Like this
franchise mindlessly does away with its characters, I’ll do away with the plot
or any discussion around the horror genre. So let’s cut to the case. Following
a seven-year hiatus, Jigsaw has returned. While the trailer begs you to ask “how”,
given that the most sadistic, self-righteous and delusional killer to have
disgraced the silver screen was blatantly killed (and there’s nothing that
spells blatant death like this franchise) in an earlier sequel, the question on
everyone’s minds is an exasperated “why”.
(Spoiler ahead) The answer is
simple: as stated in its own trailer, Halloween is there for the taking. This
time, besides a title with a few extra letters at the front, expect the same
soulless, gornographic series of nightmarishly-violent boobie-traps that fill a
razor-thin plot intertwined with one involving a yada-yada conspiracy amongst a
group of detectives, as the film desperately tries to piece together a puzzle
that was never there to begin with. In fact, I’ll save you the trouble: Jigsaw –
Tobin Bell’s John Kramer – is dead,
and the events of this film – at least those which involve the traps – took place
ten years beforehand, making it a near-enough rip-off of Saw 2, but a certain rip-off in general.
Exactly where the franchise belongs - dead and buried
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