Saw Movies: Every Film in the Saw Franchise

The Saw movies are a horror series about John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer, a man who tests people's will to live through deadly games and offers each victim a way out if they are willing to pay for it. Ten films carry the story, and the full count sits on the how many saw movies page. The pull of the saga is its rules: every trap is a puzzle with a price, and the camera tends to wait while the victim does the arithmetic.

Saw (2004), directed by James Wan, is where it began. Photographer Adam and oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon wake in a filthy bathroom, each chained by the ankle to a pipe, with a dead man and a microcassette recorder on the floor between them. Leigh Whannell plays Adam, Cary Elwes plays Dr. Gordon and Tobin Bell plays Jigsaw. The film grew out of a short film and was shot over 18 days, and it cost $1.2 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Lions Gate bought worldwide rights before the Sundance midnight screening, and the finished film took $104 million worldwide, roughly 87 times its budget. Saw 2004 keeps to one room, two chains and a ticking clock, which is why the scale feels so small and so tense.

The sequels settled into an October habit. Saw II (2005), directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, opened the run, and every film from saw 2 to saw 3d arrived in late October between 2005 and 2010. Bousman also directed saw 3 and saw 4, David Hackl directed saw 5, and Kevin Greutert directed saw 6 and Saw 3D. Saw III is the biggest earner of the saga at $165 million worldwide, while Saw VI is the smallest of the main run at $68 million. Saw IV was the first Saw film not written by Whannell or Wan, who are credited as executive producers on it, and it opened to an estimated $32.1 million, just under the $33.6 million debut of Saw III.

After seven years away, the series returned with Jigsaw (2017), directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig. Five strangers wake in a barn with buckets on their heads while a recording in the voice of John Kramer, who died ten years earlier, explains the rules, and police find bodies killed in ways that match his methods. The film cost $10 million and earned $103 million worldwide, and the film page for jigsaw 2017 has the full cast.

Spiral saw, formally Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021), is the franchise's one spin-off. Directed by Bousman and built around Chris Rock as Detective Zeke Banks, with Samuel L. Jackson as Marcus Banks, it opens with a detective attacked by a figure in a pig mask during a Fourth of July parade, and Zeke soon sees a trap in the style of the dead Jigsaw. It cost $20 million and took $41 million worldwide, the lowest total of the ten.

Saw X (2023), directed by Kevin Greutert, brought back Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith and is set between Saw and Saw II, so the filmmakers decided not to de-age either actor. John Kramer has terminal brain cancer and travels to a clinic outside Mexico City, and the traps were built with practical effects and prosthetics from Fractured FX. Saw X made $125 million worldwide on a $13 million budget, according to The Numbers.

Charlie Clouser composed the score for all ten films, and the saw soundtrack page covers the notable songs. Adding the per-film worldwide figures from Box Office Mojo and The Numbers gives about $1.14 billion for the whole series, and the saw box office page breaks that down film by film. For the people behind the camera and in front of it, see the saw cast page, and for opinion on each entry see saw reviews.

Saw X streams on Netflix in the US and Australia as of November 3, 2026, while the earlier films are spread across other services depending on the country. These listings come from JustWatch data on TMDB, checked on that date, and streaming catalogs change often. The full table is on where to watch saw.

United States: Saw X is on Netflix. Spiral: From the Book of Saw streams on Hulu, fuboTV and YouTube TV. Saw (2004) and Saw II are free on Fawesome. Saw through Jigsaw are on Amazon channel add ons such as MovieSphere+, and every film can be rented or bought from services including Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and YouTube.

United Kingdom: HBO Max carries seven films, Saw (2004) through Saw 3D. Spiral is on the Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel. Jigsaw and Saw X are rent or buy only, through services such as Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and Sky Store.

Australia: Stan carries eight films, Saw (2004) through Jigsaw. Saw X is on Netflix, and Spiral is rent or buy only, through services such as Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and YouTube.