PREVIEW: Spiral: From the Book of Saw (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Chris Rock (Top Five), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Max Minghella (The Social Network), Marisol Nichols (Delta Farce), Zoie Palmer (Devil), Morgan David Jones (Molly’s Game), Ali Johnson (Distance), Dan Petronijevic (He Never Died), Edie Inksetter (Godsend), Leila Leigh (Helicopter Mom), Christopher Tai (A Deadly View), John Tokatlidis (Compulsion), Genelle Williams (Orphan)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Darren Lynn Bousman (Repo! The Genetic Opera), director; Pete Goldfinger (Jigsaw) and Josh Stolberg (Good Luck Chuck), writers; Mark Burg (Saw) and Oren Koules (Dead Silence), producers; Charlie Clouser (Death Sentence), composer; Jordan Oram (film debut), cinematographer; Dev Singh (Blackfoot Trail), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Zeke Banks (Rock), a brash police detective who always finds himself in the shadow of his esteemed police veteran father Marcus Banks (Jackson), takes charge of an investigation into a series of grisly murders that eerily replicate those of the infamous “Jigsaw Killer”. Soon, both Zeke and his rookie partner William Schenk (Minghella) find themselves at the centre of this new killer’s gruesome new game…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This new entry into the ongoing Saw franchise takes things in a radically different direction, which features higher-ranking talent like Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson embroiled in some classic death traps that have become pertinent to the series’ identity.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 17TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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