I like being scared; what I don't particularly like is being grossed or winced out.

Director Darren Lynn Bousman, on his fourth Saw film, keeps things fresh while also nodding, via the pig mask and a scene involving handcuffs and a hacksaw, to where it all began in 2004.

In trying to save itself, the Saw series got caught in a convoluted trap of its own making.

A massive rebound from the days when Hoffman was carrying the franchise.Spiral works more often than it doesn’t.