Saw X: The Brain Surgery Trap

Similar to those in Jigsaw, a lot of Saw X’s traps are a bit simple compared to the contraptions he usually puts together because here, he’s not on his home turf. He gets a group of scam artists who tricked him and others into fake experimental cancer treatments in a room and just fucks them up. The real stars of Saw X aren’t the traps, they’re Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith reprising their roles as Jigsaw and Amanda, and that’s why it’s one of the best movies in the series. But its traps are still pretty gruesome and memorable. I think I’m gonna give this one to the Brain Surgery Trap, which is so blatantly unfair that you can see through Jigsaw’s holier-than-thou facade. This guy just wants blood at this point, and will frame it as a game to get it. Mateo, one of the fake doctors who pretended to cure Jigsaw’s cancer, is forced to cut out a piece of his own brain before a burning contraption closes in on his face and scorches him alive. The motherfucker does it, but the device used to measure it is painfully slow in realizing it, so Mateo was never going to get out of this and it’s horrifying to watch him try.