The Entire Saw Franchise Timeline Explained
The Entire Saw Franchise Timeline Explained
By Amanda June Bell/Feb. 25, 2021 1:35 pm EDT
The
Saw series started out as a claustrophobic thriller about two guys trapped in a bathroom by a deranged serial killer. It has since become a sprawling horror franchise that is still going strong, many years later. Indeed,
Saw has been delivering terrifying twists from the very beginning: Who could forget the jaw-dropping moment in which John Kramer (Tobin Bell) first peels himself off of a blood-soaked floor and reveals himself to be the mastermind behind the gory games?
Each of the subsequent
Now streaming on: Saw is an efficiently made thriller, cheerfully gruesome, and finally not quite worth the ordeal it puts us through. It s a fictional machine to pair sadistic horrors with merciless choices, and so the question becomes: Do we care enough about the characters to share what they have to endure? I didn t.
Two recent films, Touching the Void and Open Water, involved characters who experienced almost unimaginable ordeals of pain and despair, and I was with them every step of the way not least because I understood how they found themselves in their terrifying situations, and how they hoped to escape.