Last year we learned that beloved comedian Chris Rock was rebooting beloved torture porn horror movie series Saw. And now we’ve got the first trailer for Spiral: From The Book of Saw, from veteran Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman. The movie promises the same sadistic games we all know and love. But now with Chris Rock! And Sam Jackson! Sure!
A new game begins. Introducing #Spiral: From The Book Of Saw – In theaters May 15. pic.twitter.com/GpotY31A4h
— Spiral (@Saw) February 5, 2020
Not only was Jordan Peele’s Get Out a great movie but it was a great movie with messages that are actually being understood and absorbed by most viewers. Concepts like “The Sunken Place” and the creepy racism of rich white liberals are vital for our current political moment. And another message Hollywood has taken from Get Out? There’s money to be made by allowing a famous Black comedian to try his hand at the horror genre.
At least, that’s the only way to explain this news story. The Saw franchise is being rebooted, courtesy of Chris Rock.
The first Saw is an important little horror movie. It helped cement gritty and raw torture porn as the genre’s preferred style for the mid-2000s, and that creepy puppet is totally a new slasher movie icon. It was directed by James Wan, who just turned Aquaman into a movie worth a billion dollars, so it was made with craft. And personally I loved how crazy and elaborate its lore eventually got with so many characters and their soap opera drama relationships to each other. How many secret evil apprentices did the dude have after he died?
However, like many cheap horror franchises, Saw bled out because of too much repetition. The original series ended with Saw 3D in 2010. The 2017 reboot Jigsaw was okay but no one seemed to care. So now it’s time to apparently let Chris Rock take a crack at it. Rock will executive produce the film and helped come up with the (hopefully more political) story. Lionsgate is comparing this to how Eddie Murphy reinvented the buddy cop genre. Sure! It worked for The First Purge.
Spiral starring Chris Rock releases May 2020. For more on Black horror movies check out this new Shudder documentary Horror Noire and read our questions and answers for Jordan Peele’s Us.
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