Hey everyone, here's a top 10 list of my favourite Saw traps from the movie series. There are possible spoilers, as each of my picks are from any of the seven movies currently made. If you are a fan of the Saw series (I am!) then you may find this interesting, otherwise sorry to those people who either haven't seen any of them or don't like them. :)
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One of the primary focuses of the Saw films are the traps that the character John Kramer (Jigsaw) and his apprentices create for their victims. In the movies, the serial murderer, Jigsaw, places individuals into traps for having wasted or misused their lives; each trap serving the purpose of testing the victim's will to live. As such, these devices force subjects into near-death situations where they are typically given the opportunity to either save themselves or die. In accordance with Jigsaw's ideology, the traps are meant to act as a form of immediate rehabilitation for the subject upon completion, supposedly rewarding the survivo rwith a new lease on life and ridding them of their vices(that is if the subject doesn't fail and die, which is usually the case).
#10 - The Angel Trap (Saw 3)
The victim here is placed in a harness attached to the ribcage, the only way out of the device is to get the key from inside the acid-filled jar. She gets the key in time, but can't get out because this is one of Jigsaw's apprentices (Amanda Young's) inescapable traps. When the timer reaches zero sheraised her arms and clenched the chains she was hanging from as the two arms attached to the harness swiftly arched upwards in a similar manner to a pair of wings (hence the name of the trap), and pulled each side of the harness with them, causing the needles embedded in her torso to rip both sides of her ribcage out in opposite directions. She soon collapsed and died in the leather straps as her internal organs spilled out onto the floor.
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#9 - The Rack Trap (Saw 3)
Mentioned on the tape, this trap was Jigsaw's personal favourite, one which tests just how far the limbs can twist. Here, the victim is helpless, and another character must help save him. He doesn't save him in time, and very slowly, one by one, his limbs twist and twist until they each snap, with the neck being the last to twist. Certainly one of the most brutal of the Saw traps.
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#8 - The Bedroom Trap (Saw 4)
A serial rapist deservedly gets punished in this trap. His arms and legs are connected to chains, and the only way out of the trap is to activate two triggers within one minute, where 2 scythe-like arms attached to either side of the vice would drop down and gouge his eyes as punishment. He only managed to blind himself in one of his eyes, failing to press the second trigger in time. As a result, the gears connected to the posts began to crank as the four posts were pulled and planted outwards, pulling Ivan's limbs and ripping them from his body.
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#7 - The Coffin Trap (Saw 5)
A cla$$ic ending to Saw 5 that was all about trust. I won't mention names to avoid spoilers, but basically the bad guy told the good guy to enter the coffin, where pain will be inflicted but he will survive since the coffin will lower itself into the floor, while the walls close in and crush the other. The good guy didn't trust the bad guy, and payed the consequences of getting crushed by the walls.
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#6 - The Public Execution Trap (Saw 7)
This trap takes place in a public square, specifically in a window display with bulletproof glass. Two men wake up chained to either end of a table with a circular saw resting in front of each person, aimed at their chests, and a thrid circular saw on a large pivot in the middle, pointed towards the ceiling. A woman is revealed to be suspended above the center saw and restrained to a large board hanging from the ceiling. Jigsaw tells the three of them that this love triangle cannot continue, and one must be taken out of the equation. The saw blades are all connected by a sliding platform, and the question lies on who will try to kill who. Since this trap is in the recently released Saw 7 movie, I won't reveal who gets killed, as some (or most) of you wouldn't have seen the movie.
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I didn't mean for this to be a 2 part blog, but work starts very soon, and I didn't have enough time to complete the whole list, so I'll continue with this tomorrow. If you're interested in how each of the traps work, youtube is the perfect place to see them all, enjoy! :P
These traps truly are terrifyingly violent and gory, fortunately the sight of blood and gore in movies doesn't bother me, though it does for a lot of other members of my family :P
Thanks for reading, check out Part 2 tomorrow :D