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
Long-running horror series need to freshen things up to keep going as they head towards double figures.
A Nightmare on Elm Street went meta and then crossed over with
Friday the 13th in its seventh and eighth movies, while the latter franchise headed to space in its tenth outing.
Halloween decided to ignore all other sequels and have a direct sequel to the first in the series in its ninth movie (ignoring the Rob Zombie efforts).
Having released its final chapter in the seventh movie,
Saw attempted a reinvention with 2017 s
Jigsaw to mixed results, and now it s gone the full soft-reboot route with
It’s
Spiral: From the Book of Saw week, gang, and if you’re not sold on the movie yet, maybe this very gruesome opening scene will do the trick. This is the first official clip that
really sells this as a bloody
Saw movie, complete with a cringe-inducing trap involving a tongue and a speeding train. In other words, it’s not for the squeamish. Watch the
Spiral: From the Book of Saw opening scene below.
Spiral From the Book of Saw Opening Scene
The opening scene of
Spiral: From the Book of Saw shows a corrupt cop in a sticky situation. After being captured by the film’s killer (remember: it can’t be the original Jigsaw because he’s dead…unless this movie is secretly a prequel), the cop finds himself hanging by his tongue above some railroad tracks. Ouch. The cop has a choice: he can escape and live by ripping out his own tongue (which, to be fair, could lead to death via blood loss), or he could just hang out there and get smashed by a train. Tough choi
The opening torture scene of
Spiral: From The Book of Saw has been revealed ahead of the horror relaunch’s arrival in theaters this Friday.
Lionsgate has really been trying to market this movie to a wider audience than previous sequels in the franchise. As the unusual title and the high profile leads – Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson – suggest,
Spiral is being pitched as a different kind of experience from its predecessors.
Hardcore fans don’t need to worry, however, as it’s still going to be recognizably a
Saw movie, as this new clip makes plain. In fact, the sneak peek is as classic