10 Movies Where Evil Won

6. Saw

The Saw franchise tries to paint the Jigsaw Killer aka John Kramer (Tobin Bell) as anything but a serial killer.

There's a rather discomforting hand-waving of his actions throughout the franchise, which suggests that because he gives people a chance to escape his demented traps, he somehow avoids the label of murderer.

But apply any real-world logic here and Jigsaw is an ingenious force of evil, guilty of dozens of deaths, if possibly a result of the terminal cancer pressing on his brain.

Still, 99.999% of the world's brain cancer patients don't decide to test humanity's capacity for survival in their final days, so Kramer is absolutely a monster of the highest order.

And while Jigsaw categorically prevails in the first two movies with his last-minute rug-pull reveals, even following his death in the third film, he continues to prove himself a master puppeteer beyond the grave.

The rest of the franchise cooks up a laughably convoluted series of events featuring an impossible degree of planning on Jigsaw's part, and one which sees him triumph over his enemies again and again.

This reaches its nutty apex in the seventh film, Saw 3D, where Jigsaw recruits his old victim Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) to deal with the off-the-rails Jigsaw apprentice Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), cementing the apparent "integrity" of his legacy.

And the 2017 reboot-sequel Jigsaw takes this another step further, by ret-conning a secret first apprentice for Jigsaw, Logan (Matt Passmore), to continue his work in the present.

John Kramer may be dead, but as long as people will keep watching these movies, the legend of Jigsaw will never die. And as the series itself says, that is true immortality.