10 Opening Horror Movie Scenes That Should've Been Cut
2. The Love Triangle Trap - Saw: The Final Chapter
It's customary that the Saw movies open with a gnarly opening death sequence, but The "Final" Chapter's daylight-set love triangle trap is an absolute head-scratcher among the series.
In an attempt to change-up the franchise's formula, the opening trap takes place in broad daylight, with two young men, Brad (Sebastian Pigott) and Ryan (Jon Cor), chained up by a power saw each while their mutual lover, Dina (Anne Greene), is chained up above a third saw.
Brad and Ryan are tasked with either killing each other in order to save Dina, or they can walk away from the manipulative, two-timing Dina and leave her to be cleaved in half by the third saw.
Dina attempts to manipulate each of the lads into killing the other, though they eventually decide she's not worth it and allow the third saw to slice her in two.
The sequence just feels totally off for a few reasons - namely, the daytime setting adds nothing but takes a lot of the series' signature atmosphere away, and killing a woman for daring to cheat on two men seems absurd, if not outright misogynistic, even for Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) twisted standards.
Apparently the scene was changed substantially when a planned eighth Saw film was cancelled, with the scripts for the two movies being combined into a single, very messy whole.
Originally, we would've seen Jigsaw in the crowd, revealing that he knew that Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) was placing people in unfair and unjust traps, and the ending would've revealed that Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) was also in the crowd alongside him.
Oh, and Brad and Ryan would've been revealed as the two other pig-headed figures helping Gordon at the end of the movie.
Yet with so many elements changed during production, nothing about the scene really makes much sense, and the film could've just picked up with the immediate aftermath of Saw VI, as Hoffman escapes the reverse bear trap and continues his rampage.