Spiral is the ninth film in its series, but as the subtitle
Spiral takes place long after Jigsaw’s death, in the same city where he did his killing, the connections to the throughline end there. It doesn’t share any of its characters, motives, or histories with the franchise, and that inconsistency leaves a gaping hole in
Spiral that isn’t filled in with anything proportionately interesting.
Spiral is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who also directed
Saw II through
Saw IV. In those chapters, he oversaw the death of Jigsaw, the rise of his co-conspirators, and the height of the torturous Rube Goldberg contraptions that made the