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14 Movies to Watch If You Like Spiral: From The Book of Saw
From Se7en to Cabin Fever, here are the movies that are a must-see for any Saw junkie.
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Welcome to Beat the Algorithm, our recurring series that helps you find something else to watch if you enjoyed a new or notable release. In this edition, we look at some of the movies you should seek out if you enjoy the Saw franchise, especially the latest entry, Spiral.
Just when you thought Hollywood had already delivered more
Saw movies than we could
possibly handle,
Chris Rock and
Richard Kelly is busy revisiting his
Southland Tales
world at the moment. In the new year, fans of the cult sci-fi movie will finally see the infamous Cannes cut, which heavily re-edited following its debut. But a few years after that film, Kelly’s sophomore effort after
Donnie Darko, he attempted to make his most commercial movie with
The Box. Now, over a decade after
The Box‘s release, Kelly is still interested in releasing a Director’s Cut of his third film.
Based on
Richard Matheson‘s short story, the film follows a couple who are presented with a terrible deal: if they press a button on a box given to them by a mysterious man, a stranger dies and they get a million dollars. It’s a great, simple concept, and the film itself is an ambitious sci-fi drama that starts small and then goes big. Originally, Kelly went even bigger. “There is a lot more there,” he told us during a new interview. “There’s probably 45 minutes of scenes that never saw th