“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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