Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Notable Cast: Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max
Minghella, Marisol Nichols
Every long-lasting franchise has to have its ups and downs.
It’s just like life. Always a bit of a roller coaster, ya know? For the Saw
franchise, diminishing returns for the sixth and seventh entries spelled a bit
of doom for the initial run, but you can’t keep a good horror series down.
While the eighth film, Jigsaw, did well box office wise relatively
negative feedback from critics and fans ended that attempted kickstarter quickly.
Enough that it sent the franchise into hibernation for a little while at least.
That is until Chris Rock.
Did anyone have Chris Rock on their Saw bingo card as
the man who would try to reboot the long-lasting and iconic franchise?
Nonetheless, this leads to the ninth film in the series, Spiral:
From the Book of Saw. The marketing featured strong vibing close to a Saw
meets Se7en tone, while fantastic trailers and posters made the hype for
this almost undeniable. Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, director Darren Lynn
Bousman, and other factors simply worked in building expectations up to a fever
pitch in horror circles. Yet, the strange thing about Spiral is that, for
better or worse, it’s simply another Saw film and not the new and
improved chapter that so much of its marketing leaned on.