Like many people, I binge-watch horror films or movie franchises in the run-up to Halloween. With the release of Saw X this October , I decided to revisit the series’ nine predecessors that belong to the wave of ‘torture porn’ films popularised in the 2000s. While many franchises employ serial storytelling, I was struck by how Saw felt more like ‘TV’ than other horror series I’ve watched over the years. Fig.