'Saw X': The Very Queer History of the Very Gory Horror Franchise
Jigsaw’s gruesome antics may be the star of the show, but to a huge part of the fanbase, the romantic subtext is the real draw of “Saw.”
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Jigsaw’s gruesome antics may be the star of the show, but to a huge part of the fanbase, the romantic subtext is the real draw of “Saw.”
Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily BeastSince the first film debuted in 2004, the Saw franchise has become infamous for its brutality. To many of the franchise’s fans though, the precarity of life is what allows the story to give way to a franchise about found family and queerness. And despite the story of Saw originally coming to a close in 2010—despite two recent “sequels,” the newly released Saw X is the first canonical entry since then—a younger, queer, and very online audience is refr
The view of the Saw films as mindless indulgences in images of torture is outdated. The Saw films are wise, honest, intriguing, and far more complex.
With ‘Saw X,’ the tenth ‘Saw’ movie, now playing in theaters, we’re ranking every twist ending in the long-running horror franchise’s history.
Here is the need-to-know information about what happened to Dr. Cecilia Pederson in Saw X. Did she survive and is still alive, or did she die?