20 AWFUL Horror Movie Moments You Wish You Could Forget
12. Saw 3D: You Call That A Franchise Ending?
Alright, it's time to drop a massive hot take: the reboot of the Saw franchise in 2017 was kind-of justified. Kind-of. I mean, who'd have wanted to leave things like this? Saw 3D is one of the worst franchise 'endings' of recent times - compared to this, Rise of Skywalker looks outright masterful.
In this one, Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is trying to capture and kill Jill Tuck, Jigsaw's ex-wife, in revenge for her trying to kill him, while one of the most annoying cops in horror movie history (Chad Donella) chases him. Eventually, Hoffman manages to kill Jill, but then he's punished for this by being left to die in the bathroom from the first movie by none other than Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes).
As pretty much everyone guessed long before the fact, Lawrence Gordon is indeed another Jigsaw apprentice, which was a classic case of logic being sacrificed in favour of fan-service. Why would Gordon join forces with the man who nearly killed his family?
Nothing about this feels like any sort of an ending to the overall story, and Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) himself barely even appears. It was later revealed that there was meant to be a Saw VIII to finish everything off but, after Saw VI's box-office returns dropped, they hastily reworked the finale into one movie. They would've been better off sticking to the two-movie plan but then again, horror franchises often put box office returns over artistic dignity.