LOS ANGELES: Horror swung a sharper blade than Zorro at the box office. With Halloween at hand, the bloody "Saw II'' won the weekend with $30.5 million (euro25.1 million), almost double the $16.5 million (euro13.6 million) opening of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones' swashbuckling sequel "The Legend of Zorro,'' according to studio estimates Sunday. 

The weekend's other big-name wide releases had so-so premieres. "Prime,'' starring Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep in a romance between a thirtysomething woman and a younger man, debuted at No. 3 with $6.4 million (euro5.3 million).