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Saw IV (2007)

★ 6.2 · 4,084 ratings on TMDB

You thought it was over...but the games have just begun.

Saw IV poster★ 6.2

Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.

DirectorDarren Lynn Bousman
CastAngus Macfadyen, Athena Karkanis, Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor, Donnie Wahlberg, Louis Ferreira
GenresCrime, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Saw IV keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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