#Jigsaw review

[hannahwatcheshorror]

JIGSAW (2017)

One of the most satisfying of the SAW movies. Cruel, ironic, puzzling, and intricate. I was concerned going in that this would be the beating of a dead horse but it was instead a song of triumph for the series. Heart Pounding, intoxicating, and sexy, this film is a worthy addition to an amazing series. The games and deaths felt deserved and purposeful but also fair and satisfying. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Jigsaw is back with five unsuspecting villains who need to work their way to confessing their crimes. Starting with chains leading them to saws, the first victim was unconscious and missed the rules thus "disqualifying" him. The rag tag team of misfits (brought together more by chance than common theme) meet a purse snatcher who is presented with an obvious solution to her poison problem but instead tries to leave the group hanging (ha). Acid in the blood frees the gang up but leaves them with three.

 An attempt to leave through a "no exit" door costs one hapless male his leg as he must choose not to let the other two people left drown in grain. The nephew killing conman is sent into a blender of sorts which leaves us with a daring duo who come face to face with John himself. The gun fires backwards, taking out our child killer while the drunken male is left for dead. Flash forward to the future where Logan, our doting protege of Jigsaw is getting jiggy with Halloran, the man who let criminals roam free, like the one that killed Logan’s wife. A stunning twist with a fake death reminiscent of the first film, what an amazing ode. "I speak for the dead."

JIGSAW REWATCH

I knew this movie had a version of grain suffocation in it but it made more sense to me because they were being buried in grains, I didn’t know until A QUIET PLACE that you can sink in from the top which is somehow more terrifying and stressful. And, I love that Logan stood up for Eleanor, but he totally almost got her shot by Halloran and that was also stressful.

This movie did a really fun version of the whole time jump thing without making a big show about it like in SAW II. It was very clever to have this be one of (if not the first) Jigsaw trap and yet also still be the 8th movie in line. Bringing back Tobin Bell as Jigsaw, not so much as flashbacks, but presently because we didn’t know how long ago the game was being played and the cult of Jigsaw was making it seem like John Kramer was still alive out there. Really a fun film that I am still impressed with. Wish it had a few more familiar faces but we got a bit spoiled by that from SAW 3D.

[horrorhussy]

My favourite Saw VI reviews, how we feeling?

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Letterboxd reviews for Saw X

[motherdanger]

has this been done yet ???

[mayorofloserville69]

She went through the 5 stages of grief

[hercarisntyours]

I hope you know your hadestown au has ruined me

“what does he care for the logic of kings, the laws of your underworld / it is only for love that he sings” has ALWAYS been Orion Pax coded to me

it's ruined me aswell dw, if I have to suffer with this so does everyone else /hj

UGHHH THAT'S SO ORION because what DOES he care 😭 I could go on and ONNNN about how orion coded orpheus and just how, hadestown and tf go hand in hand; ESPECIALLY NOW THEY'RE ALL PRETTY MUCH CANNONICALLY MINERS. Genuinely. This au has been living in my head rent free since about the time rotb came out I can't lie, when ever I would hear for example doubt comes in I couldn't help but imagine orion with that, that's how much I connect orion and orpheus LIKE HE WOULD GO TO THE WELL OF ALLSPARKS TO GET ARIEL BACK. HE WOULD MOVE WALLS AND GODS TO DO SO. all while inspiring the opressed to stand up to they're opressors, and now those thoughts are just hightened x100 with tfone orion. Even when I went to see hadestown, I came out thinking about how, tragically Orion and Ariel it is. "Have I made myself their lord, just to fall upon the sword; of some paupers minor chord" is another that just screams Orion to me, especially if gladiator megatronus is hades, because he did make him self the lord of the arena; just to fall when orion sang his song to the primes in the aligned universe (the one which this au started out as, not that megatron is hades i don't think idk I haven't decided)

tbh I've actually been meaning to post new hadestown au stuff but I've been stuck. trying to figure logistics out with other characters but I think I'm going to focus purely on arion/oplita for it rn, especially ariel and the fates (the seekers) because eurydice and the fates is one of my favourite arcs in the show (im lowkey in a writing rut/block 😔 i need help with this au I cannot lie)

I also think Eurydice is so, very Ariel/Elita. Especially an Elita who is feeling the distraught and dystopia of an opressed and climatic world. I think 'a gathering storm', "when the chips are down" and 'nothing changes' shows how I think of her in this au, the realist to orion's delusions. She's fighting for survival, but she has to give in because the hope so had got lost. She did what she had to.

Also, I think Elita is persephone coded, yeah this au is arion but the pain and estranged-ness of persades in this just reminds me of optimus being so far away, physically AND emotionally and Elita having to keep up cybertron; more specifically wfc netflix (I think a universe where Optimus falls down a path just like hades did would be so very good. He's so focused on making cybertron so full of love, he destroys it which pushes away his love)

"It's you"

"It's me"

🫦🫦🫦🫦 fUCKKKKKKKKK this au hurts my heart why did I let the brain rot procreate with the others brain rot

[pokcster]

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[pricelessreviews]

[citrine-elephant]

for the bitches (affectionate) who wanna put leon in a saw trap

-> john kramer is unfair as fuck and tries to convince himself he is doing good. whoever in-universe is tormenting leon, that should be considered

-> leon himself is a slave to the government right? it's not like he could easily go rogue and free himself. that's the theme. "breaking your chains" kinda shit. definitely acab/anti-capitalist/imperialist themes to interject here lol. but maybe the idea is to convince him to go rogue... or join whomever the baddie(s) are.

