8 Horror Movies That Give Away Their Own Endings

8. Saw - Jigsaw's Plans Are Literally An Open Book

Starting off strong we have Saw, a film with one frustratingly obvious piece of evidence that gives away our big killer reveal long before we find it out for sure.

This first instalment to the now huge franchise centres around two men and a corpse. Which, when said like that, sounds like a strange daytime television comedy. As the men, Gordon and Adam, try to escape a locked room to save themselves (and in one man’s case, save his family), they realise that their capture has been at the hands of the notorious Jigsaw killer.

We then get a little flashback to five months earlier: Gordon is discussing the case of terminal brain cancer being suffered by a patient called John Kramer and for a brief moment we see a shot of Kramer lying semi-conscious in his hospital bed.

If you look closely, you can see he has left his notebook open on a page of what appears to be scribbles.

Look closer: it’s actually an illustration of the infamous reverse bear trap.

When we go on to see this trap in action, those who were able to link it to the image drawn by Kramer would be able to see that he is the one responsible. From there, they also may be able to recognise the ‘corpse’ in the room with Gordon and Adam as being Kramer himself.

Doing this, you’d be able to solve the two biggest twists in the film by seeing one important give-away clue.