This article contains spoilers for Spiral: From the Book of Saw. Read the spoiler-free review here.
It was a year and lifetime ago when the Spiral: From the Book of Saw trailer caught everyone off guard. What is this police procedural thriller starring Chris Rock and… wait a second, is that the Saw music? Yes, it was! Rock, plus Samuel L. Jackson, is starring in a reboot/spinoff of the 2000s’ most popular horror franchise: Saw.
How it would connect to those gruesome bloodbaths which helped pioneer the “torture porn” subgenre of horror, was not immediately clear. But with Spiral now in theaters, it seems like the perfect time to connect the dots on how Spiral follows in Jigsaw’s footsteps.
First of all, Spiral is not a reboot of Saw. The events of the original seven films remain in canon (2017’s Jigsaw seems a little iffier since it’s...
It was a year and lifetime ago when the Spiral: From the Book of Saw trailer caught everyone off guard. What is this police procedural thriller starring Chris Rock and… wait a second, is that the Saw music? Yes, it was! Rock, plus Samuel L. Jackson, is starring in a reboot/spinoff of the 2000s’ most popular horror franchise: Saw.
How it would connect to those gruesome bloodbaths which helped pioneer the “torture porn” subgenre of horror, was not immediately clear. But with Spiral now in theaters, it seems like the perfect time to connect the dots on how Spiral follows in Jigsaw’s footsteps.
First of all, Spiral is not a reboot of Saw. The events of the original seven films remain in canon (2017’s Jigsaw seems a little iffier since it’s...
- 5/15/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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