Over the course of the last several weeks, I’ve been going back through all the previous Saw stories. Across eight films, the series told of everyday people who found themselves caught in tortuous games of life and death that were all orchestrated by the infamous Jigsaw killer. Only a few are worth watching as the series steadily declined into being more and more unnecessarily convoluted to keep the story running past where it should have ended. It is a shame as the first, even with its flaws, remains a standout that left a mark on the horror genre as a well-constructed and inventive film.
