to scream and cry in horror. A doll from the video appears at the entrance to the room on a tricycle. He congratulates David on having survived, and tells him that David now values ​​and deserves life.

The film ends with a policeman asking David: “And are you grateful to him, David?”, Again provoking a man’s tantrum. The caption shows the bathroom, later used in the full-length film, although with some differences. A small peephole appears from the wall, from which the eye is visible.

• Lee Wannell - David
• Paul Moder - Police Officer
• Katrina Mathers - Nurse
• Dean Francis - David's cellmate
• Tobin Bell - Billy's Doll (voice acting)

Similarities

• The feature film has borrowed many features from David. Key among them were Zep's place of work (he worked as a hospital orderly) and a jawbreaker that was worn on Amanda Young. David also suffered from nicotine addiction, as did Adam Stanheit.
• Lee Wannell wrote the script and starred in both films, albeit in different roles.
• James Wang directed both films.
• Almost the entire short film, up to certain dialogs and camera angles, was repeated in the full-length.
• At the end of the film, a bathroom is shown, which will be the main location in the full-length film.
• Through the peephole shown in the bathroom, John Kramer will be watching Paul Leichy and Mark Wilson in a feature film.

Differences

• Lee Wannell played the role of David in a short film, and in the full-length he played Adam Stenheit.
• Paul Moder played the role of a detective, while in the full-length feature, Danny Glover played a similar role.
• Billy's doll has different voices in films and she also wears a worn bowler hat on her head, but he was not in the rest of the film.
• The bathroom is shown briefly at the end of the short film, in the full-length it is the main location.
• The trap that David wears is different versions of the same trap that Amanda wears in a feature film.

• The melody "Hello, Zepp", which has become the main musical theme in all films of the series, plays in the short film during the credits.
• In the opening scene of the picture, there is an excerpt from the remix of “Screaming Slave” for the song “ Happiness in Slavery ” by Nine Inch Nails , which included the composer Charlie Clouser in 1994–2000 (the remix itself was recorded in 1992).

• " Saw "
• Franchise "Saw"
• Lionsgate Entertainment
• Hello Zepp - a musical composition written by Charlie Clouser ; The title of the movie series.

• Saw on the Internet Movie Database
• YouTube movie in Russian