10 Horror Movie Sequels With ONE Great Scene
2. The Horsepower Trap - Saw 3D
There's no denying that by the time the seventh Saw movie hit cinemas, the series was absolutely outta gas, and frantically scrambling to come up with creatively grisly death traps.
As if the movie's chintzy 3D gimmick didn't scream desperation enough, its storyline stretched credulity beyond breaking point, even if the widely-expected reveal of Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) as Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) "final" apprentice did provide fans with some amusingly WTF closure.
The traps largely either felt like shameless repeats of ones we'd seen before or were just too over-the-top for their own good.
But there's a single set-piece which delivered the gory, blackly comic goods, complete with a delightful cameo from a certain legendary musician.
The infamous "Horsepower Trap" sees white supremacist Evan (late Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington) waking up inside a car with his back glued to the seat.
In order to save himself and his friends from death, he needs to forcibly rip his back skin from the seat and pull a lever within a time limit. But of course, he doesn't quite manage it.
The outcome is gloriously revolting mayhem - the timer runs out and a chain reaction is triggered in which Evan's pals are all brutally killed by a series of contraptions linked to the car. As for Evan, he's fatally catapulted through the windshield when the car crashes in the nearby junkyard.
This trap achieves the potent fusion of grim disgust and dark satire that's sorely, depressingly lacking in all of the movie's other traps.