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Darren Bousman Says ‘Spiral’ Furthers the ‘Saw’ Mythology and Brings a Fresh Tone to the Franchise
“You wanna know the twist of Spiral? Okay, I’ll tell you,” jokes Darren Lynn Bousman, director of the brand new Saw movie that was supposed to hit theaters this past May before the pandemic forced Lionsgate to push it all the way to 2021.
Bousman, who was behind the camera for Saw II-IV, returned to the director’s chair for the Chris Rock-fronted Spiral: From the Book of Saw, which looks and feels like a Saw movie, but also something completely different.
“I can tell you that it feels like a Saw movie at times and at other times it’s its own completely different thing,” Bousman tells The Boo Crew Podcast.
“It furthers the Saw mythology yet it takes it in a completely fresh direction. I’m really excited.”
As Bousman notes, after several Saw sequels, Spiral is going to attempt something completely different. The result? “Uproarious laughter” at a test screening.
“We did an early screening of [Spiral] when we thought it was coming out and it was so awesome sitting in the theater because…” Bousman sidetracks and shares an anecdote about his first call with Rock before bringing it back to the test screening. “[Rock] is hilarious as a person, obviously, but the movie is not a comedy,” he continued. “But there are a couple of really amazing hilarious things that take place – because it is Chris Rock. In sitting in the [test screening] audience, I’ve never heard people laugh at a Saw movie – it doesn’t happen – and you hear this uproarious laughter, and then this immediate silence, because it turns on a dime.
“The tone is so fresh and new and different and Chris is just amazing in the movie.”
Bousman appeared on The Boo Crew Podcast to talk about his newest movie, Death of Me, being released by Saban Films on October 2, 2020.
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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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