Most of all though, the series endures due to its depiction of violence and gore.
Sawplaces the majority of its violence and bloodletting in the hands of deadly and innovative traps.
The partners find themselves in a divided room with contraptions on their heads.
Not only were the two mutilating themselves in a competition, but their temples were slowly being bored into.
A combination lock is placed around her neck, with the code placed on the gears.
Jigsaw tasks Rigg not with saving Brenda’s life, but with leaving her be.
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As the game begins, the gears turn, slowly pulling Brenda’s hair and scalp from her skull.
Unbeknownst to Rigg, Brenda was also being tested.
Preferring freedom, she attempts to stab Rigg.
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Amanda’s earliest victims were police officers, blaming them for locking her away on false charges.
The Angel Trap finds Kerry strapped in a leather harness, with large metal brackets hooked into her ribcage.
These brackets are held in place by two large arms attached to an apparatus holding Kerry in place.
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In a small room lies a coffin made of glass and filled with glass shards.
The headstrong FBI agent cuts the recording early, choosing to fight Hoffman, who had entered the room.
Strahm seemingly succeeded and locked Hoffman in the coffin, but Hoffman just points at the tape recorder.
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The glass coffin retracts into the floor safely, and the walls begin to close around him.
The exit door locks and the walls cave in on Strahm, crushing him slowly.
Jeff spent countless nights fantasizing about getting revenge for the destruction of his family.
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Jigsaw offers Jeff the chance he craved by placing him in a game to test his forgiveness.
His head is also strapped to a rotating mechanism.
That, or watch Timothy die and see his revenge quest realized.
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Jeff succeeds in obtaining the key, but the shotgun blast kills Halden.
Rushing to Timothy, the trap’s time expires.
After all of his limbs have been ruptured, Timothy’s neck is broken.
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The rack continues turning until Timothy’s head is completely reversed.
Jeff cries out in distress, begging the trap to stop.
This sight brings Jeff to his knees, realizing his revenge was hollow.
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Suspended by chains inside a frigid meat freezer, Danica hangs naked and can do nothing but wait.
As the game begins, two contraptions to either side of Danica begin to spray her with ice-cold water.
She screams and begs Jeff to forgive her.
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Jeff refuses to help her and watches as her body is sprayed again and again.
Returning to Danica, Jeff sees that her body is encased in ice.
Evan awakes glued to the driver’s seat of a car jacked above the ground.
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Kara, Evan’s girlfriend, is chained below the vehicle.
Dan’s arms and lower jaw are chained to the back seat of the car.
Lastly, Jake is chained to the garage door where the trap takes place.
The glue is incredibly strong, forcing Evan to pull the skin from his own back.
Although he nearly succeeds, his efforts are in vain.
The car falls from the jacks, with the spinning back tire crushing Kara.
The vehicle then shoots forward, and Dan’s arms and jaw are pulled from his body.
The car then crashes and fires Evan through the windshield, completing the trap’s bloody work.
Next to the vat is a meat blender.
to get to spare Halden’s life, Jeff needs to make his way to a nearby incinerator.
Inside were the keepsakes Jeff kept of his son.
Halden begs and pleads to be saved, with Jeff unrepentant for watching the judge drown in the pulp.
Jeff ignores Halden’s cries before noting the wisdom of Halden’s plea.
Even if viewers don’t have a needle phobia, this trap can still make them squirm.
The gear wires itself inside the test subject’s mouth, clamping their jaws shut.
Most people are so ungrateful to be alive.
But not you, not anymore."
The trap fails to kill Hoffman but still splits his cheek open widely.
After this near-death experience, Hoffman sets off to get revenge.
After murdering multiple police officers, Hoffman finds Jill in protective custody and seizes her.
After beating her, he straps her into the same chair he was tested in.
They say you could’t beat the classics, and the Reverse Bear Trap is undoubtedlySaw’s most enduring trap.
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