Every Saw Trap Ranked From Worst To Best

21. Spiral - The Hot Wax Trap

saw 2004
Lionsgate

Trap: Captain Angie Garza (Marisol Nichols) was strapped to a table with a blade below her neck. She had to sever her spinal cord with the knife in order to stop hot wax being poured onto her face.

This is Spiral's best trap. It's a seriously disturbing one - having to choose between severing your spine or dying is one of the most horrific choices a Saw victim has ever faced - and it's all made even worse by the fact that one of the film's best characters is the victim.

Speaking of which, the revelation that Angie Garza is, in fact, a corrupt cop was also a nastily effective twist and come to think of it, a hundred times better than the painfully obvious twist regarding who the killer was.

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