***WARNING***THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN MILD SPOILERS!
The only thing that surprised me more than knowing there are apparently nine movies in the “Book of Saw” (rolls eyes) is where they took us by the end of the latest entry. Holy shit is Spiral good. I guess I’m so jaded by the torture porn of a franchise that injecting anything other than gore is a bonus.
Also, a big shout out to Midsummer Scream for putting on a warmer than blood welcome back to the movies. Even bigger shout out to Mandi for letting me be her +1!
If you’re the kind of person that doesn’t like politics in their horror, then you will Get Out of the theater. Cause the game board is flipped, and the movie puts us on the ACAB force with detective Chris Rock. Whoever said the phrase, “no one hates a bad cop more than a good cop,” has not met the latest of Jigsaw’s pig-faced fanboys. The person who ends up being the killer is kind of an easy guess, but his motive is cool.
“Join me, and together we can kill the bad cops.” I recently listened to Kill the Police by GG Allin, and apparently, the team at Twisted Pictures did too. By the way, seeing that logo on the screen again was definitely a horror fan’s version of seeing an old friend on the streets!
The way that crooked cops and comedy mix with the gorefest we’re all very familiar with was so refreshing I couldn’t handle it. To go from a very delicious oral death trap to Chris Rock, absolutely destroying Forest Gump lets you know precisely what a bloody good time you’re in for.
As a casual fan of this series (dabbing on every entry after 3), they didn’t ass blast it with fan service like other certain franchises like to do. I, however, didn’t appreciate Spiral treating us like a red swirl is the obvious signification of anything more than the Sega Dreamcast. “A red spiral. It’s obviously jigsaw”. No motherfucker. You see a pig head or a puppet (both of those things were present). THAT is obviously Jigsaw.
The one clear nod to the movies before it (other than Tobin Bell’s mugshots) is Chris Rock waking up cuffed to a pipe with a handsaw close by. I appreciate that the Jigsaw fanboy left a bobby pin within reach so we wouldn’t be subjected to a one-trick pony.
Samuel Jackson being Chris Rock’s dad and a retired cop, is exactly as perfect as you’d expect it to be. With that, my mouth hit the fucking floor when I started to realize the ending went where it went. The infamous theme song was bringing us in with an in-brand flashback. Setting up the final trap. A black man is pulling a gun on cops…
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Samuel Motherfucker Jackson nonetheless. It cuts to black after a death that threw me back so hard I thought, “there’s no way they’re going to end it here.” And they totally fucking did…
Again. I was expecting nothing more than a few sweet kills. I was fucking amazed. The Saw revamp song in the credits is based af so stick around (cause Chris Rock appears to be too).
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