10 Horror Villains Who Were Just Misunderstood

John Kramer experienced more tragedy in a short space of time than most of us do in a lifetime. The formerly mild-mannered civil engineer lost his unborn child in a random act of violence, saw his marriage break apart, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and tried to commit suicide only to survive.

This would have most of us attempting suicide a second time, but not John Kramer. In the face of all that tragedy and his own impending death he learned to appreciate life and employed his civil engineering skills to pass on his newfound joie de vivre to others.

Admittedly, Kramer could’ve gone about it differently than snaring people in terrifying and often fatal death-traps but the Saw films wouldn’t have been half as fun if he’d simply become a self-help guru instead. And technically, though a lot of blood was shed along the way Kramer himself didn’t actually kill anyone. That was down to his over-zealous protégés and his traps or rather his abductees’ clearly not appreciating their lives enough to summon the wits to escape from them.

Jigsaw’s death-traps are basically just his messed-up way of teaching us all a valuable lesson: don’t take life for granted or you might just get your face ripped apart by a reverse bear trap.