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SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW 18

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Too often dismissed as the poster child for ‘torture porn’, there was always more to Saw than senseless sadism. Series spin-off/revival Spiral fully embraces Saw’s widely overlooked strengths, emerging, perhaps surprisingly, as the most political horror movie since Get Out.

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