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Despite a fresh coat of paint, this is very much another 'Saw' movie
Brad Keefe
It’s been 17 years since “Saw” turned making audiences squirm into box-office gold.
The first movie was, well, not very good. But its single-location shoot and over-the-top gore hit before the boom of “escape rooms” and a flood of horror torture porn, uncovering a formula that worked with moviegoers.
Then it became a franchise, a nearly annual rite of Halloween passage that resulted in five sequels and, most recently, the prequel origin story “Jigsaw," from 2017.
So we’re done here, right? Of course not. There’s always money to be made.