Saw
“How much blood would you shed to stay alive?”
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.
How Saw compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Saw, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 10
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 23%
- Share of the series audience
Saw (2004) is the highest-rated of the 10 rated films in the Saw series, at 7.4/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.4/10.
It is the film that started the series, 19 years before the most recent entry, Saw X (2023).
Its 10,491 TMDB ratings are 23% of the 46,246 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Saw, comparing all 10 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
Saw
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