Saw I was the original Saw, the beginning, and where it all started. Jigsaw, saw it all as a giant test. He was, of course, insane but it was his mind that gave the show its splendor. Also, right of the bat you don't know who the Jigsaw is, there is accusations and then you find out who really is the Jigsaw and culprit. The way his game is talked about at certain points, it makes it sound-like its unwinable, however, someone did make it out alive so it may be hard but it is not impossible and not completely unfair. Close to the beginning, when the two men (Adam and Dr. Gordon) are chained in the bathroom, no one understands what is going on. Then they hear what is going on and realize they are in real trouble. You want to hear what is a real nightmare, especially if you can't wake up, I'll tell you what, having a poison in you and an antidote for the poison in your body from a safe, and the combination is scrambled on the room's walls, while you only have a candle for light while yourself being covered in a flammable substance and having to walk over broken glass. I told you that, that would be a real nightmare. Saw I was a good start to the franchise.
Saw II was the sequel to Saw I. Saw II picks up very close to where the first one ends. First thing it shows is a small game that someone can't bring himself to win and he loses and gets killed. After that Jigsaw is caught be the police but doesn't even lose his edge. On the screens in front of him there is another game in progress, this one involves 8 people. Daniel (Eric Matthew's son), Amanda (who was sentenced to prison after being framed by Daniel's father, Gus (a businessman), Obi (who had aided Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims in the house), Jonas (who is implied that he had been part of a gang), Xavier Chavez (who is a sociopathic drug dealer), Laura (who becomes physically weaker as the game progress), and Addison (a prostitute). Everyone gets picked off, theoretically even Eric, and Amanda is revealed to have been on Jigsaws side the whole time as his protégé.
Saw III is the third part to the Saw Franchise. At the start, it is revealed that Eric Matthews escaped, in a rather painfully manner, but escaped alive nevertheless. Some time passes after that is revealed, and then Jigsaw does someone called Jeff Denlon a "favor". He sets Jeff up with some people that are have let his sons killer get away and eventually the killer himself.. The first person is Danica Scott who refused to testify against his son's killer. When he goes through a door, he enters a meat freezer. Danica is being suspended in mid air by chains which are holding her hands together while being out stretched completely naked being sprayed at random intervals with freezing cold water. Danica and Jeff have a conversation and either Danica is very charismatic or Jeff is a really nice guy, because despite there past conflict he attempts to retrieve a key that would save her life. However, he takes to long and she freezes to death before he can save her. Next, he finds himself with a large vat with Judge Halden chained at the neck at the bottom in it. The vat starts to fill up with liquefied pig corpses, but Jeff (more reluctantly this time) attempts to and succeeds in saving the Judge. The pair (Jeff and Halden) come to a room where Jeff's son's killer is chained up. The killer (Timothy Young) is immensely tortured and Jeff (being a nice guy) eventually is convinced by Halden to let Young go. Jeff does so but accidentally releases a trap that kills the Judge and the killer gets killed anyway. In the scene that follows it seems like everyone loses, almost... Lynn ( Jeff's wife) is in a room with a bedridden John Kramer (Jigsaw) and Amanda. After hearing John declared his love out loud to a hallucination, Amanda leaves the room distressed. When she returns she shots Lynn in the back as Jeff comes in who retaliates by shooting her in the neck. With Amanda's last minutes of life, John reluctantly tells her that she had failed a final test. After she dies, John offers Jeff to call an ambulance for Lynn in the form of a final test. He tells Jeff that he must choose between killing John and forgiving him. As Jeff says he forgives John, he slashes John's throat with a circular saw. The sickroom seals itself as John plays a tape recorder, which in turn, reveals that Jeff has failed the test by killing John, who was the only person to know Corbett's (Jeff's daughter) whereabouts. The tape ends as John dies, and the collar simultaneously activates and kills Lynn, leaving Jeff to despair, trapped in the locked sickroom.
Saw IV is the part after Jigsaw (John Kramer) is killed. In this part, it is revealed that Jigsaw had another protégé (fellow apprentice of Amanda) who was also assisting him with the killings and tests. The movie starts off having a waxed covered tape removed from the dead body of Jigsaw. The entire movie takes place on the tape. At the end of it, you see who the protégé is and then it ends.
Saw V continues not long after Saw IV. Jigsaw is still dead and his attorney is administering his will. Traps are still flying everywhere, Hoffman is still out there and Jigsaw's ex-wife has received a box and a videotape, in which John stresses the importance of the box's contents. Hoffman gets promoted to detective lieutenant. Meanwhile, 5 people get trapped in a underground room and 3 out of 5 of them get killed. More finger pointing is made, this time at who is the accomplice. Although none realizes who the real accomplice is.
Saw VI, I watched this one on October 23, 2009. In this movie, Hoffman escapes from his glass and the police get close to catching him. Erickson and Perez bring Hoffman to a site where a technician is unscrambling a voice. The technician succeeds and after Hoffman hears his own voice, he slashes Erickson's jugular vein and stabs Perez to death. Erickson is still alive as Hoffman pours gasoline over him and sets the lab on fire to destroy the evidence. However, the film ends with Jill Tuck attempting to kill Hoffman.
Saw VII, also known as Saw 3D or Saw: The Final Chapter. This movie wraps up the entire franchise. Hoffman survies and Jill goes to turn him in. Hoffman infiltrates the police headquarters and kills everyone up between him and Jill. When he reaches her he knocks her out and puts the original Reverse Bear-trap to her head killing her graphically. Lawrence Gordon enters. and then it is revealed that Lawrence has been helping Jigsaw in secret. Lawrence was supposed to be watching over Jill. He brings Hoffman to the bathroom from the first film and shackles him by the ankle. He tosses the hacksaw he had sawed his own foot off with far from Hoffman's reach, and then seals the door to the bathroom, leaving an outraged Hoffman to die.
