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Saw Franchise
Greetings, fellow fanpeople, and welcome to From Worst to Best! I’m Jeremy Thomas, and I’m here to take a look at a franchise and place the entries from…well, worst to best. Yeah, the title basically gives the format away, doesn’t it? Anyway, keep in mind that
this list is meant to be my personal opinion and not a definitive list. You’re free to disagree; you can even say my rankings are wrong but stating that an opinion is “wrong” is just silly.
This weekend, the
Saw franchise makes its return with
Spiral. The Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson starring film hopes to kickstart a series that was a hallmark of horror the mid- to late-2000s.
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.