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Across more than two decades and 10 films, the Saw franchise has pulled in massive box office wins to become one of the few horror franchises to reach the $1 billion milestone and the fifth highest-grossing horror franchise of all time – but fans are running out of time to stream it on Peacock. After every film in the series joined NBCUniversal’s streamer in December, the first nine Saw movies are now sitting in the “leaving Peacock soon” section. The only film not tagged for an upcoming removal is the franchise’s most recent installment, Saw X. It’s unclear when exactly the movies will stop streaming on Peacock, but titles in the “leaving Peacock soon” section typically exit by the end of the month.
Saw Is a Horror Masterpiece That Redefined the Genre
Few horror movies from the 21st century have been as influential to the genre as the original Saw. Produced on a budget of just $1.2 million, the movie’s $103 million worldwide gross proved that low-budget films could be massive successes. The film maximized its small budget to create an immersive, gritty aesthetic that set it apart from more polished horror and defined the genre in the 2000s, and it effectively shifted focus from traditional slashers to psychological horror and popularized the torture porn subgenre. But the movie’s explicit, graphic depictions of physical suffering served a purpose beyond mere shock value, with Jigsaw’s traps a means to explore the human will to survive.
