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galore SAW is a property that requires
very little introduction from its modest
beginnings as a low-budget short film
it's grown and expanded to become a
billion-dollar franchise eight
installments have been released to date
not to mention various video games comic
books and numerous theme park
attractions the films have grossed over
nine hundred and seventy-six million
dollars at the box office and that's not
counting home video streaming and
merchandising profits looks like our
friend jigsaw likes to book himself
front-row seats to his own sick little
games the property enjoys near universal
name recognition something that can only
be said of a select handful of horror
franchises and with a ninth film spiral
starring Chris Rock and samuel l.jackson
having completed filming at the end of
August 2019 saw shows no signs of
slowing down whoever did this has
another motive
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the targeted cops if you're not familiar
with the Saw franchise beyond the first
couple of films you'd be forgiven for
thinking that it just rehashes the same
old formula yes each film involves
people being forced to endure extreme
physical and psychological torture as
part of elaborate life-and-death games
but the films also tend to jump back and
forth in terms of time periods
continuously expanding the mythology of
the franchise by drawing connections
between the various victims killers and
cops why is this a cop 20 hey that's
called being a father trust me you're
better at being a cop the films are best
watched in order of release but to fully
appreciate this tapestry of gore it
helps to try to put this bloody jigsaw
puzzle together across the various
sequels viewers have repeatedly been
brought back to before the events of the
first film filling in the backstory of
the various supporting players as well
as the man at the heart of this gruesome
story John Kramer names John as an
inoperable frontal-lobe once upon a time
John Kramer was a happily married civil
engineer whose wife Jill operated a
clinic for addicts she eventually got
pregnant only for the child to be killed
in utero by a patient in John's world
began to fall apart he was soon
diagnosed with terminal cancer and
attempted to take his own life kids are
as what started me and my work
with the moment I decided to end my life
it was only after this failed suicide
and crawling from the wreckage of his
car in agony that he learned the value
of life divorced from his wife he made
it his mission to teach others to
appreciate existence by forcing them to
face death the jigsaw killer was born
does it don't appreciate life do not
deserve life Kramer's first victim was
Cecil Adams the man who killed his
unborn child time to explain please
suffice it to say Cecil failed the test
over the course of subsequent games
Kramer perfected his craft and even
found his first apprentice in Logan
Nelson the sole survivor of his barn
game together they continued to
orchestrate various deadly tests of
survival when someone copied Kramer's
calling card however Jon tracked down
the copycat
detectives mark Hoffman
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after subjecting him to a little test of
his own he added another accomplice to
his team creamer eventually turned his
attention to Amanda young another of his
wife's former patients who after killing
a man to survive the test became yet
another convert and apprentice this
brings us to the events of the first
film 2004's saw in it Kramer's
oncologist dr. Lawrence Gordon and
photographer Adam Stan Hyder tested in a
plot that also implicates David Tapp a
detective who was discharged when he
became obsessed with jigsaw he was
discharged from the police force broke
down after his partner was killed that
didn't stop him from harassing the guy
became obsessed convinced himself that I
must have somehow been involved with
murder
tap is killed Gordon escapes after
cutting off his foot and Adam is left
for dead after Kramer reveals himself to
have been the supposedly dead body lying
in the room it's later revealed that
Amanda goes back and puts Adam out of
his misery
they say that traumatic events bring
people together and that is certainly
true of the Saw franchise as dr. Gordon
joins Kramer as his newest apprentice in
the second film Kramer and his
accomplices bring together various
people convicted by Detective Eric
Matthews
some of them wrongfully as the detective
has been planting evidence among them is
Amanda who is of course really working
with jigsaw the cure for death itself
there's also Matthews own son Daniel
Daniel makes it out but his father winds
up locked in the bathroom he breaks his
foot to escape only to end up in the
clutches of another Kramer apprentice
detective Hoffman who still works as a
police detective on the jigsaw case the
events of saw three and soft four
actually play out simultaneously making
this period of time in the franchise
extra convoluted
I want to play a game around this time
John Kramer's old lawyer art Blanc is
kidnapped and subjected to a jigsaw test
he survives but rather than a willing
apprentice he becomes an unwilling
minion Blanc Amanda and Hoffmann
organize other bloody games for new
victims while Kramer undergoes surgery
which proves successful you haven't seen
anything yet unfortunately for all
parties involved the whole thing ends
and even Messier fashion than usual
abductee Jeff shoots Amanda and slices
Kramer's throat killing jigsaw but
causing the death of his wife
Jeff is then accidentally killed by an
FBI agent Peter Strahm while Blanc is
killed by SWAT officer Daniel rigs hello
officer Rigg if you are hearing this
then you have reached detective Mathews
and detective Hoffman in under 90
minutes resulting in their deaths with
Kramer and Amanda both dead Hoffman has
effectively taken over the mantle of the
jigsaw killer and the scariest thing
about that is the fact that he's being
treated as a hero by the media thank you
thank you very much throughout this
ordeal if we've learned anything it's
that human life is David however agent
Peter Strahm has escaped from the trap
Hoffman left him in and he's now rightly
suspicious a tense game of wits lies and
deceptions ensues
but just as Strom seems to get the upper
hand on Hoffman he's killed by a trap
not only does this would-be hero wind up
another victim but he's framed as a
killer by Hoffman who uses strom severed
hand to plant fingerprints and then
Hoffman essentially goes on his merry
way continuing to set up deadly games
like he was taught unfortunately for him
Jill
Kramer's wife has slowly but surely been
pulled into the fray by ur late
husband's legacy over the course of the
previous films she gives Hoffman a taste
of his own medicine
leaving him to die in a reverse bear
trap John left you five envelopes six
one was for me
this is John's will but just like his
mentor Hoffman refuses to die easily he
escapes the trap and starts setting up
new games his most recent high profile
target Bobby dagen an author who
published a book falsely claiming to
have survived jigsaw you don't see
anything wrong with that
no big uns finally becomes the survivor
he claimed to be in his book but his
wife and acquaintances are killed in the
game along with the cops who attempt to
stop it Hoffman for his part manages to
sneak into the police station in a body
bag where he and Jill have a rematch
this time around he comes out on top
killing Jill as things tend to do in
this franchise however it all comes full
circle when another one of Kramer's
apprentices Gordon locks Hoffman in the
bathroom sealing his fate
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and in the 2017 film Kramer's first
apprentice Logan Nelson restarted the
cycle of violence by recreating Kramer's
barn game he plays his games and even
manages to frame someone else for the
murders tying up his most recent chapter
in tidy fashion now I speak to the lives
ruined by people like you
murderers rapists their victims appeared
on my tape because of you of course with
Spiral confirmed to be quote in the same
canon as the previous eight films by
scriptwriter josh dolberg it would seem
that jigsaws future remains secure and
that this franchise will not only be
getting a new lease on life but also a
fresh perspective
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