Top 20 Most BRUTAL Deaths in the Saw Movies
#20: Obi Tate
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“Saw II” (2005) Burning may not be as grandiose a demise as the others on this list, but we shudder to think of anything more painful. In the second movie, Obi is actually revealed to have assisted Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims. But he didn’t plan on being put into the game himself, and when his secret is revealed, he proves none too popular. As penance, Xavier forces Obi to enter the furnace trap to retrieve a couple antidotes to the nerve agent spreading throughout the house. Obi complies, but accidentally triggers the mechanism. Trapped inside with the furnace blazing full-force, Obi can do nothing but stick his head out the window and shriek in pain as the rest of him is burned alive.
#19: Dina
“Saw 3D” (2010) You gotta figure that in a horror series called “Saw,” some people are gonna die by the titular tool. The first trap of this installment emphasizes this in all the grisly glory of 3D. On display in a public square, Dina finds herself suspended above her two lovers, Brad and Ryan. The boys are pitted against each other, whereby one of them has to push a saw blade into the other before the timer expires - otherwise, the same will happen to Dina. Dina, virtually helpless, goads them each into sacrificing the other, making them realize they’re both being played. After they both stop struggling, Dina can do nothing but watch as the saw makes a mess out of her midsection.
#18: Paul Leahy
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“Saw” (2004) The first traditional trap we see in the series, this one is virtually inescapable. It sees Paul placed in a basement with his escape door wide open. However in his way is a maze of razor wiring. While most victims have only a minute to complete their tasks, Paul has a whopping two hours. But it’s easier said than done, as navigating the maze becomes more gruelingly tricky the longer it goes on. Lacerations made to Paul’s body cause him to lose more blood the deeper he goes. He finally passes out, and eventually, passes away. While we’re not sure Paul deserved to be tested, the result certainly speaks for itself.
#17: Lynn Denlon
“Saw III” (2006) While Lynn doesn’t go through any physical labors herself, her test is taxing all the same. She’s tasked with keeping a cancer-ridden John Kramer alive while her husband Jeff completes a series of trials. If John lives to see Jeff finish, she’ll be relieved of the shotgun collar around her neck. If John flatlines, the device will go off. Despite having to perform drastic brain surgery and enduring endless verbal abuse from Amanda, Lynn is surprisingly successful. But when Amanda shoots her, Jeff is compelled to retaliate. He kills Amanda in turn, then takes a circular saw to John himself, unaware of the shotgun collar. John dies, and so too does Lynn.
#16: Evan, Kara, Dan & Jake
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“Saw 3D” (2010) There are a lot of despicable people in the “Saw” franchise, but a band of racists is something else. So it should be a surprise to no one that they all suffer brutal fates. Awakening in a garage, Evan finds his back glued to a car’s upholstery. Also restrained are Evan’s friends, who will similarly die if he doesn’t peel himself away and pull a lever just out of arm’s reach. As much as he strains, Evan is unable to complete the task in the allotted time, prompting a tire to drop on Kara’s face. The car then zooms off, taking pieces of Dan with it and running over Jake in the process. The subsequent crash sends Evan through the windshield, leaving no survivors.
#15: Seth Baxter
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“Saw V” (2008) Unfortunately for Seth, his game is unwinnable. But he doesn’t know that, and ultimately causes himself more grief than was necessary. After Seth kills Mark Hoffman’s sister and eventually walks due to a technicality, Hoffman looks to take revenge. He constructs an elaborate Jigsaw trap to avoid suspicion and plops Seth smack dab in the middle of it. Seth is then prompted to crush his own hands, else a swinging pendulum lowers down and hacks away at his abdomen. Seth complies, but finds the pendulum running through his body anyway. The walls are redecorated with Seth’s insides, all while Hoffman gets to watch the life drain out of him.
#14: Suzanne
“Saw 3D” (2010) Thanks to the 3D on display, we knew to expect a lot of in-your-face bloodletting. But it doesn’t get more in your face than this. Bobby’s lawyer who’s complicit in him falsifying being a Jigsaw survivor, Suzanne finds herself in a trap for real - only, it’s not her game to play. To save her from having sharp rods sent through her eyes and mouth, Bobby must lift a heavy weight. While he does so, a mechanism pierces his obliques, making it extremely difficult for him to endure. Of course, he fails with just seconds left, and Suzanne is lifted all the way through the rods. It’s a seriously bloody demise.
