As Saw X rolls into theaters, we looked back at the most horrifying Jigsaw traps in 20 years of Saw movies
This is a broad entry, since it encompasses, essentially, the entire 103-minute runtime of the original. But there’s a reason that the basic setup there—two men chained up in an abandoned bathroom, with a corpse between them—was enough to propel James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s original self-funded short film into what is now a 10-film franchise. Now admittedly, the actual solution to the dilemma facing Adam and Dr. Gordon here is pretty crappy, as far as puzzles go.
But the “two-man play” vibe of these two guys vacillating wildly between trust, distrust, violence, and worse in desperate circumstances is genuinely compelling, the atmosphere of dread never relenting even as the twists pile up.gets pretty far from this basic sales pitch even one sequel down the line, but there’s a reason that the first film remains iconic even as the rest of the franchise get more disposable by the entry.
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