
Rather than killing his victims outright, he traps them in life-threatening situations that he calls "tests" or "games" to test their will to survive through physical or psychological torture, believing that if they survive, they will be "rehabilitated". John Kramer was introduced briefly in Saw and developed in more detail in Saw II and the subsequent films. Set in an unnamed city in the United States, the first eight films primarily revolve around the fictional serial killer John "Jigsaw" Kramer, while the ninth movie revolves around a copycat killer while still keeping continuity with the previous films.

Contains content recommended for viewing by adults only.Saw is a horror franchise created by Australian film makers James Wan and Leigh Whannell, consisting of nine feature films and additional media. | Rated "18" - Suitable only for persons aged 18 years and over.

There is also frequent use of strong language ("f*ck"), as well as one aggressive use of very strong language ("c*nt"). | OTHER ISSUES - There are some scenes of strong bloody violence, such as a man stabbing several people in the throat and a man repeatedly slamming a woman's head into a table. All of the "trap" sequences are very intense. These images of gore are very explicit and sustained, and there is a significant focus on the prolonged suffering and anticipation of death from the victims.

Some of these sequences include a woman being cut in half by a circular saw causing blood and intestines to spray everywhere, a woman having a hook being pulled from inside her stomach and out of her mouth while she coughs up blood and pieces of flesh, a woman slowly being impaled through they eyes and mouth by metal spikes causing excessive blood spurting, a woman having an apparatus placed on her head which rips her mouth open causing blood and gore to spurt and her tongue to fall out of her mouth, a man having to tear his back skin away from a seat he has been glued to causing very bloody injury detail, as well as many other examples. A number of gory horror sequences involve people in elaborate death traps that are designed to cause as much physical trauma and pain to the victims as possible. MAIN CONTENT ISSUES - There is frequent, very graphic and prolonged scenes of gore and bloody injury detail, as well as sadistic horror and threat.
