10 Horror Movie Survivors Everyone Forgets About

10. Jeff Ridenhour - Saw

The Saw franchise has generally circled back to those few victims lucky enough to survive a Jigsaw trap, with the seventh movie even introducing a support group for Jigsaw survivors.

But there's one survivor rarely discussed in all but the most hardcore quarters of the fandom, and that's Jeff Ridenhour.

He was the man who Detectives Tapp (Danny Glover) and Sing (Ken Leung) rescued from having his neck drilled to death in the very first Saw movie.

We know that Jeff survived the trap, but beyond that we know nothing about him - neither what happened to him post-rescue or why he was even targeted by Jigsaw in the first place.

Some fans have speculated that he may have been the dentist who "liked to play with kids too much" mentioned by Tapp earlier in the film, given that the chair he's strapped to could indeed be a dentist's chair, but this hasn't ever been officially confirmed.

Nevertheless, Jeff was originally supposed to return in an early draft of Saw IV's script to spectate the game being unwittingly participated in by FBI agents Peter Strahm (Scott Patterson) and Lindsey Perez (Athena Karkanis), but for reasons unknown this was scrapped.