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Solving COVID newsletter Can a horror franchise kill off its main villain and still retain what made it so iconic in the first place? That s a question the Saw series has been grappling with ever since its antagonist, the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), died just three films into a now nine-film series. Subsequent sequels utilized increasingly convoluted means to keep Jigsaw around anyway via flashbacks and storylines he was somehow still involved in. But the latest entry, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, finally attempts a clean break. This chapter is the first with no appearance by Jigsaw, nor even a direct connection to him, and it makes an admirable attempt to forge its own path. The retooling, though, feels disappointingly like a generic serial killer film that just happens to have a coat of ....
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 ....