-> detective rigg was put in a trap because he was too focused on saving people. and i guess his tendency to breach doors w/o it being cleared. we know leon is willing to risk his life at a moment's notice to save someone, so that's definitely an idea lol. gets seriously injured trying to help someone... recovers... relives the horrors and is punished for it.

-> and to that point, leon's so willing to sacrifice himself. again, kramer is not fair and doesn't hold to his philosophy. he kills innocents all the time. you can absolutely include someone totally innocent in leon's trap.

use poetry to be cruel, is what i'm getting at. predict human behavior. or something. go with the intended philosophy and make them bitches hypocrites lol

currently brewing up an idea with a HEAVILY misguided group who convince themselves they're "the good guys" and absolutely do 0 good things. (like john going after corruption and greed) -> leads to "testing" leon to see if he's good enough for their cause. or, trying to convince him to join them with brutality. or even, they refuse to take a "no" from him and keep on with it.

[horrorhussy]

My favourite SAW IV reviews let’s go.

[freshhotflavors]

I love jigsaw puzzles!!!!!!! Here's a funky lil cat one I did recently

-rad

[motherdanger]

[visibly vibrating, foaming at the mouth, and trying very hard to remain calm after watching Saw X] I am happy to report that the Saw movies are back. ☺️

ok posted a review on my letterboxd. while nothing too specific mentioned, this review is not entirely spoiler-free.

[brokenyouth]

Jigsaw: (does some sociopathic shit)

His gays: honestly, work

[mayorofloserville69]

The final saw movie with wife :(

[hannahwatcheshorror]

SAW VI (2009)

SAW VI is the office edition (and no I do not mean The Office), this film takes nearly all of its victims from the same office building (and they are all in their little business suits and such). The theme is very cohesive but overall the movie is weak, especially when compared to the films that came before it. It still ties in the SAW storyline in a nice way but isn’t nearly as fun or exciting as the other installments. 

⭐⭐⭐

The office in question is a health insurance office that is very cut throat in their policies (what insurance company these days isn’t?). Their dogged refusal to insure the seriously ill cost many their lives which is why they are all chosen for this movie's game. Hoffman and Jill Tuck are the Jigsaw stand-ins for this movie and they are using instructions from a box that John Kramer left Jill in SAW V. This is supposedly John’s final game, his last will and testament. The game begins with the head of the office in chains and what appears to be his family (mother and son) in a cage somewhere far away (there is also a reporter opposite them).

The Boss's first challenge is just to hold his own against a smoker, no problem there, but then he is presented with choosing between a healthy young man or an older woman. This is normally an easy choice for him considering the older woman is statistically more likely to die sooner but when faced with actually picking who lives and who dies he chooses the woman to live because she has a family who would miss her. This is just about the only redeeming thing he does. Next he attempts to lead a coworker through a steam maze but it ends in a fight and she dies (this is lucky for the main dude though because the key to her vest was inside of him, yikes).

Next he finds his nasty workers (the ones who find all the sick people to kick out) strapped to a playground's merry-go-round only it has a shotgun pointed at it. He can pick two people to save and the rest get shot point blank. This was a rough scene especially for our last victim who demanded the boss look him in the eyes when he was being murdered. That was the second decent thing that man did.

While the game is afoot, Hoffman is discovered but only by three cops and he disposes of them quickly and easily. He has to leave and miss part of the game though and during that time Jill comes in and does some sneaky business, like dropping the note off that Hoffman left for Amanda way back in SAW III that linked her to when John and Jill lost their baby. Turns out it was really Hoffman that made Amanda shoot the doc which triggered her getting shot and her failing her test (and losing her life).

Finally the game is over, (right?) the boss man gets to the “family” room and runs towards… the reporter? Turns out the reporter is his sister, the mother and son are a family he fucked over by not insuring the father so the dad died. And guess who gets to decide Mr. Boss Man's fate? The Mother won’t flip the kill switch but that child had hate in his heart and no dad there to quell it so he killed that man dead. And last but certainly not least, our own Hoffman was made to wear a bear trap headpiece from like from SAW (original) as his test. He barely passed.

[james-stark-the-writer]

hey, Saw V But Again is actually really fucking good! genuinely had a blast with this and the third act was so fun to piece together, genuinely that last 30 minutes saves it from being kind of generic and mediocre; but the rest of the movie was still pretty fun, the third act just really sells it. also the closest one of these movies comes to actually saying ACAB, especially compared to the plot of Saw IV, where the plot was "the police cares too much about people."

My ★★★★ review of Jigsaw on Letterboxd