Due to the whole COVID situation, the film was delayed a year, thus building suspense for the introduction of Rock and Samuel L. The film follows Detective Zeke Banks (Rock who also serves as an executive producer) as he becomes increasingly entrenched in bringing down a Jigsaw copycat that’s begun terrorizing his precinct. It also serves as Chris Rock’s first venture into the horror genre, a major point of intrigue for franchise fans. Spiral: From the Book of Saw is the latest entry to the franchise in contrast to Jigsaw, director Darren Lynn Bousman’s return to the franchise is completely ancillary to the larger story of the Saw universe. Even the soft reboot Jigsaw couldn’t clarify the bonkers timeline nor inject life back into the series, so where was the franchise to go from there?
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As Saw grew the focus of the series began to drift with the sequels: the plot was sidelined to allow for steadily more intense traps and increasing amounts of flashback sequences. But with such a long-standing franchise comes the curse of declining return. Billy the Puppet, Jigsaw, and the reverse bear trap have become horror icons. The film arguably ended the run of more teen-centered, Scream-inspired horror movies with the opening shot of a nasty bathroom and the utterance of “I want to play a game.” The success of the film led to the spawning of six sequels during the rest of the decade, a seventh film in 2017, and a laundry list of copycats.
In 2004 the trajectory of horror changed forever with the release of Saw directed by James Wan and written by Wan and Leigh Whannell.