Every Saw Movie Ending Ranked Worst To Best

The End: Jigsaw was in the bathroom the whole time and he kills Adam.

It's hard to explain what it was like watching Saw for the first time back in 2004. The film's brutally suspenseful and brilliantly-written death game was finally over, the Jigsaw Killer was seemingly dead, and, at long last, it looked like viewers could breathe again.

Then, Adam (Leigh Whannell) finds a tape on the corpse of Zepp (Michael Emerson), the apparent Jigsaw Killer, and begins to play it; the tape reveals that Zepp was only a pawn. He's not the killer after all.

Then... the corpse in the bathroom, the real Jigsaw Killer, rises and a montage of the film's events plays, showing that the characters were never in control. Every single one of them was fooled by this killer and none of them ever knew who he was. Viewers never knew either.

Jigsaw turns out the lights and, as Adam screams desperately, coldly announces "Game over!" before slamming the door shut. Boom.

Everyone is deceived, evil wins, and it's all utterly, utterly haunting in every way. It took a while for viewers to get over the shock, but such a masterpiece of a twist ending was still an enthralling thing to witness.

This is the Holy Grail of Saw endings and it's very unlikely anything will ever match it.