


Saw 3D takes place just a few weeks after the events of Saw VI. Saw 3D (Also known as Saw: The Final Chapter) We also learn Amanda Young was partially responsible for Jill's miscarriage, information that Hoffman used to blackmail Amanda into murderingDr. PRE- SAW FLASHBACK: We learn thathealth insurance executive William Easton(Peter Outerbridge), the subject of the film's game, denied John Kramer coverage that may have saved his life. Saw VIstarts just a few days after the events of Saw V. John Kramer finds out and recruits Hoffman to his cause. PRE- SAW FLASHBACK: We learn the trap that opens this film, a gigantic pendulum that cuts convicted murderer Seth Baxter ( Joris Karsky) in half, was actually created solely by Hoffman and made to look like a Jigsaw killing. Saw V picks up very shortly after the events of Saw IV and the death of John Kramer. Soon after, Cecil became Jigsaw's very first victim. PRE- SAW FLASHBACKS: In Saw IV, we learn that an accident at a rehab clinic caused by an addict named Cecil Adams ( Billy Otis) caused John Kramer's wife, Jill Tuck ( Betsy Russell), to miscarriage. In arguably the franchise's wildest switcheroo, Saw III and Saw IV happen at the same time, six months after Saw II.
PRE- SAW FLASHBACK: We see John Kramer survive a suicide attempt, inspiring him to become Jigsaw and give others the second chance he felt he was given. The Saw II plotline that sees Detective Eric Matthews ( Donnie Wahlberg) apprehending the Jigsaw Killer and trying to find the whereabouts of his son, Daniel ( Eric Knudsen), takes place about a year after Saw.The film's actual Jigsaw test, eight people trapped in a house of horrors slowly filling with poisonous gas-Daniel and Amanda Young among them-is presented as happening concurrently, but actually took place a few days prior to John being arrested. However, as revealed through many, many subsequent flashbacks, this isn't even close to Kramer's first trap, and by this point, he had already recruited two conspirators: Amanda Young ( Shawnee Smith) and Mark Hoffman ( Costas Mandylor). In terms of the main, current-day storyline being told by the Saw franchise, James Wan's original film is the starting block. The actual test taking place in 2017's Jigsaw, which sees five people-each with a horrible secret-wake up in a deathtrap-filled barn, is actually one of the very first games orchestrated by John Kramer, taking place well before the events of Saw. Here are the Saw movies in (relatively!) chronological order: This section is for anyone making their way through the Saw franchise who wants to check in and understand what the hell just happened/was retconned with a last-minute flashback.
