i actually think the freezer trap was a good trap although it’s not complicated it’s a good concept considering she ran from the scene when jeff’s kid got ran over. now she’s stuck in place/frozen in place and takes her ability to be able to run from the situation once again

The lawnmower trap is like a gag cut away from Family Guy. Its the biggest WTF unserious thing.

Dumbest for me was the safe code thingy in Saw 1. There's a trillion numbers on the wall, he's covered in flammable liquid and needs to use a candle to see the numbers AND the floor is covered in broken glass. Ridiculous.

You know what, that first trap from Bobbie’s plot-line probably the only one that actually makes any sense. It’s like an “intro trap”, a way to say “this is for real not a joke” it meant to be beaten yet scare him enough for him to take it seriously.

The worst trap in the entire franchise is Amazon Prime trying to get you to watch the dumpster fire by making Spiral free.

Any else surprised that the flammable jelly trap wasn’t on the list

A person can withstand around 50-150 miliamps and it seems that the door in the clip opens at 80-100 miliamps. Definitely the shock wouldve been very possible for them to withstand together.

I always thought the lawnmower trap was meant to make no sense on purpose. Since the woman is telling the story and she's suffering PTSD, I thought the idea was that she was remembering it being more traumatic than it actually was.

i think the peephole that gus died in saw 2 was the most idiotic

I was expecting to see the mausoleum trap just because of how impossible it is, one guy can’t see and one guy can’t speak and they somehow have to work together. Not to mention that the guy who can’t speak can clearly rip off the stitches on his mouth since they let him break through them to give us a dramatic scream. That trap legit makes me so angry

In my opinion as a Canadian being naked freezing to death sounds pretty painful 😮😮😮

Gas house when she got her hands stuck in that blade box was so dumb

My opinion for the dumbest trap is the public trap in Saw 3D, the reasons behind the girl and the two guys even being there - stupid! How was the trap constructed and the victims put there without anyone noticing? Stupid! Im surprised this trap wasn't mentioned in the video or the comments.

I was pretty shocked to not see the antidote hanging trap from jigsaw, the whole thing looked terrible. Besides the fact that the idea isn’t particularly interesting, It makes no sense why the lady who dies doesn’t even point out the correct antidote when she knows the number. Plus Billy’s glowing eyes make no sense although that’s an issue w the whole movie. Great content as always guys you’re the best!

Love the videos guys!! Keep it up. The tounge trap from Spiral always bugged the hell out of me... Like how did he wake up standing on a stool 😂

For the lawnmower trap, I saw an idea that their legs were tied to platforms before the trap started, then when the woman won, a horizontal ladder was reached out for her to clamber to safety.

Flammable jelly has got to be up there as well😭 basically impossible

Also, the cage in 3d...you are right. He's the main character. Would have liked it if the wife was the main character, instead. The ending would have been much better. She could have failed. Then Bobby would have been killed.

Saw 1 Bath Trap....where you see the keys go down the drain in the title and Jigsaw acts like "Oh your key to freedom was in the bath" when he was expecting someone to wake up underwater to be not flailing around....dumb trap

I hate the brazen bull trap. Joyce was innocent, she didn’t deserve to die. And she got one of the most gruesome deaths in the whole Saw series.

the freeze room trap made me question how the woman would stay warm or even get back to normal body temp if she got out while still nude

I'm honestly surprised the knife chair wasn't on the list 😆 I mean, it's definitely gnarly and has some symbolism, but I feel like despite it being John's first prototype and was a little faulty, it might deserve at least 10th place. Although to be fair, it might be more suited for a list related to traps made by John specifically.

The tar trap in spiral

the electric bath wasnt it like all 5 needed to be punctured by one wire end and all take one fifth of the voltage to open the door? not defending it or the lack of logic but it's something like that?

