Spiral, the ninth entry in the
Saw franchise (Image Courtesy of Lionsgate)
Darren Lynn Bousman, director of
Spiral, has one promise about the the infamous body-mangling, limb-wrecking, jaw-splitting traps of the
Saw movies. They work the way we say they work.
He s not kidding. Case in point: The Rack from
Saw III. That s the one where the man is in there, and his arms are outstretched, and it begins to twist, said Bousman. As is the way of
Saw and its very practical effects, the mechanism really worked. It s hooked to gears and a motor, and it turns one degree a second until it would completely snap your limbs. So we always have to go through a safety protocol. The stunt guy gets in the trap, and immediately he s going Safety! Safety! and we had to stop it, because it was turning his arms and his neck the same way we say it turns.
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Saw movie, he had the same reaction many of us. “I paused and I was just like ‘Chris who?’
Because, of course, in my mind, never in a million years would
that Chris Rock want to meet with me,” the director of
Spiral: From the Book of Saw told Gizmodo over the phone this week. But it was
that Chris Rock.
Repo! The Genetic Opera was in New York to direct a Broadway show when he got a call from a producer who said he was needed back in Los Angeles. Apparently, a certain person who definitely couldn’t be the former
The Saw movies are the Fast & Furious of torture-porn franchises, as dedicated to doubling down on their original conceit as they are to their sincerely applied, ever-expanding lore. In the series’ ninth outing,
Spiral: From the Book of Saw, someone appears to be following in the footsteps of The Jigsaw Killer, everyone’s favorite murderous philosophy major. Jigsaw has actually been dead since
Saw III in 2006, but
Spiral raises doubts about that statement: It’s the series’ second soft reboot in recent years, and a key question teased in its trailers is whether its grisly puzzle-murders are the work of a copycat, or someone connected to the original killer, John Kramer (Tobin Bell). It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume the latter, given how much the people behind the Saw series care about its sprawling continuity.
The culmination of our two-part interview with the composer.
By Scott Wampler · @ScottWamplerBMD · May 13, 2021, 5:12 PM EDT Charlie Clouser, photo credit Zoe Wiseman.
Chances are, if you’re immediately familiar with the name Charlie Clouser, it’s for one of two reasons: his incredible contributions on a series of classic Nine Inch Nails records (including 1994’s Grammy-nominated
The Downward Spiral and its follow-up, 1999’s
The Fragile), or his work as the composer behind Lionsgate’s mega-successful
Saw franchise. Over the course of nine grisly films, Clouser crafted a series of vital audio landscapes that not only captured the grotesquely violent tone of the
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review
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PLOT: A detective (Chris Rock) investigates the brutal Jigsaw-style slaying of his best friend, only to discover there’s a new killer out there targeting dirty cops.
REVIEW: First - I should get this out there: I’m not a
Saw expert. Like everyone, I saw (SAW!) the first couple of movies, but I tapped out somewhere around the fourth installment. I never actually disliked any of the movies (that I “saw”) but what probably happened was that I missed one of the many sequels, ended up falling out of the rhythm of the ultra-prolific franchise, and just started skipping them. However, I was intrigued when