If there ’s any reason flashbacks have become faux pas in modern writing it ’s because of theSawseries . Untangling the vane of twist confederate is the key to unlock the chronological order of theSawmovie franchise . The only problem is the origin story is carve up across various movies .

The only proper style for it to all make sensation is to order the entries by the flashbacks first , with the list of motion picture they come about in , then in reality list out the rest of the movies in order . The flick are always undecomposed blood - hit it up fun , but there is so much history behind the gory surface of the series . Dissecting the chronological ordering of theSawtimeline is for certain unmanageable , but not unimaginable .

Backstory 1 (Saw IV & Saw VI)

It all start withSaw IVwhere the interview meets John Kramer , an engineer , and his married woman Jill . Jill was fraught and opened up a drug clinic which a adult male constitute Cecil Adams tried to rob for another presently - to - be important fictitious character , Amanda , as revealed inSaw VI .

Cecil slams the room access against Jill ’s stomach , causing a miscarriage . John drift off completely traumatize from the event and finally broke up with Jill . He isolate himself with his intellection until he was name with cancer .

Backstory 2 (Jigsaw & Saw IV)

Being embittered by his wasted life , the succeeding killer observe others closely and observed how they hold up their lives . ascertain others waste their life sentence while his aliveness was coming to an remnant depressed John . After being denied money for his cancer intervention by William Easton , inSaw II , John comes to an Three Kings' Day that spawns the growth of his ideals .

In theSaw IVflashbacks , John designs his first traps for Cecil and inJigsaw , Logan implies that he live one of the early test and became John ’s first apprentice , thus confusing the timeline even further at a former level in the dealership .

Backstory 3 (Saw IV, Saw V, Saw II, & Saw VI)

InSaw IV ’s flashbacks , John adopts the idea of " Instant Rehabilitation one person at a time " and continues on his killing ways , using traps bring out inJigsawto be designed by Logan . John ’s finally mark the Jigsaw Killer by the metier when his key signature of jigsaw puzzle - corresponding pieces of flesh being dispatch from the victims is pick up .

Jigsaw ’s disputation finally take – as let out inSaw V – to a copycat killer in the class of a pig constitute Mark Hoffman who would become a very significant character . Having kidnapped and blackmailed Mark , Jigsaw annexes him to his cause . Mark eventually design traps to be used in the first movie , where the timeline does not get mere . Prior to the firstSawmovie , Amanda Young becomes the first known survivor of Jigsaw ’s games . As expose inSaw II , she takes to him like a father figure and says his games benefit her life , becoming another apprentice before the first movie even bulge . As shown inSaw VI , Jigsaw then demonstrate the " rehabilitated " Amanda to Jill , who essentially work on to become another confederate / apprentice .

Saw (2004)

● Available on HBO Max

Sawtechnically starts with Amanda kidnapping Adam Stanheight for the game . Jigsaw , however , also goes for snatch his doctor who diagnosed him with cancer , Lawrence Gordon . This movie insert Jigsaw ’s ideas and blood - soak game .

An important mo that leave a lasting impact on next entry is Jigsaw helping the doc and hold him another accomplice , total tothe list of thing that do n’t really make sense about the learner . This intend that technically within the timeline , by the time that the events of the first movie take position , there are already 6 different Jigsaws .

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Saw II (2005)

Another plot is afoot , with Amanda serving as a red Clupea harangus . Eric Matthews is bring in as another dupe who in the remnant gets kidnapped by Hoffman for a succeeding biz , as bring out in a flashback fromSaw IV . Besides that , there is n’t much that happens that is relevant to the overarching game of the serial .

The movie ’s point seemed to be about establishing that Amanda was in reality evil , even if the story revolved around her get a reckoning against Eric Mathews for wrongly accusing and jailing her for a offense .

Saw III (2006)/Saw IV (2007)

● Both movies are available on HBO Max

Saw IIIandSaw IVhappen at the exact same time and watch over two of John ’s protegees : Amanda ’s traps forSaw IIIand Mark Hoffman ’s yap forSaw IV . Amanda ’s plot start off as a catastrophe because she no longer believe Jigsaw ’s maw actually change people , even though she was one of them , and starts makingtraps that are impossible to beat . Jigsaw eventually has to put her through a psychometric test so that a straightforward - up base manslayer is n’t in charge of his legacy , which she fails , getting them both killed .

Saw IVfollows Mark Hoffman as he brings Eric back in for a test with David Riggs , a reoccurring SWAT fellow member investigating Jigsaw . Mark eventually finds the trunk of Amanda and the original Jigsaw . The autopsy view is really the last picture in the canonical timeline for this moving-picture show , culminating with Hoffman finding a tape measure inside Jigsaw ’s soundbox distinguish him that he will be tested still .

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Saw V (2008)

InSaw V , Jill is given a tape by the police from her dead serial grampus husband with a list of instructions for her to follow , which come into child’s play in the series again later .

The main plot of the movie surveil the young Jigsaw following John Kramer ’s death in the coinciding timelines ofSaw IIIandSaw IV , Mark Hoffman , in another biz much like a small fry ’s first drive onBilly the puppet ’s creepy-crawly trike . The traditional jolt spin termination sees Hoffman escaping police pursuit to set up the conflict in the next movie .

Saw VI (2009)

Fittingly this was plausibly the test John forwarned Hoffman about . William match a horrifying end and Mark go back to the scenery only to get jumped by Jill who puts him in a inverse bear ambuscade , much like the one he designed for Amanda in the firstSaw . However , Hoffman manages to escape it .

Saw 3D (2010)

Mark Hoffman and Jill Tuck are battling for the title of Jigsaw . The storyline in theSawmovies is finally pop out to simple out . The game of the movie follows another soul who is snatch for fake his survival of a Jigsaw secret plan for celebrity and money , while Hoffman goes on the attack to discover Jill , who is in police custody .

Jill come out of the closet Mark as Jigsaw which he counters by mow through a police station to get to her and end her life in a Reverse Beartrap like she had tried to use on him . As it wait like Hoffman is about to get away with it all , Dr. Lawrence Gordon , from all the way back from the originalSaw , reveals himself as a new apprentice and regain Hoffman , in the end putting an ending to him .

Jigsaw (2017)

● Available on Peacock

Jigsawcan be watch without anterior noesis of all the other motion-picture show , but still adds to the story more or less . It lead place 10 yr after the events ofSaw IIIandSaw IV , with another apprentice rising after Jigsaw ’s death .

Much like how the tale went with Hoffman , the ending allows the killer to get away with the hope of more game to come . However , with no explanation regarding the surprise return of Dr. Gordon inSaw 3Dand all of the acolytes that he seems to be working with , fans were not sufficiently impressed and the dealership would finally decide to move even further into reboot territory for its next installing .

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