10) The Drill Chair from Saw: I don't like putting something of the OG film on this list but with this one I just don't like it because we know nothing about it. What was the game, what was John planning to do with this guy and how would he survived? We don't even have an idea in the film itself why he is tested. Hopefully we get an answer yet in Saw XI or something and I also hope that the Disembowelment trap of Saw X's post credit scene gets some follow-up about how that guy is supposed survive those mechanical fingers. 9) The Mausoleum Trap from Saw IV: I put this one here because we know absolutely nothing about what the game plan here was AND it was played on purpose, like it should. Not even an tape was played and no hint was given to how they would be able to survive. I remember seeing the leaked footage of this trap months before the release of Saw IV and I thought it had to be fake, because of this reason (not helped by the fact that there was a lot of fake trailers for horror back than on KZfaq). 8) Ceilling Jars Trap from Saw V: while I did like Saw V rather well, this one indeed gives too much of the game away. They had to put this one, second last for it. That way it would have worked slightly better as it is the most obvious one that you have to work together and the next trap, the 10 Pints of Sacrifice would only confirm this. It would be a case of quick acting, only to follow it up with an oh shit, we actually fucked up moment seconds later... 7) Razor Box Trap from Saw II: this one I kinda hate for how simple the solution actually was. Look people, look before acting. 6) Hangman's Noose Trap from Saw 3D: At this point Bobby had already proven himself to be completely incompetent as a "survivor" and the only reason why this isn't worse the next, is because he couldn't work around the timer. But he could definitely have saved his friend a lot quicker than he did now. 5) Silence Circle Trap from Saw 3D: This was really the first real moment that I had something of: Bobby wouldn't be able to escape a carton box, let alone a Saw trap, though this might require a bit more explanation and some guess work on my part. By the way the trap is set up, it won't activate until he enacted by pulling the string to listen to the tape. He pulls the string and the timer starts and the machine goes life. Why do I think this? Of the timer we are definitely sure, the rest may or may not be the case but if she woke up and screamed for help, she would impale herself before Bobby could be tested so it seems likely that this too requires an extra trigger. But to come to my point. Was this really a trap that required instructions? He has a rontgen picture, all seems clear and there is no timer running yet. He would have all the time in the world (figuratively speaking) to get the key out, take his time to not hurt her too much, so even if her screams triggered the machine, it wouldn't have triggered the timer. He could go slow. No, he did need his instructions, limiting his time ridiculously. 4) The Motorcycle Trap from Jigsaw: The trap and its history is already pretty convulted but especially the way it is triggered bothers me so much. It literally has to be triggered by standing in exact the right place for it to work, for the noose to snatch the victim up and sorry, it makes John almost clairvoyant. It is a common issue in Jigsaw but this one pretty much took the cake on this. It is so ridiculous. 3) The Brazen Bull Trap from Saw 3D: The idea of this trap is fine enough but this is definitely one where they put the wrong victim in the trap. There is no justification of putting Joyce into in that trap. A completely innocent character that died a particularly gruesome death, because she married a charlatan. Never going to forgive this one. 2) The Lawnmower Trap from Saw 3D: It is clear I definitely do not like Saw 3D (though I hate Spiral even more, for other reasons) not to copy the video but indeed, this trap simply doesn't make any sense, nothing about this could work. 1) The Wax Trap from Spiral: so the idea of the Saw traps were always that you are tested because you don't appreciate your life enough. How would one appreciate life more, once they have paralyzed themselves from the neck down?! Having your spinal cord cut is literally an outcome from previous traps. And we aren't even talking about how William Schenk somehow managed to beuild this in the basement of the police station... Honourable mentions: the inescapable traps: I like most of their designs but I hate that they are inescapable. That flies in the face of the franchise for me.

Spiral's always gonna have a place in my heart because it was my first ever Saw film that I sat down and fully watched ^^

I don't know if i'm dumb or if i didn't understand how the movie was filmed but i've never understood how the motorcycle trap worked I mean, i understand how he died but i don't understand what was he supposed to do to win ? Everytime im watching the movie i try to pay attention at the instructions given but everytime i'm like "sorry, what was he supposed to do again ?"