#13: Eddie
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“Saw VI” (2009) Much like Seth Baxter, Eddie ends up injuring himself severely to no avail. A pair of money lenders, Eddie and Simone are pitted against each other for preying on desperate people and effectively plunging them into debt. They each have to sacrifice parts of their bodies, with whomever offering more poundage being spared. Eddie quickly takes to slicing off parts of his torso, establishing an early lead. Falling behind, Simone hastily removes her own arm, putting her ahead at the buzzer. The loser, Eddie has drills dig into his temples, proving his survival instinct wasn’t as strong as Simone’s.
#12: Joyce Dagen
“Saw 3D” (2010) If there’s one person who least deserved to be put in a trap, it’s Joyce Dagen. The oblivious wife to the lying Bobby, Joyce is forced to watch as he fails to save his conspirators. Last but not least, he has to complete the test he pretended to have endured to save the woman he loves most. He has to insert hooks into his pectoral muscles then hoist himself up to connect two extension cables. Despite Bobby giving it the old college try, his muscles ultimately buckle under his own weight. The timer runs out, and a brazen bull forms around Joyce. She’s subsequently cooked alive, while Bobby’s punishment is merely having to listen to her cries of agony.
#11: Allison Kerry
“Saw III” (2006) Detective Allison Kerry is another person who doesn’t deserve to be tested by Jigsaw. Even worse, her game is also designed to be unwinnable, making her a truly tragic character. After being kidnapped, Kerry is placed in a device that’s attached to her rib cage. The alleged key to her freedom is right in front of her, but unfortunately, it’s at the bottom of a jar of acid. Showing her resolve, Kerry endures the pain to retrieve the key, but it doesn’t free her as advertised. Instead, Kerry is forced to accept her fate as the villainous Amanda arrives to admire her work.
#10: Michael Marks
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“Saw II” (2005) The “Saw” franchise knows how to start strong, giving audiences a nasty taste of gore before the plot reveals itself. “Saw II” has one of the best openers in the series. Poor Michael awakens like many others in a dark room. Jigsaw’s video tells him he must retrieve a key from behind his own eye. If he doesn’t do it quickly enough, the Venus flytrap-like device around his neck will activate. Having to cut into your own eye has to be one of the most difficult, painful instructions to follow. Unfortunately for Michael, he doesn’t make it. As he screams for help, the two halves of the spiked mask close, silencing him for good.
#9: Nina
“Saw 3D” (2010) This one makes our throats ache just thinking about it. Much like his lawyer, Bobby Dagen’s publicist Nina is put in a trap of her own for helping him perpetuate his lies. Nina is strapped to a chair, and the key that can free her is tied to a string leading down her throat… along with a fish hook. Bobby has sixty seconds to yank the key out, but the more Nina screams, the closer four metal spikes move towards her throat. Needless to say, the hook makes Nina scream quite a bit, and she doesn’t make it.
#8: Brad Halloran
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“Jigsaw” (2017) With a seven-year break after “Saw 3D,” the series came back strong - at least in the gory kills department - with “Jigsaw.” One of its most brutal took place at the very end. Detective Brad Halloran, having frequently released criminals for his own gain, found himself chasing the ghost of John Kramer ten years after his death. By the end, he was at the mercy of Jigsaw’s secret apprentice, Logan Nelson. Coupled with Logan’s plot twist was a trap more technologically advanced than most others in the series: a collar with several lasers pointing upwards. With a push of the button, the lasers lowered and sliced through his head, turning it into one seriously disturbing flower of gore and viscera.
#7: Angie Garza
“Spiral” (2021) This “Saw” spinoff follows a Jigsaw copycat killer and the police force attempting to stop them. Leading the force is Captain Angie Garza. Although, being on this list, her position clearly doesn’t keep her safe. Garza is kidnapped at one point and made to play the copycat’s game. Accusing her of covering up police corruption, the copycat straps her to a table with a blade directly below her neck. Angie must cut through her spinal cord to stop hot wax from covering her face. Despite her best, painful efforts, Angie is unsuccessful. It’s a savage demise to be sure, made worse by the fact that Detective Zeke Banks was mere moments too late to rescue her.
