18 Insanely Messed Up Movies You Might Not Be Able To Handle

The Saw franchise is infamous for its grisly trap-based death scenes and while many of them could've been on this list, Saw III is definitely the nastiest of the bunch and therefore deserves a spot the most. It's also where the franchise started to fall apart and focus on gore instead of the thought-provoking themes that define the franchise's better films.

Longer than the other Saw films, Saw III is nearly two hours of sadistic pain. One of the best characters from the first two movies, Detective Allison Kerry (Dina Meyer), gets her rib cage ripped out in the Angel trap, another man has half his head blown away by a shotgun, another woman has her head blown off by an explosive collar... but that's not even the worst of it. Oh no.

Saw III also boasts the single nastiest trap in the history of the franchise: the Rack, which twists off the victims's limbs one by one before finally twisting their neck around and breaking it. Yikes.

There's even an entirely superfluous and highly graphic scene in which brain surgery is performed on John Kramer/Jigsaw, further showing this film's commitment to gore and gross-out content above all else. It'll succeed in disgusting viewers but it won't leave them feeling happy, especially when the unnecessarily depressing and mean-spirited ending - in which protagonist Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) fails his test and unintentionally kills his own wife - comes along.