The writing for ‘The Grain Silo trap’ was dumb. The whole movie is dumb. How on earth did none of those objects not land on their heads??? Coincidently they land on their arms instead to advance the plot. Yeah whatever writers! It was clear they had no idea on how to make a Saw film. Awful film and definately my worst too.

About the frozen lady trap, it’s curious because I remember watching extras and they told that they specifically decided to make her naked for it not to be sexual. The reasoning was woman in a wet cloths is more sexual than a naked woman. As a woman I can’t say if they were right or not I mean “wet shirt” contest or whatever they are called exist for a reason so perhaps by making it in “right in your face naked” and not the “suggestion of nakedness” quits all the sexual appeal from this scene (unless you are a sadist and are able to sexualize a woman being frozen to death).

I don't like the grain silo either, but to the point of how dropping the the tool not all at once, but one after another is really easy. The solution is a conveyor belt. Which isn't even unrealistic because that could be already installed to fill the silo. Just chuck some tool onto the conveyor belt at different points and start the belt. Conveyor belt are used a lot to transport loose materials.

Saw the title and I thought it was Saw 10’s dumbest traps and I was thinking that was a very specific video that probably wouldn’t have a lot to talk about….but now I understand.

15:58 I'm gonna be real I'd probably try swinging on this only to hit my head on the cage and die

As soon as I saw the title, I thought of the freezer room trap 😂

the puppet (or this movie’s billy) Schenk uses is a marionette pig dressed as a cop. It’s more of a motif then a metaphor; it’s honestly a great way to end the movie with a reacurring concept (a pig on strings being controlled) that strengthens what the movie is saying. and I gotta defend the marionette trap; the outcome was shocking when I watched it in theaters. Something about it gives body horror despite it being a pretty simple trap (compared to other movies). The movie also speeds up; everything happens so quick that you haven’t fully processed it then the screen goes black. It’s like going on a rollercoaster. It's a great way to end the movie. I would love to know what you guys would prefered as the ending trap, or do you think there should ve been one? ((:

Wouldn't John have built the MC trap on his own? Since it was part of the flashback story Logan would've just been saved from the buckethead trap just an hour before (at most). And thus there's simply no time for Logan to have been able to help even setting aside recovery time for when John patched him up.

I never realized until I saw the glass grinder trap of how incredibly closed Chris Rock's eyes were. It was like he was so embarrassed of how dumb the trap was, he squinted like that to make it seem like he really couldn't see too well to do any kind of obvious thing to move it along...😂😂😂

My theory on the lawnmower trap was maybe they woke up and were told by a tape they had to get on it and hang on and basically just see who can hang on the longest or they will both be killed, so they grabbed the bars at normal height and then the bars were lifted and moved over on top of those, and whoever wins just has to hold on long enough for the thing to then move back down toward the ground

thought on the lawnmower trap: maybe they wake up somewhere else and get hoisted up by an apprentice in the pig mask. Then, when she wins, the floor closes over the lawnmowers and she drops? *shrug*

my best guess for no 1 is the hot wax trap from spiral

Surprised the chain hangers wasn’t in this

I don’t hate the jigsaw traps. I loved the part about the girl who robbed a girl and “how much is a life really worth to you” just always felt like that was a powerful scene might be one of my favorite saw moments low key

When I watched Spiral, the villain reveal confused me. I genuinely thought 'Wait, who's that guy?' And I forgot his name was William Shank until you said it here 😂 Forgettable White Guy, one among many 😂

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I cannot stand the flammable jelly trap!! 😂

One other thing about the motorcycle trap that a lot of people seem to forget..... What if Insert-Name-Here pressed play on the tape recorder literally ANYWHERE else in the room? Seriously, he presses play and the snare instantly catches him around the ankles. What if he had walked over the Anna first, THEN pressed play? Boom! Trap over! Then again, this ties into a MASSIVE problem that I have with "Jigsaw" that you guys touched on earlier. The ONLY WAY that half of these traps would work is if someone was monitoring the game. How do the buckets know if they've made the blood sacrifice? How do the syringes cause the chains to release from the necks? What if Ryan HADN'T got his foot stuck before the grain silo trap began? I know John says a line back in "Saw V" when he and Hoffman are seen setting up the Nerve Gas House, about how nothing is left to chance if you're good at predicting human nature, but these traps are just WAY TOO PRECISE. Also, we know John COULDN'T have been monitoring the game because he was busy tending to Logan's wounds at the time.

