The Saw Traps in Saw 3D

The Saw series is here once again. Five films that have dealt an unremitting legacy of pain upon characters that dismissed their lives or led them down a corrupt path. And movie-goers have cringed and had their gag reflex tested time after time as the franchise introduced them to Rube Goldberg-esque traps which have become known for rending flesh, snapping bone and spilling blood.

One of the main focuses of the Saw film series are the traps that the character Jigsaw and his apprentices, Amanda and Hoffman, create for their victims. In the movies, the serial murderer, Jigsaw, places individuals into traps for having wasted or misused their lives; each trap serving the purpose of testing the victim's will to live. As such, these devices force subjects into near-death situations where they are typically given the opportunity to either save themselves or die. In accordance with Jigsaw's ideology, the traps are meant to act as a form of immediate rehabilitation for the subject upon completion, supposedly rewarding the survivor with a new lease on life and ridding them of their vices that is if the subject doesn't fail and die, which is usually the case.

This year a new kind of the traps will you experience as the Saw 3D will hit this theater this October 29, 2010. Shock Till You Drop decided to take a look back at the first five films in the series to pick our personal ten favorite saw traps so let the game begin.