Seven years after the final act of the puzzle killer, the gore series Saw (imagined by James Wan and Leigh Whannel) returns to our screens next October with a sequel called Jigsaw.
A musically terrifying trailer that returns to the canons of the franchise was released on July 20. This eighth opus relaunches the franchise launched in 2004 and which ended in 2010 with Saw 3D.
Initially shot with a ridiculous budget, $ 1.2 million, Saw was a pavement in the pond of gory films, which knew how to reconnect with an increasingly young audience. The co-writers of the first part (so Leigh Whannel who plays the role of Adam, the first victim of the killer) wanted a violent and effective film, all shot in a minimalist setting, like the Blair Witch Project or Darren Aronofsky's magnificent Pi. A successful bet since the film has multiplied its bet by ten and led to a franchise of seven parts.
The story revolves around John Kramer (played by Tobin Bell) aka Jigsaw, who kidnaps his victims and offers them an escape from their sins. All the victims have committed an amoral act (in the mind of the killer anyway) and are physically and mentally subjected to deadly games involving machines as clever as they are deadly. The victim is informed of his punishment and the rules of the game (every fisherman always has the opportunity to get out alive, with a physical sacrifice such as sawing his leg in the first part). Jigsaw ends his explanations with the ritual phrase "Live or die, make your choice". From a narrative point of view, Saw plays on the element of surprise with a final twist that turns the viewer's vision upside down and ends it with a final death.
Jigsaw, with a simple title but deliberately different from Saw VIII, will be released in American theaters on October 27 and November 1 in France. This sequel, originally named Saw Legacy, promises to be an additional piece in this puzzle full of hemoglobin. Ten years have passed and here we are back with new twisted traps, cops totally overwhelmed by events, five victims in red thread (including two bimbos as in many classics of the genre), a villain who seems to have returned from the dead and his blood found on the new victims.We are in the classic pattern of Hollywood sequels. We can therefore expect even more sophisticated mechanisms (the demonic motorcycle, a tank that fills with blunt objects from the sky …) as well as some scripted pirouettes that will link this part with the previous ones.
The soundtrack will be taken over by Charlie Clouser, the virtuoso who rocked the previous films with heavy, anxiety-provoking and terribly effective music. Regarding the direction, two newcomers, the German-Australian twins Peter and Michael Spierig, customary of the genre (Undead, Daybreakers and Predestination), have the heavy burden of breathing new life into the franchise which, without a doubt, will not end on this eighth part.
Basically, nothing very new with this film that follows the path traced by its predecessors, except the surprise (and a certain pleasure it must be admitted) to discover the most unhealthy traps imagined by the screenwriters.
Jigsaw Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcb68kAOvt4
