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Personally, I don't see what the Saw-films are supposed to be. They're not horror, at least to me they're not (I'll explain later why). And they're not splatter movies either, they're just too un-gory for that.
Now to the part where they're not creepy or scary, but just downright ridiculous. I'm not saying horror-movies can't be scary anymore, but Saw just isn't. Michael Myers for example still gives me the creeps, for example. But Jigsaw's just too unrealistic to be credible. You have this guy who had a career once and he can do everything, he's like MacGyver. He buys a house, builds ten billion traps into it by himself (toymaker or not, there's no way he could have made all those things), kidnaps people and, without anyone looking for the people, he manages to get them safely to this traphouse. There, he somehow manages to do things like implanting a key in a guy's eye without him noticing. Then they victims wake up and just as they do, the puppet starts talking. What follows after that is not a story anymore but simple running around, trying to survive. Nothing against running around trying to survive, but after Billy has spoken, nothing really happens anymore. So they're not horrific to me. And since they're not splatter-movies either and fail at being funny, those movies are actually nothing really.
I prefer people like Myers who's just this guy in a mask with a friggin' big knife cutting stuff and people. Sure, his apparent immortality has been overdone in the later movies, but you get what I mean.
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