Jigsaw Movie Review

Jigsaw is the eighth movie in the Saw franchise, which supposedly ended with the "final chapter," 2010's Saw 3D. Like the others, the movie features diabolically grisly death traps (like an adult-themed haunted house), with extreme blood and gore, torture, and violence directed at women. Heads and limbs are sliced to bits, needles are injected, and characters die in many gruesome ways. There are also guns and shooting, fighting and hitting with blunt objects, and a flashback to a baby being smothered. Language includes several uses of "f--k," "s--t," and "a--hole." Brief cigarette smoking is shown, and a minor character is referred to as a "meth head." A woman wears fishnet stockings in one scene, and bare breasts are seen in a body in the morgue.

The film is directed by Michael Spierig and Michael Spierig, two American directors known as The Spierig Brothers who are characterized by a type of cinema close to horror and science fiction. They began their cinematographic career with the short film "The Big Picture" (2000), a drama that had some success the year of its premiere. After this short film directed Undead (2003), a survival horror about low budget zombies that had great acceptance and won some awards at several independent film festivals. Several years later they directed one of their greatest successes, this is Daybreakers (2009), a horror and science fiction film about vampires starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill. In addition to a box office success, the film got and was nominated for several awards at film festivals. His next work was another science fiction film starring Ethan Hawke and entitled Predestination (2014). The film was widely accepted at the box office and also received many awards and nominations

WHAT'S THE STORY?
it's been 10 years since notorious killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) was himself killed. And then five people wake up with buckets on their heads, chained at the neck. They're dragged to spinning saws that will not stop unless they offer up some blood. One does not make it. From there the traps continue, with deadly, heavy planning and precision. Meanwhile, Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) brings a shooting victim to the morgue, where medical examiners Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore) and Eleanor Bonneville (Hannah Emily Anderson) find clues leading back to Jigsaw. Along with Detective Hunt (Cle Bennett), they begin to suspect who the killer might be. Not trusting the cops, they head to where the clues lead: an abandoned pig farm full of spiky, murderous equipment. Will anyone survive?

MOVIE INFO
Rating: R (for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and for language)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Directed By: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Written By: Josh Stolberg, Peter Goldfinger
In theaters: October 27, 2017
Runtime: 91 minutes
Music: Charlie Clouser
Studio: Lionsgate
Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Brittany Allen, Matt Passmore, Mandela Van Peebles, Hannah Emily Anderson, Michael Boisvert, Lauren Beatty, Shaquan Lewis, James Gomez

Fuentes: CommonSenseMedia.org & RottenTomatoes.com