When Does ‘Saw X’ Take Place?

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Saw X.We think it’s safe to say that we would all lose if figuring out the twisty and turbulent timeline of the Saw series was one of Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) torture games.

This long-running and beloved horror franchise is notorious for its wacky, crazy, and convoluted timeline.

The franchise is almost like a jigsaw puzzle in itself, with the seemingly connected events in each film taking place at widely different points in time.

To put it into context just how crazy the timeline of the Saw movies is, this is a franchise where its main villain definitively dies of cancer in Saw III, yet there have been seven movies to come after it that still contain John Kramer as a central figure (with the only real exception being Spiral).

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