Every Saw Movie Ranked Worst To Best
2. Saw
Obviously, no movie in the Saw franchise is as important, is as landscape-changing, and is as fondly remembered as the 2004 original. Still, while this is clearly an excellent film, it's just nudged out to second spot when ranking the series' nine movies.
This is the film which introduced us to the twisted games of John Kramer, this is the film which launched the career of modern-horror royalty James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and this is the film which delivered genuinely one of the greatest twist endings in horror history.
What Saw also does incredibly well, is it's viewed as one of the forefathers of the torture porn subgenre, yet it doesn't show as much on-screen violence as you're led to think. Yes, there's clearly a lot of gnarly stuff going on, clearly a lot of blood spilt, but this first movie shows a brilliant restraint in what it does and doesn't show to its audience; leaving you to fill in the chilling blanks of what may have just happened.
Saw is where it all fantastically began for a franchise that has so far brought home over $1 billion at the global box office, against a combined budget of less than $100 million.