Jigsaw

No, it's a pretty lame story actually.

So this was right when I'd started, like right when my channel had started picking up, I think It was 2016 or 2017 when the trailer for Jigsaw came out.

And I was like, this was back when I would do like things you missed episodes on just a trailer and not an entire movie.

And so I wanted to fully understand it and fully be able to break it down.

He doesn't know that he's in it, and it really is just like a trap in...

the strictest sense of the word rather than a survival game.

There are a number of traps in the series that are just like a punishment, not for something of the person's character, but just for like being a law enforcement guy that's going after Jigsaw.

Exactly.

If you can't, and like, like how long, like, well, like let me say, it wasn't a long movie.

No, it was Jigsaw.

Spiral? No, you're right.

It was Jigsaw.

Runtime, it's 92 minutes.

And that's credits in there, too.

And in 2026, we're watching the entire Saw franchise, including some short films that we watched last month, which were quite a slog to get through.

This month, we're back to the feature-length films with 2017's Jigsaw.

the return of the series after quite a lengthy break.

But is this return worth it? We'll figure that out in a bit.

Before we start talking about Jigsaw, which came out seven years after the previous movie, Saw 3D, we do have some other things to talk about.

Erica, you said you had something Saw-related you wanted to discuss.

it wasn't anything new.

if we're just looking at the one one L trilogy, which they were all like, they were ending it there for them.

But then you've also got...

What did Terrify 4 come out? You've also got Spiral from the Book of Saw, and one that came out recently called Jigsaw.

Oh, that's right, yeah.

Yeah.

Despite my appreciation for Ana Dimas.

Okay, so yeah, Saw 3 was number one at the box office when this episode originally aired.

Oh, a better time when, you know, you could just, you know, have Jigsaw playing his devious games and everyone would just line up for it.

Saw worked because it was like, you can actually envision yourself in that situation.

Jokes don't always make sense when you're just doing it in the heat of the moment.

I said, Jigsaw is libertarian.

Yeah.

I actually don't think that's true.

I don't think sausage is libertarian.

It may be socialist.

I also don't think Jigsaw is libertarian.

It was a joke.

character that died so early.

They bring her back more often than Jigsaw, which, you know, kind of makes sense because this is a James Wan produced film.

Out of these movies, I think I've seen maybe the first one.

We already did a review for the last one, which was Insidious with the Red Door, it was called.

Not saying it's a bad thing, [laughs] just saying weird way to sell it.

It is in fact the latest from German-Australian filmmakers, the Spirig brothers, whose CV includes the sci-fi thriller Predestination, the Saw film Jigsaw, which I quite liked, and the biographical horror movie Winchester, for which you interviewed Helen Mirren.

Oh, yes, I remember.

She came into the studio.