It might be a controversial opinion among the fanboys and girls of the Eighties slasher franchises, but the Saw series is one of the most interesting mainstream horror franchises of all time. It is why 2017’s soft reboot Jigsaw was a disaster. With cheap tie-ins to keep John Kramer (Tobin Bell) tangled in the plot after Jigsaw was a colossal misfire for the series. Enter Chris Rock, whose smooth talking at a Brazilian wedding found himself in a pitch room with Lionsgate executives to bring back the Saw franchise again, but not in the way one would expect. Spiral, helmed by longtime franchise director Darren Lynn Bousman, doesn’t need Kramer and his group of apprentices to feel like a