Loved this rankin! Maybe you could pick out the top 10 most underrated traps from Saw yk like traps that had 10 seconds of screen time but they were so cool

So, not sure you care, but the electric test is absolutely possible to survive with 5 people. All 5 stand in a circle. They take the wires and put each one between two people so they can both hold it using the back of their hands. Ideally, they would be squatting close enough to stick the same elbow in the tub (shoes on and the only thing touching the ground. If that isn't possible, then they would want to stand instead. Everyone needs to have one shoe off and one shoe on. Let's go with left on, right off. Right foot goes in the tub. Right palm is touching right leg. Left foot is on the ground. So everyone is standing on their left leg with the right one in the tub and holding the wires between them and their partner using the back of their hands with them pressed against the right thigh. Given all types of metal have been removed (belts, jewelry, even jeans if they have those weird snap looking things, the electricity will pass from the r hand, into the r leg and into the tub bc that's the path of least resistance. Holding it between the backs of hands prevents the problem where you can't let go of it.

Here’s how to solve the bathtub trap: take off some clothes, soak them in the bath, attach the clamps to the wet clothes to close the circuit. Done.

TL;DR ("Too Long - Didn't Read"): I try promoting perspective. Perception of realism is one major way enthusiast fans like looking at fiction, myself included. But I feel where that falls through in SAW, I will want to do my best to value and appreciate some other aspects like social dynamics of characters in a scene, or like the visual and artistic qualities of a scene. I hope some may find inclination toward some of these things for reason other than relation by perception of realism. I feel, at the very least, some of these traps or their imagery on screen can appear artsy, and I can appreciate that. That spiraling motorcycle trap is computer-animated. That definitely breaks immersion. Yes, it's also the kind of machine that would need to be made by a big corporate effort... like finely machined with its perfectly smooth steel and whatnot. It's not in the taste of John Kramer's constructs, for sure. I did not enjoy this trap. The lawnmower trap feels like a fictional dream sequence - a lie created by that character. Thus, I can restore immersion. The grain silo deals with asphyxiation, which I enjoy, and I enjoy the closed, narrow confines of the space, and I enjoy the yellowy-orange color grading. Thus, I appreciate the artsy imagery of this trap. I don't feel the forklift box Jeff was housed in was meant to be a trap, exactly. I think it's more like a rude awakening. A means of stimulating the senses of Jeff to be anxious and panicked, and to stimulate Jeff's disconnect from their environment. The Fatal Five's traps in their trial sequence were not great overall. I feel what's enjoyable there is the setting and imagery of concrete, and the social dynamic of their particular group. I understand you two are not especially fond of this group, but I am one such fan more enjoying of this Fatal Five group. I did enjoy the freezer room sequence. Like some, I do not appreciate the nudity or any fringe sexual content in my SAW film. That said, I feel it does fit in as it promotes the perception of cold. When people think of warming themselves, they think of covering their flesh. This character is bound and nude, and so they are in a constantly losing situation in their ability to survive. My upset with the trap is that this is a dependent trap wehere one may not relieve their situation upon their own. SAW did not begin this way. Thus, I feel SAW 2004 is my favored film because, among other reasons, it had the greatest sense of relatability for me including in its morality/ethics - John Kramer created scenarios where one was doomed to decease often in isolation _unless_ they were able to overcome a will to survive and the scenario's punishing rules. I am going to blanket and say generally any traps that are exclusively computer-animated and not physical constructs are going to be lesser, at least with 1990-2020s cinema. Beyond that, like I said, I have my own personality distaste for things like the dependency traps. The freezer character's only tool was a limited ability to speak and play the part of diplomat with Jeff. I dislike those unfair situations. And we see them too much. I do not feel any SAW "victim" (one playing a trap/trial scenario) should ever have power over the life of another. I feel that violates what John Kramer was trying to do. And then I remind myself that there's more than one "Jigsaw," and we know they all consistently break greatly from John's idealism. So why not? Let's strap someone down and break their bones.

if they wanted to cheese the electric bathtub, they could've just dipped one of their jackets in the bathtub water and connected it to the wires. Electric current runs better through dirty water.

