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It's a trap! All of the goriest 'Saw' horror devices, ranked (including new 'Saw X' movie)
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Date:2025-04-19 01:22:35
In the annals of horror-villain lore, Freddy and Jason ruled the 1980s, Ghostface and Chucky owned the 1990s, but the 2000s saw the coming of arguably the most devious killer of them all: Jigsaw.
Played by Tobin Bell since the original 2004 movie, Jigsaw (alongside various apprentices) would put his victims through gruesome games to test their will to live – and the deaths were usually gory and pretty darn clever. Even the simplest Jigsaw scenario was more interesting than something hacky like a machete and just as bloody. (Don't kill us, Jason.)
The latest installment, "Saw X" (in theaters now), is a throwback: Taking place between the first two "Saw" films, the story centers on Bell's diabolical dude going to Mexico for an experimental treatment to cure his terminal brain cancer, getting scammed, and then taking out his revenge the only way he knows how.
In honor of the latest outing, we’re ranking the most diabolical death traps from each of the "Saw" movies.
But fair warning: The franchise's doom devices and contraptions aren't for the squeamish. Stop reading now if you don't want to know the specifics.
10. 10 Pints of Sacrifice ('Saw V,' 2008)
Try to forget this one the next time you donate. Two prisoners stick their hands in a box and cut themselves on sharp saw blades, enough to fill a beaker with 10 pints of their blood. And if they don’t succeed in 15 minutes, nail bombs finish them off.
9. A Pound of Flesh ('Saw VI,' 2009)
This trap isn’t as collaborative. A pair of victims are outfitted with a mechanical device on their heads that aim screws at their temples; they're also given a variety of cutting tools. The first person to cut off a whole pound of flesh and throw it on a scale lives − the other is screwed.
8. The Tongue Trap ('Spiral: From the Book of Saw,' 2021)
"Spiral" is arguably the least gory "Saw" of them all, with the franchise going in a more cop-movie direction. It still has a taste for carnage, though: A police officer known for lying on the witness stand is chained up by his tongue in a busy subway tunnel and the only way to escape is to let gravity take the wheel. Unfortunately, the dude rips his tongue out and gets absolutely annihilated by a train. At least his Fitbit stayed intact!
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7. The Mausoleum Trap ('Saw IV,' 2007)
Two men are shackled to each other by their necks and chained to a large metal contraption with a winch that will turn and strangle them if they don’t escape. The key to freedom is attached to the back of the shackles − the only problem is a lack of communication since one guy’s eyes and the other’s mouth are sewn shut.
6. The Horsepower Trap ('Saw 3D: The Final Chapter,' 2010)
Late Linkin Park frontman − and huge "Saw" fan − Chester Bennington was at the center of this high-octane situation. (A "Saw" producer lived next door to one of Bennington's bandmates and offered him the gig.) With his bare back super-glued to the driver’s seat of a jacked-up car, his character has 30 seconds to peel himself away and pull a lever next to the windshield. Failure means a sequence of events that kills his girlfriend and pals in heinous fashion.
5. The Bone Marrow Trap ('Saw X,' 2023)
Believe it or not, a guy getting his eyeballs vacuumed out of his head isn't the grossest sequence in the 10th "Saw." Instead it's a bit where one of the con artists who swindled Jigsaw has three minutes to amputate her own leg using a surgeon's Gigli saw, stick a hose into the exposed bone and suck out a certain amount of marrow in time. She fails, and a contraption with razor-sharp wire shifts into gear and slices her head clean off.
4. Laser Collars ('Jigsaw,' 2017)
All the Murderer's Trial devices are pretty funky (shoutout to the Cycle Trap) but the climactic game used by Jigsaw's vengeful apprentice speaks for itself. The collar around the victim's neck starts with all eight laser cutters pointed upright, and if the person doesn't confess their crimes in time, those bad boys gradually rotate down 90 degrees to slice a person's head in eight individual parts so that they look like an upside-down octopus from hell.
3. Venus Fly Trap ('Saw II,' 2005)
In a film loaded with gnarly traps – the Needle Pit, Razor Box and so on – here's the worst. One poor dude has only 60 seconds to free himself before the trap's two nail-spiked halves close on his head. The key to unlock it is implanted behind his eyeball, so he’ll have to rip it out to free himself. Yuck.
2. The Angel Trap ('Saw III,' 2006)
This thing's definitely more hellish than heavenly, y’all. A woman is suspended in the air and outfitted with brackets connected to her rib cage. She has a minute to escape before the trap triggers and rips open her chest, though the way out isn’t fun: The key is at the bottom of a large beaker of acid.
1. Reverse Bear Trap ('Saw,' 2004)
Jigsaw's signature device is still the best. Seen in the first movie, it’s a rusty, helmet-looking thing hooked to the mouth that rips open a person's jaws in a truly horrifying way. The intended victim manages to unlock it in the first "Saw," but one lady isn’t so lucky in the most stomach-churning scene in "Saw 3D."
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