Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
Starring Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, Morgan David Jones, Frank Licari, John Tokatlidis, Zoie Palmer, Dan Petronijevic, Nazneen Contractor, Edie Inksetter, and K. C. Collins.
SYNOPSIS:
Spiral, the new chapter from the book of
Saw.
Spiral‘s concept is interesting and could have reinvigorated excitement for the long stale
Saw franchise now up to nine installments. Darren Lynn Bousman (who has actually directed a couple of the better entries in the series) has kept up the mechanical and gory traps of the twisted game while framing a story around a police force hunting down a copycat Jigsaw. Perhaps even more refreshing, Chris Rock is lead detective Zeke Banks, bringing both a comedic presence and sincere effort as the disliked honest cop (you can sense that he really does have a passion for the franchise and is doing all he can to make this work somehow). It also seems there is plenty of corruption inside this
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review
May 12, 2021 by:
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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
What do you get when you mix a satirist and a slaughter flick?
“Spiral: From the Book of Saw,
“ the ninth edition of the “Saw” horror series – and one of the highest-grossing film franchises to date. The
Lionsgate feature pairs
Chris Rock for the first time on the big screen.
EUR correspondent Fahnia Thomas joked with the comedian about Black comedy, Jules Winnfield and script rewrites.
Chris Rock in ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ (2021 | Brooke Palmer)
FT: Darren Lynn Bousman (“Spiral” director) said you riffed the Forrest Gump scene – what was that process like?
CR: When I saw the “Saw” movies I thought, these are really good but I could sprinkle some humor in it without disrupting the gore. It was an experiment…I would try to be a little funny and if it went too far, we would cut back because horror was king. They let me go and do my thing. I joked when it was time to joke and when it was serious I would blow your head off.