You know, from before “Saw III” and “Saw IV” turned Kramer into hamburger meat and forced us down an endless path of time shifts and copycat killers. Most people know “Saw” for its ...

One of the most confounding decisions a major franchise has ever made comes in Saw III. After an impressively emotional and surprisingly gory one hundred minutes comes the shock of the century.

Whannell, who also starred as Adam in the first film, went on to direct the next two films. “Saw III” ended up becoming the highest-earning film from the franchise ($165 million globally), per ...