Tyler Blanchard brings Saw's reverse bear trap into the workshop
A custom-built prop and a hacksaw escape test anchor his fast-starting horror-movie experiment.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,015,729 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (97,865).
I Tested Deadly Traps From Horror Movies
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- 0:53Tyler introduces Kurt's custom-built reverse bear trap before testing it on stand-ins.
- 6:14The reverse bear trap reaches its ballistic gel mannequin test.
- 6:42Tyler and Tylor reenact Saw's bathroom predicament; the chain-cutting result comes at 11:27.
- 9:29A paid PixVerse segment interrupts the trap experiments.
- 12:35The crew sets up swinging ice blocks to test a scene from Saw IV.
- 17:03A pickup truck, chains and a ballistic dummy form the setup for the car-trap experiment.
Could the prisoners in Saw have cut through their chains instead? Tyler Blanchard and collaborator Tylor put that question to a practical test, shackling their ankles for a bathroom-scene reenactment and getting to work with hacksaws.
It's one of the less gruesome experiments in "I Tested Deadly Traps From Horror Movies," which reached roughly 700,000 views in its first 12 hours. Its opening pace is about ten times Tyler's usual start for videos of this length.
The centerpiece is a functioning reverse bear trap built by fabricator Kurt. Rather than putting a person inside, the crew works through tests involving a styrofoam head, a pumpkin and a ballistic gel mannequin. The video mixes staged horror scenes with physical prop tests, then moves on to swinging ice blocks and a pickup-truck-powered trap.
Tyler's enthusiasm for the engineering comes with an admission about his franchise homework: "I didn't get past the fifth Saw, I'm throwing it out there now." Viewers are supplying some of that homework in the comments, untangling the sequels' numbering. Others point to a slowing sound effect or suggest Halloween and Five Nights at Freddy's for future experiments.
The episode includes a paid segment for AI platform PixVerse. It follows "I Tested Brutal Horror Movie Deaths," the opening installment of Tyler's October horror series, which recreated scenes from Final Destination. That gives this run a specific shift: from that franchise's elaborate accidents to Saw's deliberately engineered traps.
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Some of these are GENUINELY horrifying 😭🙏
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- Channel
- Tyler Blanchard
- Subscribers
- 5,050,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 21,245,608
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,991,757 (on a normal day: 2,356,945)
- Video published
- October 17, 2026
- Video views so far
- 700,969 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,015,729
The numbers
The Saw episode is starting far faster than Tyler's usual regular upload. Separately, "Dangers Of Arm Wrestling" has passed ten million views.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which horror franchise supplied the scenes for Tyler's preceding October episode?
"I Tested Brutal Horror Movie Deaths" recreated Final Destination scenes involving glass, a tire and a chain-link fence.


