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**SPA** · 05-16-2008, 09:14 AM

Oh, my heavens -- the dangerous trap was for Scott!!!

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Last night I was invited to posh Beverly Hills to mix and mingle with some of the cast and crew of the upcoming horror film Saw V, the latest in the popular series. Several members of the online press and I were hobknobbing with the stars, sipping Saw-kitini's and chatting about the current installment, which recently wrapped filming. During my mingling I was able to have a great chat with director David Hackl. While this is Hackl's directorial debut, he is no stranger to the franchise, having served as the production designer on Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV. Here's what the new director had to say.

Director David Hackl

I was talking with Scott Patterson a little bit ago and he was talking about this insane trap in the movie. Tell us a little about that.

David Hackl: Scott was absolutely fantastic. About a month before we went to camera, I had a phone call with Scott and I explained to him what the trap was going to be, and he was right into it. He would totally do it. We got on the day and, not just Scott, but every member of the crew was scared, apprehensive, anxious. Of course, as the director, I was anxious that we couldn't pull it off, that we would somehow have to resort to a visual effect or something like that, and we didn't. We didn't because of Scott. He really worked his ass off. I've never seen an actor go through something like that and, not only be able to be in the trap but to do a performance and hit the things I asked him to hit. He hit it every time. We'd pull him out of it and he'd go, 'Let's go. Let's go again,' right away. He would do it all over again. I was so impressed and at the end of the day, I looked at him and he looked at me and he said, 'Thanks, man. That was an incredible experience.' I said, 'Thank you. Thank you for being so brave.' It really was an act of bravery. It was the one time, in all the Saw movies that I've done, that we did something that I wasn't fully sure we were going to get.

Oh, really?

David Hackl: It wasn't that it was the biggest trap, but it was probably the most truly dangerous one. Now, we had safeties like crazy. We had safety people standing all around, we had double safties on both sides of the thing, and we took every safety precaution we could... but still. Let's say that Scott just said, 'Forget it. I'm not doing it.' Let's say he tried it once and wouldn't do it, they were standing there, the whole crew in the room built for this trap, and we've got nothing. We were so far into the film that we couldn't just go, 'Well, we'll build another trap.' These things take weeks of building and engineering and development and research. It was really something that we would've been stuck.

Oh yeah. I can imagine. Can you give us any sort of clue about what this trap that Scott was going through is? Anything at all.

David Hackl: No, I can't, but I think it's definitely a situation where his real fear shows very very well on camera. I'm not sure how much was acting and how much wasn't, but I'm gonna say he did a fantastic job either way.

Is this going to be something that will be really really hard to top in Saw VI?

David Hackl: No, it's a stand-alone trap. It's not going to be hard to top, it's just that everyone's anxiety paid off and everyone's apprehension for this trap really paid off. It certainly showed on film as well. I mean, I've watched people, who I've showed this to, see this trap being performed and they have a physical reaction to it. I love when people get that kind of visceral, very physical reaction.

So it's not a really complex thing?

David Hackl: It's not. As a matter of fact, it's very elegant in its simplicity. That's what I like about it. Certainly in the past, I think one of my favorite traps was the hand trap in Saw II.

Oh yeah.

Excellent. Well thank you so much, David.

David Hackl: Great. Thank you.

There's more to his interview with Hackl -- just wasn't directly related to Scott -- but you can read it from the link above.

I mingled some more after that little chat, trying to see if I could get an in with Julie Benz or Tobin Bell, but, alas, they were occupied until the event came to a close. Well, that's all from the Saw V event. I had a great time, met some awesome people and learned a lot about the new film which is scheduled to open in theaters nationwide on October 24. Peace in. Gallagher out!