Saw 3D (2010) aka Saw The Final Chapter.
When your film opens with a continuation of something that happened both six films and six years ago and continues that story strand as well as continuing the plot from the previous four films not to mention a whole new one with an alleged survivor of the Jigsaw killer you'll be as thankful as i was that i watched these films back to back.
However this also works as a stand alone film because Saw The Final Chapter excels with it's ingenious traps. The traps are tremendous and bone shatteringly gory at times. There's no way this film would have escaped censure in the early eighties. Most of the situations are highly effective utilizing tightly gripping set pieces, some of which had me on the edge of my seat with anguish and the beautiful thing about it all was the sheer amount of them. Just like infamous 80's slasher Don't Open Till Christmas had a murder every other scene, The Final Chapter has a trap every other scene.
Finally,as the series ends in the exact same place it began, in the last words of Jigsaw. GAME OVER!!
I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this series of films every Friday night for the last seven weeks and i've really looked forward to each bloody installment so it's quite sad that it's come to a satisfying close. However seven years later more was to come in 2017's Jigsaw.
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