Every ‘Saw’ Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best Would you like to play a game? How about eight or nine games, most involving bodily dismemberment? Would that be something you’d be interested in? Okay wonderful, you’ve come to the right place. Good old, Jigsaw. You can’t keep the guy down. John Kramer (played by Tobin Bell) might have died in 2006, but 15 years later his spirit still lives on, inspiring new traps and games, along with new entries of the long-running horror saga, Saw. The franchise was created in 2004 by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, two young aspiring filmmakers looking to make the biggest splash with as little money as possible. That led them to conceive a film set almost entirely in one room, which soon evolved into the notion of two men chained to opposite sides of a bathroom with a dead body lying between them. After one particular conversation about the idea, the word “Saw” popped into Whannell’s head as the title. There was no turning back.