They’re both briskly entertaining.Įscape Room is available to rent on Amazon, Vudu, and other platforms.
Tournament of Champions has pretty typical sequel problems, in that it’s more of the same without enough new wrinkles. But it’s fun to see what Jigsaw might have worked up if he had a larger operating budget, and the characters, led by Taylor Russell’s Zoey, convey human emotion more convincingly than most of the actors in Saw, whose house style involves a lot of sweaty screaming. It’s essentially Saw without the grimy self-help angle, though some horror fans will doubtless find these virtually gore-free alternatives overly sanitized.
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The first movie sets up a sequel, and the new sequel, like both the Saw series and its Sony stablemate Resident Evil, immediately follows through on some of the setup, while deferring other developments to as-yet-unmade future installments. Sony clearly has its eye on a long-running B-movie saga with this PG-13 version of the house-of-traps subgenre. Here are seven solid movies that play the Saw game more successfully than Spiral: The Escape Room series Photo: Columbia Pictures That said, horror and horror-adjacent movies tend to offer the closest approximation of the Saw experience. Hell, the Fast & Furious films could be considered a form of Saw spinoff, given how they’ve paralleled the series’ wonderfully wonky, ever-expanding later-period continuity. Not all of these Sawalikes are as conceptually close to the original as the Escape Room sequel, but they all offer more interesting variations on the series’ familiar tropes than Spiral, and together, they reveal that doing Saw better than Saw has become a cottage industry over the years. There are an awful lot of Saw imitators on the market, taking advantage of that first film’s low-budget, grimy aesthetic and elaborate deathtraps. Fortunately, anyone in the market for Not Quite a Saw Movie has plenty of other options available - starting with the recent Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, which sequelizes the original 2019 Escape Room by making the premise play even more like Saw Junior. As the filmmakers insisted, it isn’t exactly Saw IX, but it isn’t exactly a new type of horror trap, either. Though some fans may enjoy the attempt to revive the sprawling, complicated Saw franchise, or at least might like Chris Rock’s early-movie tight five on divorce and Forrest Gump, Spiral doesn’t reach the heights of fan favorites Saw III or Saw VI. ( Spiral’s first digital rental window opened in June, but it was initially premium-priced as a simultaneous theatrical release.)
Jackson) and legacy sequel (with Saw II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman) in its May theatrical run can now be affordably disappointed from the comfort of their own home. Spiral: From the Book of Saw is now available for cheap digital rental and in various home-video formats, so any Saw fans who might have missed this combination reboot (with Chris Rock and Samuel L.
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