‘Jigsaw’ Trailer: The Twisted Game Master Is Back From Beyond The Grave
Tobin Bell’s twisted character Jigsaw, aka John Kramer, died in 2006’sSaw III, but his impact is still being felt ten years after the events of 2010’s now-incorrectly-namedSaw: The Final Chapter. Kramer is somehow back to his old ways inJigsaw, Lionsgate’s first sequel to the franchise in seven years, and that means more gruesome traps, more elaborate games, and the return of that sinister little tricycle-riding doll.
Check out the firstJigsawtrailer below.
Jigsaw trailer
I don’t consider myself a huge fan of this franchise; I stopped watching newSawmovies after the fifth one, but I still remember how much my mind was blown at how the fourth film played with the saga’s timeline. All that’s to say that even a half-hearted fan like me recognizes some key components here that seem to throw back to previous films: the puzzle piece carved out of flesh, the traps encasing people’s heads (though I think the chains pulling them toward buzzsaws are a new invention), the cassette tape with instructions…yep, this is aSawmovie, all right. But how in the hell is Kramer still pulling off all of these tricks? It can’t be as simple as just a copycat killer like that cop suggests, because they have his voice on the tapes, right? I may have to jump back in and check this out just to see how they came up with a way of making this a sequel instead of a straight-up reboot.
The movie starsLaura Vandervoort(Smallville),Hannah Anderson(Shoot The Messenger),Callum Keith Rennie(Battlestar Galactica,The Man in the High Castle), andClé Bennett(Heroes Reborn), and it is directed byPeterandMichael Spierig, the filmmakers behind movies likePredestinationandDaybreakers.
Previously, Michael Spierig said the upcoming entry would not be as vicious as previous films in the long-running franchise, and he and his brother were aiming to inject “more fun” into this story:
Here’s the film’s creepy teaser poster, which references the pig mask we first witnessed back in the originalSawin 2004:
