It doesn’t take much knowledge of the horror genre to realize a final chapter hardly means anything. Just as many franchises that have had a “final chapter” have carried on with gleeful bloodletting as if nothing of finality has ever even occurred. So it’s no surprise the Saw series has returned. Seven years after the series’ apparent conclusion, the games are rigged back up, the unwilling participants are again in imminent peril, and the mysteries surrounding the Jigsaw killer and his legacy are at it once again. While the return of this franchise could have been used to shake things up, though, those traps and the mystery they bring offer little freshness or a sense of the new to the proceedings. Fans of the series will be happy with the franchise’s return, but the Spierig Brothers’ Jigsaw and its latest game won’t be winning over any new contestants. ›››
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