The barbed wire trap from the first movie would've made my list. It always rubbed me the wrong way. Great video!

I could put the brazen bull on number one it still hurts me that the most innocent personage from that movie had to die like this on top John knew it was unbeatable. It was completely John’s ideal it’s seems unreasonable from us to believe he planned it and yet he did. The number 7 on your list, I guess it can be excused by the lady being under influence of neurotrophic drug and suffering from the syndrome of abstinence not sure if I can jujube her there but it pained to know that the key was right behind. In saw 3D, Lawrence, just like Jill going for an execution instead of a test, taking away the saw when Hoffman was ready to do it didn’t sit well with me just like it didn’t sit well with me that his “test” by John vs Amanda’s had no key (and he still beat it). John set Jill to kill Hoffman and then asked Lawrence to kill Hoffman if he rightfully went for the person who put him in an execution trap. John seemed to love his wife yet instead of directly asking Dr.Gordon to kill Hoffman he puts his wife in danger and on top makes her what he claimed to despise a murderer. No way John could foresee that Hoffman would beat the trap like that so it was an execution so why make his wife do it? At least he foresaw that Mark will want revenge. I seriously need answers about this, did Jill choose not to hide the key somewhere and just play safe by making it an execution or John asked his wife (having another 2 apprentices) to commit murder? Perhaps it was just bad writing.

to me, it's acid trap in Jigsaw. And the trick for that trap is just drop some liquid on your hand then you would know which one is the acid

i have to assume the lawnmower trap started with them being on a floor that opened up under them when they woke up and that closed again when she won

The lawnmower trap will always be the dumbest one even when I saw it way back in 2010 lol.

I would have bet MONEY number 1 was going to be Flammable Jelly lol

The grain silo trap kinda feels like a final destination scene to me lol. Like if you really think about it

She’s naked because spraying cold water on clothes isn’t quite as chilly lol. It’s a dumb trap but it makes sense

The shotgun hallway trap the trick stairs, cyanide box. Those things that are definitely a Kevin McAllister could think of.

I'm not sure how true it is but on the 'Saw wiki' it said that for the naked woman in the freezer... the creators were going to have her in a T-shirt & knickers and it was somehow more sexualised than being naked?!?!

Did you call Jigsaw the worst movie of the whole series because Spiral should be erased from our memories? Also, I thought the holding your breath trap would be #1. Punishing the janitor for smoking is a little harsh.

When you put Zoe in the traps for the thumbnails, it Just ends up looking cute 😂

I knew that motorcycle trap would be on the first place, it just doesn't make any sense

HELP MY FAVORITE TRAP WHAT #1 😭😭

Awesome list guys. Just wanted to mention one thing about the motorcycle trap; the nephew is NOT John Kramer's, its Logan's - that's what throws alot of people off, its one of those "vengeful traps" like Hoffman's pendulum trap was for Seth

I didn't enjoy the marionette trap but DANG the foreshadowing with Mr Snuggles was awesome

the bath trap never made sense cos if they all put one leg in the bath to get shocked, its hard to let go when your being electrocuted but not only that once they do leave the tub the door would close my number 1 trap wouldve been the razor box from saw 2 because how was she even meant to get the antidote?

Finally one of the first comments, i love yall podcasts, keep doing the good work 🙌🏽🙌🏽

of course I hate Jeff, but the idea of the freezing woman was great could have been done better, but I like it

I thought the last trap in the new prequel was dumb where they just stick their head out the flap

I thought the brazin bull trap from 3D was going to be 1. Why put a lady that didn’t know what was going on into a trap and then kill her.

