10 Scumbag Horror Movie Protagonists We STILL Rooted For
6. Jigsaw - Saw X
Despite the previous nine Saw movies making it painfully clear that John Kramer aka Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is an unforgivably cruel human being who, directly or indirectly, caused the deaths of dozens of people, Saw X did a fantastic job of making us cheer him on anyway.
The brilliance of this prequel, set between the first two movies, is that like Don't Breathe and Orphan: First Kill, it makes a morally repugnant character face off against someone even worse.
Case in point, the film's big hook is that Kramer takes aim against a group of con artists who took his money while falsely claiming to have cured his inoperable cancer.
Throughout the film, Kramer is only victimising unambiguously awful people who are doing something even sicker than he - siphoning money from the weak, dying, and desperate.
Kramer's horrifying past and future actions are never far from our minds while watching Saw X, and yet, given who he targets throughout the film - especially the scam's vile leader, Cecilia Pederson (Synnøve Macody Lund) - it's shockingly easy to cheer him on.