11 Best 'Gameshow' Horror Films

Of course, the film that kicked off the torture-porn trend and prides itself on locking helpless victims into rooms they must kill their way out of, Saw is intrinsic to the ‘mind games’ horror genre, and forms a large part of it through eight of its own entries into the franchise.

Locked in a grimy bathroom trying to figure out a way to break free from their shackles and crawl their way to freedom, Saw started something big from a relatively tiny idea. It was one that has launched James Wan into the Hollywood stratosphere, and changed the face of horror in the process. Most fans of film, horror or not, will have seen at least part of one of these films at some point in their life - with its effect on pop culture as lasting as ever and releases still being pumped out today. Yeah, it’s a big deal.