All three of the Saw movies should be placed in the psychological horror. A "psychological horror" is a subgenre of horror fiction that basically gets into the movie goers minds. Wikepedia says, "Psychological horror relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot." This subgenre use gore, and a normal human being rather an ugly monster to do the horrifying.
In the Saw movies we see an older man who gets into the minds of various people, making them in the end kill themselves. These people don't know until they are in a specific predicament that they are playing a game within a game, in which will determine their destiny.
In the third Saw, "Dr. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them.
Saw is brilliant and I can concur that this fits well into the horror, subgenre, as a psychological horror.
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