Make Your Choice pt. 11

An In Depth Look at the Saw Traps

“The clock is ticking for you”

Jigsaw (Saw 2)

In all honesty I’m getting sort of tired of writing about the traps because they are just so hard to differentiate. But I must finish the ranking so, continued from Make Your Choice part 10.

42. The Oxygen Crusher (Saw 6)

In this trap, one person had to die for the other to survive. Every time someone took a breath, the sides of the trap moved inward a little more. The more breaths the victim took, the more crushed they became. This trap was not very cool and one of the people in it didn’t even do anything to deserve to be there.

43. Brazen Bull (Saw The Final Chapter)

Okay so in this trap was a lady who did nothing other than trust her husband, but she was basically baked in a giant oven. It was a terrible way to go and she didn’t deserve it.

44. The Razor Wire (Saw)

This trap featured a man who was suicidal. I don’t think he deserved to be in the trap. Depression is not cured by putting someone in a razor wire maze and telling them “escape”. This man needed help, not Jigsaw giving him the opportunity to die.

45. The Ice Block Trap (Saw 4)

This trap was rigged so that everyone involved would die. It was not cool and was rather boring and pointless.

46. The Gallows (Saw 6)

This trap did not let the people in it decide their own fates. Also, they were killed by being hanged by barbed wire so it was just unpleasant to watch. There was a lot of crying and begging.

47. Zep’s Test (Saw 1)

Zep was told he had to kill and innocent mother and child when the timer ran out, and I just think that a better test could have been made. Jigsaw should not have placed an innocent mother and child in danger.

48. Quadruple Shotgun (Saw 1)

This trap was a security measure, designed to kill police officers who found where Jigsaw was living. He killed police officers who were just doing their job, and in my opinion that’s just senseless murder.

49. The Pendulum (Saw 4)

This was not even a Jigsaw trap. It was designed by detective Hoffman in order to kill the man who brutally murdered his sister. Not only was it unwinnable, but it was unrealistic because the guy in the trap would have passed out from the pain.

50. Pig Vat (Saw 3)

You could argue to get this trap moved up on the list, however the judge did not deserve to be there, his fate was not in his own hands, and the trap was designed so he would drown in pig guts. That’s not cool, that’s just vile.

51. Water Cube (Saw 5)

Last and least, the water cube. This trap was designed by Detective Hoffman (Jigsaw at the time) and I have so many problems with it. First, it was unwinnable and honestly I wanted Strahm to die, but they then made him figure out how to survive, so I hate that. Second, there was a tape for Strahm and there was absolutely no way for Jigsaw to know that Agent Strahm would be the one to make it to the trap. Therefore it was unrealistic for them to be prepared for him. Hoffman didn’t know Strahm was coming until he had arrived that day, and they could not have made a whole trap and tape and secret room for him while Jigsaw was on his death bed and Lynn was there. This trap was a prank.

And there you have it, every Jigsaw trap ranked from best to worst. If you could not tell I got a little bored half way or so through, but I made it eventually. It was really hard to decide how to rank the ones after about the top ten because after that they were all fairly average. I did not hate them or love them, I just disliked them about an equal amount. Especially since there is not much information on the traps, the movies spend at most ten minutes on each individual trap. For some of them, you don’t know about the people who are in them, and you have no real attachment to them. That being said, some of the traps, like the Reverse Bear trap, were amazing and super interesting. Also I’d like to know more about the Jigsaw Survivors group they introduce in Saw The Final Chapter. That would be interesting to here more about.

I am now running out of Saw thing to talk about, so we will see how many more of these I make.

“By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal.”

Amanda (Saw 2)