#6: Mitch
“Jigsaw” (2017) Most victims of Jigsaw have wronged other people. But Mitch was a special case in that his actions led to the death of someone Jigsaw cared for. Upon waking in a trap-filled barn, Mitch confesses to having sold a motorcycle to a guy who then got into a fatal accident. What you don’t find out until later is that this was Jigsaw’s nephew and that Mitch knew it had faulty brakes. For his punishment, Mitch is lowered upside down into a funnel surrounded by burning hot coils, which are spun via the same motorcycle. Despite Anna’s best efforts to rescue him, and Mitch being close to the break handle that would save him, Mitch is mutilated and turned into a mushy mess.
#5: Eric Matthews
“Saw IV” (2007) It seemed by the end of “Saw II,” corrupt Detective Eric Matthews was left for dead by Jigsaw. But that wasn’t the case. In actuality, he nearly escaped by breaking his own foot and was kept alive to be used as a piece in another twisted game. In “Saw IV,” Officer Daniel Rigg followed tests in order to rescue Matthews. While Rigg did find him, it was the very act of opening a door to him that sealed his fate. It caused two massive blocks of ice to come slamming down. At least this gnarly display isn’t drawn out. His confinement and the fact that he very nearly survived Jigsaw twice make it especially hurtful.
#4: Peter Strahm
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“Saw V” (2008) For FBI Agent Peter Strahm, it’s both the nature of his death and how easily it could’ve been avoided that make it brutal. On the trail of Detective Mark Hoffman, another of Jigsaw’s apprentices, Strahm follows him to a derelict house and finds a tape player. It instructs him to climb inside a glass box. Thinking he’s making the smart decision, Strahm attacks Hoffman before finishing the tape and places him inside instead. If he had finished listening first, he would’ve found out that entering the box was the only way to avoid the trap. The walls then began closing in with no way to stop them, crushing Strahm while Hoffman watched from safety. The bone-crunching sound effects are absolutely disgusting.
#3: Jill Tuck
“Saw 3D” (2010) Ever since being teased in the original “Saw,” fans were dying to see what the Reverse Bear Trap could do. And they finally got to see the results in all their gory glory in “Saw 3D.” Part of this seventh entry chronicles Jigsaw’s ex-wife, Jill Tuck, working to get Detective Hoffman arrested for his crimes. Unfortunately for Jill, Hoffman gets to her before this can happen. As was the case with many victims before her, Jill awoke strapped to a chair with her life about to end. The trap opened her jaw in gruesome fashion, making nauseating use of this entry’s 3D. Hoffman would finally get what was coming to him shortly after, but he went out with a bang.
#2: Timothy Young
“Saw III” (2006) The main focus of “Saw III” is Jeff Denlon, a man whose son was killed by a drunk driver. He makes his way through trap rooms, either choosing to save or condemn those who played a part in his son’s death. Naturally, the most grisly death is saved for the driver. Jeff comes across Timothy Young in a rack of sorts, with all four appendages and his neck trapped in twisting mechanisms. As the clock winds down, each mechanism twists and breaks whatever it’s attached too. Despite Jeff deciding to forgive Timothy, he can’t save him. The slow, one-by-one nature of the trap is agonizing, with the actor’s screams really selling it and the sound design being more gag-inducing than even Strahm’s death.
#1: William Easton
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“Saw VI” (2009) The sixth installment didn’t do as well at the box office as most other entries, but that doesn’t mean it was without nasty details. Most of the movie follows William Easton, an executive of a health insurance company known for denying those in need, including John Kramer. Working his way through a trap-laden building, William tries to save his fellow victims and underlings. He makes it through the entire ordeal only to have his life placed in the hands of family members of someone he denied medical coverage. A vengeful son flips a switch, bringing a bed of hydrofluoric acid-filled needles down on William and melting him from the inside out. It’s revolting and savagely violent, all the good things “Saw” is made of.
