The plot of the film "Saw" - brutal survival games. Two men wake up in the basement and see that they are chained. In the center of the room lies a corpse with a gun in his hand and a shot through his head.
The prisoners are trying to understand why they were caught and chained. They find and listen to the film: a voice from it explains the rules of the game, which make men come to real horror.
These tests were arranged by John Kramer: a man dying of cancer and encouraging others to value their lives.
Consider a list of films about traps similar to “Saw” - a horror movie that came out in 2004 and quickly became a cult.
10. Trap Farm | 2007
The mysterious stranger decided to bring together several mathematicians to figure out one very difficult puzzle. The name of the owner of the abandoned building is Farm. He names the people in his house as well as the mathematicians recognized as the most famous in history.
Farm guests must spend two days in four walls. Suddenly these same walls begin to move. To avoid a terrible death, mathematicians must solve the mystery as quickly as possible. Puzzle movie Trap Farm people who like math and thrillers will surely like it.
9. 5 unknown | 2005
Several men woke up in a warehouse. It is abandoned and tightly closed. Two captives in abrasions and bruises, one more connected, the other broken nose. One of the men is chained to a pipe and mortally wounded. All prisoners have amnesia.
There is a newspaper in the room that came out the day before yesterday. On its front page is a note stating that two wealthy businessmen were abducted. The wife of one of the businessmen and the police are preparing a ransom in order to lure the kidnappers into a trap.
It is very likely that both the victims and the criminals are in the warehouse. Understanding who is who is completely impossible. It may turn out that the victims suffered the least, and the villains are chained and connected. Perhaps someone else is involved.
Clue “5 unknowns” unknown until the very end, so the viewer is always in tension and does not lose interest.
8. The pit | 2001
British students decided to have fun and chose a very unusual way for this. Four young people go to an abandoned military bunker. After a while, only one girl leaves from there, other students die. Dr. Horwood, a police psychologist, is trying to find out what has happened in the bunker all these days.
Love is a feeling familiar to many. It is sung by poets, writers, artists, it is the most beautiful, bright and discussed. However, sometimes love takes forms that are not quite familiar to most people, it can turn into a real madness.
Film "Pit" will please those who are tired of the "vanilla" romance, sung in numerous films.
7. Nine on the list of the dead | 2010
In the center of the plot "Nine on the list of the dead" - the survival of nine people who at first glance seem completely unrelated to each other. They were kidnapped by a masked armed man.
Each of the victims does not tell about his secret and really does not want others to know about him. However, the kidnapper said that he would kill a person every ten minutes, and this would continue until it was clear how all the people present were connected to each other.
The victims are completely different: mafiosi, laughing in the face of death, a policeman, a priest, and so on. The characters are not revealed immediately, but gradually, so it’s impossible to understand what the matter is all the same to the very end.
6. Mind Hunters | 2004
In film Mind Hunters future FBI agents find themselves on a remote island. To get into the elite department, they need to pass the decisive test. The goal of these people is to become "mind hunters" who are involved in the compilation of psychological portraits of dangerous criminals.
In their work, "hunters" use a variety of information and even those evidence that at first glance may seem insignificant.
However, checking future agents is becoming too brutal: among them is a serial killer. He is simply remarkably versed in human weaknesses, complexes, and therefore is very dangerous.
5. The Deadly Maze | 2004
A mysterious sadist abducted nine people in broad daylight. They came to their senses in a locked house. Victims of a criminal must take part in a deadly game, the main prize of which is life. The winner will also receive a very significant amount of money.
Fear and despair are quickly replaced by hatred and greed. Who owns the house? Who will be the last to release his bestial nature? Who will commit the first kill?
Does the bloody winner know the answers to all these questions? Horror ending The Deadly Maze is quite unexpected, even shocking.
4. Seven | 1995
William Somerset is an experienced detective who wants to become a pensioner as soon as possible and get away from people and from city life.
A week before retirement, two problems fell into the veteran of the criminal investigation department: a murder committed with particular cruelty, and a young partner. The detective quickly realizes that this crime is unlikely to be the only one. Soon his guess is confirmed by the news.
Somerset realized that a maniac was punishing people for the mortal sins they committed. He has to choose: entrust the work to the beginning detective or immerse himself in it.
Film "Seven" It has a philosophical connotation, it is very exciting, smart and stylish.
3. Not leaving a trace | 2008
Jennifer Marsh is a special agent fighting crime on the Internet. It seemed that nothing could surprise her, but still she had to face a very strange thing.
On the website Ubeisomnaya.com there are online videos with brutal murders. The death of victims is faster, the more visitors to the site. It becomes clear that the killer maniac declared war on the cybercrime department.
At first it seems that the criminal selects his victims at random, but then it turns out that everything is much more complicated. Detective thriller “Leaving no trace” It turned out very tense and gloomy.
2. Cube 2: Hypercube | 2002
The mysterious cube was again filled with unhappy victims. They came to their senses in terrible rooms, where all sorts of strange things happen over time and space. In this labyrinth stained with blood, one should not take ill-considered actions, otherwise death will overtake very quickly.
If the first film was built on science, mathematical laws, then the second "Cube 2: Hypercube" can already be attributed to science fiction. In the hypercube are not only the victims, but also their copies, which are independent of each other. However, parallel realities may intersect.
1. Cube | 1997
For some reason, people unrelated to each other ended up in a strange cubic room. On all faces there are hatches that lead to other similar rooms. The rooms are distinguished only by numerous deadly traps and flowers.
To find a way out of this huge cube, the victims have to unite. They must solve a mathematical puzzle, but the closer to salvation, the more deaths.
This thriller can be called one of the most original. Many other directors took the idea of this film as a basis, but to create something better "Cuba" no one succeeded.