Dismemberment and howls of pain follow, and as soon as Gordon is free of one foot he crawls out of the room, assuring the still-chained Adam he’ll get help. Chained to rusty pipes, Gordon takes the hand saw that was sinisterly placed inside the room for him and hacks his own foot off. It’s revealed he’s a pawn like everyone else, and then the film reaches its denouement. Gordon (Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) in a hellish makeshift dungeon with a dead body on the floor with them as part of a game. The film misdirects you, making you think the weirdo Zep (Michael Emerson) is behind the murders, locking Dr. Eight sequels later and there’s still no topping it.Įarly in the film you hear the killer Jigsaw before you see him-his voice tape-recorded, giving his victims a choice on whether to live or die in their personalized traps. It’s a confluence of elements that tumble together with enough brute force that it works, thanks to James Wan’s direction and Leigh Whannell‘s script. The ending of 2004’s Saw is still manages to surprise-the reveal of the killer, how exactly he's revealed, the final lines of dialogue, that smash cut to black, all scored by that iconic theme by Charlie Clouser, it all still hits hard. In looking at Spiral’s ending, I take a look back at how every Saw film before it ends, and how they stack up to that original’s still-perfect finale.
#MOVIES WITH TWIST ENDINGS LIKE SAW SERIES#
The new film Spiral does prove itself a worthy Saw entry because it recognizes and respects a lot of what makes this series work so well 17 years on-and one thing it gets right is that ending. You want to make a Saw movie? Well, it better have one hell of an ending. What sets it apart are its ending, an important staple of the series.
Revisiting the first film and subsequent sequels now makes me think this franchise-in the early run for sure-errs more on the side of avant-garde than the sensationalized "torture porn" label it’s been stuck with. Well, no surprise, I was instantly hooked. From the gore effects to the over-the-top acting (Cary Elwes is certainly going for the fences and I applaud him for it), to the ever-present grime on every frame that doesn’t look like it’ll ever wash away, and that cacophonous score(!!), all of it won me over.
It was right around the release of the first sequel I didn’t know what to expect with the original because, since the start, the Saw series has always held the baggage of being bad and distasteful horror films. I rented the first Saw on DVD sometime in 2005 from my local Hastings Video Store (RIP). Spoilers ahead for all the Saw movies, including Spiral.
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