[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Spiral (2021)

Chris Rock plays a homicide detective handed the task, along with a reluctant back up team thanks to shit that went down years before, of stopping what appears to be a Jigsaw copycat killer.

I really enjoyed Spiral. There's enough unrelated police corruption back story to give the cops and their attitudes to Rock a simmering tension away from the boiling tension of watching the wildly impressive murderous traps of the copycat Jigsaw killer. In a way it has the feel of a little brother to Fincher's Seven (1995) without the gut punch ending of course.

Rock is fine as the cop at the centre of the film, if a little shouty, but it's the support cast of Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols and Samuel L Jackson that give the film that something extra.

It's been a long time since i saw (Haha) any of the Saw series and i found Spiral: From the Book of Saw, to give it it's full title, quite refreshing and a stand out in what seems to have been years of gore free, scare free studio horror.