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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett Collection(Warning: Spoilers for the Saw franchise, including the latest film, Saw X, follow.)Over two decades and 10 films, there’s only one major reason that the Saw franchise has managed to garner such a massive cult following: its brutal, mystifying traps. These contraptions, at first the work of serial killer Jigsaw, aka John Kramer (Tobin Bell), changed hands as the franchise went on and Jigsaw’s apprentices took ov...

With “Saw X”—one the horror franchise’s best installments—now in theaters, we ranked the dozens and dozens of traumatizing “traps” from the films from from worst to best.