Not watched #1 yet, but my guess is the brazen bull from Saw 3D.

Less than 20 comments dang! Love these episodes

im just sitting back wondering when yall will get more popular 😢. great vid as always

How can you honestly say Jeff sitting in a box on a forklift is better than a cage & spikes? Don't get me wrong I don't like that but it's better than slow mo Jeff having a snooze in crate Just Imo

For the electric bathtub trap I never understood how that would work, like I understand them all sharing the shock, but I'm pretty sure if the volt was high enough it would at least cause serius damage to them, and most likely still kill them.

I think we missed two massive ones, spirals hot wax trap that eitherway she would of died, and saw 3ds terrible laser collar trap, geez i hated saw 3d

For me the dumbest trap or at least the one that made mad (from this list) was the “glass shooter”. Aside from the evident location of the key, he could have kept knocking the glass bottles till the supply of obviously not infinite bottles finished. Also as a second option instead of shielding the man just try to swing him aside and keep him there till the glass supply finishes, won’t get unharmed but perhaps not dead either, the shoot sims linear and very focused in the center it the best solution but still better than getting hurt and in the end still letting him to die because of his slow thinking. Jeff not using his clothes to protect his face while getting the key also frustrated me, but perhaps very in character he obviously was “act first think last” guy. But one of the dumbest moment was when John’s lawyer (Saw III) after killing the blinded guy (and not in any apparent danger anymore) decided to forcefully rip the stitches in his mouth. Like man, you could have done it all along, avoid being killed, avoid murder and yet decided to do it when you actually survived and can get professional help to take them off (I mean he didn’t know there was more for him after).

Surprised the opening trap from Saw 7 wasn't on the list! I know Jigsaw has always had qualms with some petty stuff, but to be bothered about a girl playing 2 guys off against each other? Always seems so out of place Also your comments on Spiral made me think... I really enjoyed that film but. it's just not a Saw film. I think it probably gets so much hate because it's a Saw film by label but not by content. If it was just a stand alone plot removed from the Saw universe, it would seem pretty decent imo

The Kale trap in saw 3D is dumb because why doesn’t the guy that can see not just make his way to him 😒

Is no one going to talk about Bobby Dagen's wife? I mean, she didn't even know Bobby lied about everything. She blindly supported him because she couldn't have even thought that he was lying or had a reason to make that whole story up. So up until the very end she has NO IDEA what's going on or why she's there, and just to punish HIM, she gets trapped in a pig-shaped Iron Maiden and burned alive. Not just unfair but completely idiotic to me. Why victimize someone who was only involved unknowingly?? I would have chosen that instead of the cycle trap.. I actually rather liked the cycle trap for whatever reason, maybe just visual effects, but Joyce definitely had no reason to die.

Number 1 trap has to be the Brazen Bullshit, I can somewhat defend the others on the list, but this no

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You know I always thought it would be worse for her (3:34 or so) with some clothes on. There'd be the option of the clothes tearing away, breaking and hurting her ect. I definitely agree this trap needed a lot of work

I think the number one dumbest trap is the pig vat

I LOVED spiral 😭😭😭

If y’all weren’t even gonna list the Public Execution Trap from “Saw 3D”, what was the point in even making this video?

I saw Spiral and Saw as a double feature and the juxtaposition was... Striking.

Why does lawnmower trap even Exsits??? Did bro forgot to mow the lawn??????????

my guess for #1 dumbest saw trap is mitch's trap from jigsaw. and I agree it looked too goofy for my liking

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The public love triangle trap is by far the worst.

The glass shooter....cant believe it...there's literally nothing there but a trash can...I think you would just look, without the tape.

I would have put the classroom trap on there. Ridiculous and not survivable even if the door wasn't welded shut 😒

26:35 😂😂

Id have guessed the pain train.

i'm 49 seconds late to the new upload :(

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I expexted brazen bull on this list

I, too, hate a boring climax.