10. Jigsaw (2017)

Seven years after Saw: The Final Chapter, the series was resurrected by writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger and their Jigsaw copycat killer who wreaks havoc on ethically questionable citizens. Jigsaw immediately establishes itself as unique through its setting: no longer featuring dilapidated urban buildings like the other films, it’s set largely in a rustic barn on Tuck’s Pig Farm, owned by John Kramer’s ex-wife and her family.

Saw traps are always more interesting when there’s lots of people with different personalities stuck in a twisted maze, and in this case, a group of petty criminals trapped inside a farmhouse must work together or turn against one another to survive. The traps are very imaginative, if a bit hokey, like one involving a funnel with a spiral-shaped blade that turns someone into a human pencil shaving, and another with a laser that incinerates someone’s head open like an orchid flower. The film cleverly uses its pastoral setting, for one of the coolest—and even quaintest—traps in the series, as the characters are stuck in a silo that fills with grain. The revelations about Jigsaw’s past—including his obsession with pigs—add some unexpected emotional gravitas to his character.

But Jigsaw just can’t overcome the uncharismatic lead performance from Matt Passmore as Logan, a veteran and medical examiner at the Metropolitan Police Department, and his connections to Jigsaw are redundant and unbelievable. How many different apprentices can Jigsaw possibly have? Jigsaw commits the biggest sin for a horror movie—especially one in the Saw franchise: it’s boring.