Going into Spiral: From the Book of Saw, I was thinking about the kills. But leaving the theater (yes, an actual theater!), blood and guts were the least of my concerns. There was just too much else to be excited about — too much else to haunt my nightmares and post-screening conversations.
Based on a story by and starring Chris Rock, Spiral begins with classic Saw fodder: a man strung up by his tongue in a subway tunnel. That man, we learn, is a police detective with a lengthy record of perjury allegations. Will he cut out the tongue that wrongly put innocent people in prison, or is it now him “who will be railroaded?” Yeah, like I said, it’s traditional Saw shit, and this idiot is about to get mowed down by a train. Read more…
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