History Franchise / Saw

The series managed to spawn two video game adaptations. In addition, the multiplayer horror game ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' released a DLC based on the series in 2018. It features Detective Tapp and Amanda Young as playable characters, and includes a map based on the various films' locations.

A comic book titled ''Saw: Rebirth'' was published alongside the release of ''Saw II'' in both physical and digital format. The comic revolved around Jigsaw's backstory and life before he began his crusade as a killer, though the events that happened in it were eventually retconned by ''Saw IV'', which had a different version of his past as one of its main plot lines.

* Saw/TropesGToZ

After the first movie originally premiered in January of its year at the Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate Entertainment theatrically released the first seven films in the franchise on the week prior to Halloween for six years in a row, from 2004 to 2010. The seventh installment, titled ''Saw 3D'', was renamed ''Saw: The Final Chapter'' for its home video release. According to WordOfGod, the series was supposed to end with an eighth film, but due to the poor box office performance of ''Saw VI'', ExecutiveMeddling worked the plots of the original ''Saw VII'' and ''Saw VIII'' into ''Saw 3D''. In October 2016, a new film under the working title ''Saw: Legacy'' was announced to be in production. The title was later changed to ''[[AntagonistTitle Jigsaw]]'', and the film was released on October 27, 2017. A ninth film, ''Spiral'', was announced in February 2020, ultimately being released in May 2021.

After the first movie originally premiered in January of its year at the Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate Entertainment theatrically released the first seven films in the franchise on the week prior to Halloween for six years in a row, from 2004 to 2010. The seventh installment, titled ''Saw 3D'', was renamed ''Saw: The Final Chapter'' for its home video release. According to WordOfGod, the series was supposed to end with an eighth film, but due to the poor box office performance of ''Saw VI'', ''Saw VIII'''s plot was worked into ''Saw 3D''. In October 2016, a new film under the working title ''Saw: Legacy'' was announced to be in production. The title was later changed to ''[[AntagonistTitle Jigsaw]]'', and the film was released on October 27, 2017. A ninth film, ''Spiral'', was announced in February 2020, ultimately being released in May 2021.

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!!WARNING: These pages contain no small number of spoilers, but many of the trope examples in them will assume you have knowledge of the spoilers of the first four films -- and as such, those spoilers will go untagged. Even then it's advised to have finished the series first. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Read on or go back]] -- [[CatchPhrase make your choice]].

!!WARNING: These pages contain no small number of spoilers, but many of the trope examples in them will assume you have knowledge of the spoilers of the first four films -- and as such, those spoilers will go untagged. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Read on or go back]] -- [[CatchPhrase make your choice]].

!!WARNING: These pages contain no small number of spoilers, but many of the trope examples in them will assume you have knowledge of the spoilers revealed by the endings of the first four films -- and as such, those spoilers will go untagged. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Read on or go back]] -- [[CatchPhrase make your choice]].

* [[Foreshadowing/{{Saw}} Foreshadowing]]

* ''The Scott Tibbs Documentary (2005; DVD bonus material for ''Film/SawII'')

''Saw'' is an American horror franchise -- composed chiefly of a series of films -- that originally started with the release of the first film of the same title, which was directed and written by Australian filmmakers Creator/JamesWan and Leigh Whanell. It centers around a PoeticSerialKiller dubbed "The Jigsaw Killer" (or just "Jigsaw"), who places people in {{Death Trap}}s and gives them a chance to escape before death claims them. Jigsaw designs each trap as a violent form of poetic justice by reflecting what Jigsaw sees as the vital flaw of its victim(s). To escape these traps -- or [[DeadlyGame "games"]], as Jigsaw calls them -- the victims must typically harm either themselves or others in some horrific way to escape their impending (and horrific) death. The films' storylines center around the victims' efforts to escape their traps, the attempts by law enforcement to catch Jigsaw, Jigsaw's life, and his connection to the films' other characters.

The series managed to spawn two video game adaptations. In addition, the multiplayer horror game ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' released in 2018 a DLC based on the series. It features Detective Tapp and Amanda Young as playable characters, and includes a map based on the various films' locations.

''Saw'' is an American horror franchise -- composed chiefly of a series of films -- that originally started with the release of the first film of the same title, which was directed and written by Australian filmmakers Creator/JamesWan and Leigh Whanell. It centers around a PoeticSerialKiller dubbed "The Jigsaw Killer" (or just "Jigsaw"), who places people in {{Death Trap}}s and gives them a chance to escape before death claims them. Jigsaw designs each trap as a violent form of poetic justice by reflecting what Jigsaw sees as the vital flaw of its victim(s). To escape these traps -- or [[DeadlyGame "games"]], as Jigsaw calls them -- the victims must typically harm either themselves or others in some horrific way to escape their impending (and horrific) death. The films' storylines center around the victims' efforts to escape their traps, Jigsaw's life, and his connection to the films' other characters.