The Oscars best picture of the year, I can already predict it, is Saw X. I must admit that my interest in this franchise has waned, specially with that boring 9th installment Spiral: From The Book Of Saw, featuring a new voice for Jigsaw that sounds like a whiny alien. Prior to Spiral I was also just doing my obligation watching the rather pedestrian Saw 3D (the 7th movie), and Jigsaw (the 8th movie).

Saw VI I really remember having enjoyed a lot. Like after I finished I really felt like I had so much fun and that the script was excellent and the pacing was great. It was released in 2009 when I was in 2nd year residency training, and I watched it by myself in Robinson’s Manila. At that point the Saw fandom has significantly dwindled because of the lackluster Saw 4 and Saw 5, which was a shame because Saw VI was quite excellent.

We watched Saw X in SM City a few weeks ago and I’m still on a high. I’m still watching Saw-related You Tube videos, with the youtubers ranking everything from the movies themselves to all 78 traps in all ten movies.

I watched the first Saw movie in the cinema in December 2004, when I was a 4th year medical student doing monitoring duty in the pediatric rounds. My schedule had me monitoring Ward 9/11 at 10-2pm, and then again at 6-10 pm. I had a four hour break, and instead of sleeping I ran to Robinson’s and watched this movie without knowing anything about it, I was just intrigued by the movie posters: the one with the cadaver’s leg, and the one with a woman’s head trapped in a metallic contraption. And we now know what this metallic contraption is called: The Reverse Bear Trap!

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