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* Saw, released on October 29, 2004.
* Saw II, the first sequel, released on October 28, 2005.
* Saw III, the second sequel, released on October 27, 2006.
* Saw IV, the third sequel, released on October 26, 2007.
* Saw V, the fourth sequel began filming on March 17, 2008,[2], with a release date of October 24, 2008.[3]
* Another sequel has been planned to follow Saw V.


No lets talk about the shows shall we .........

Flashbacks from Saw IV reveal the earliest roots of the series, which presented John Kramer as a successful civil engineer and devoted husband to his wife Jill, who opened a rehab clinic for drug addicts. Tragically, Jill lost her baby due to the inadvertent actions of a drug addict named Cecil, who fled the scene. John grieved over the loss of his child and distanced himself from his friends and wife.

Jill and John eventually drifted apart and divorced. After this turn of events, John found himself in a rut that he was too complacent with to give up. This lifestyle continued for some time until John became sick and was diagnosed with an inoperable frontal lobe tumor. Extremely bitter over his squandered life, John began observing the lives of others, and was even more depressed when he sees them squandering the gift of life that he had just been denied. After surviving a suicide attempt when he drove his car off a cliff, John became "reborn", and nurtured the idea that the only way for someone to change is for them to change themselves. He designed a test for Cecil and decided to use the rest of his existence to design more of these traps, changing the world "one person at a time", thus assuming the identity of the "Jigsaw Killer", so named because he removed a puzzle piece shaped chunk of flesh from those who do not escape his traps.

Few of John's victims are able to survive his brutal tests, which are often ironically symbolic representations of the problems in the victim's life and require them to undergo severe physical or psychological torture to escape. The first surviving victim, Amanda Young, views Jigsaw as her hero who ultimately changed her life for the better. Amanda, upon Jigsaw's request, agrees to become his protégé.

In the first Saw, Jigsaw has chained Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who diagnosed his cancer, in a dilapidated industrial washroom with Adam Faulkner, the private investigator who has been taking pictures of the doctor cheating on his wife. Lawrence has instructions to kill Adam in eight hours, or else his wife and daughter will be killed. Meanwhile, detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing, who suspect Lawrence of being the killer, follow a trail of clues from his other traps. Eventually, Lawrence saws his own foot off to escape and leaves Adam alone, when it is revealed that the supposed corpse that has been in the room the entire time is actually a disguised Jigsaw, who leaves Adam sealed in the room to die. Flashbacks from later films show that Amanda returns and suffocates Adam as a mercy killing. It would be the first time she deliberately intervened with a test and killed someone.

Saw II begins with the police tracking a severely weakened Jigsaw in his newest lair. However, another test is in place, as he has kidnapped the son of Detective Eric Matthews and trapped him and a group of seven convicts previously framed by Matthews in a house that is slowly being filled with a toxic nerve gas, Amanda among them. He will trade Daniel Matthews' life for Detective Matthews' time conversing with him until the game is concluded. Matthews loses his patience and assaults Jigsaw, forcing him to take him to the house shown on Jigsaw's screens, only to discover that the test in the house occurred much earlier and was videotaped; Matthews' son was safe all along. Matthews is knocked unconscious by a masked figure and wakes up imprisoned in the bathroom from the first film, in the foundation of the house. Amanda reveals herself to Eric as Jigsaw's protege before leaving him to die. Matthews manages to escape the bathroom by breaking his foot. He confronts and beats Amanda, demanding to know where his son is. Amanda defeats him and leaves him for dead. An unknown figure later drags Eric to a prison cell, keeping him for a future game.

The events of Saw III and IV occur concurrently. Saw III begins when Jigsaw, weakened from his disease, is confined to a makeshift hospital bed, and Amanda picks up his work, designing traps of her own. However, these traps are inescapable, as Amanda is convinced that Jigsaw's traps have no effect and that people don't change. During this time Detective Allison Kerry is kidnapped and placed in one of Amanda's traps, despite solving the test she is presented with, she is unable to escape and discovers Amanda to be Jigsaw's apprentice before her trap activates and kills her. A kidnapped doctor is forced to keep Jigsaw alive while another test is performed on Jeff, a man obsessed with vengeance on the drunk driver who killed his son. Jigsaw, unwilling to allow "a murderer" to continue his legacy, designs a large, complex test for Amanda, which she ultimately fails, resulting in the deaths of both Jigsaw and Amanda. Saw IV, meanwhile, revolves around tests meant for Officer Rigg, which are overseen by Forensic Hoffman, an accomplice. Rigg fails his tests resulting in the death of Eric Matthews. Rigg is left in the factory to bleed to death by Hoffman, who later discovers the bodies of Jigsaw and Amanda.

Saw IV ends on a cliffhanger when an autopsy is performed on Jigsaw and a cassette tape coated in wax is found in his stomach. The tape informs Hoffman that he is wrong to think that it is all over just because Jigsaw is dead, and he should not expect to go untested, and that the games have just begun.


Overall I liked Part II the best ... the scene with the needles is awesome! I mean my god how horrible would that have been!!!

i cant believe people like this movie, i would never watch it. Too scary for me, and maybe too gory too.

Scary, sadistic and cruel.. But ...as a movie.. great shock value and an unpredictable storyline (which is hard combination to get)... Yet again another movie you should not watch alone in the dark...this movie falls in line with others such as Hostel and Wolfgreek and The Hills have eyes... so if you like this movie... watch those .... just as creepy!!

I've only seen the first one, but I've been living with a husband who doesn't like those types of films and basically judges me for liking them. When I'm living in my own place again after the split, I plan to rent a crap-load of movies I didn't get to see when we were together, and the Saw series is one of them. ^_^ I can't wait for that!

I'm on a first-name friendly basis with the director of Saw 2-4 though. Darren's a good guy - he's just a little ADHD XDDD I've been a big supporter of his passion project Repo! The Genetic Opera. I run a fan-radio show, a shadow cast, and I'm helping plan the con, too. Fun times? biggrin