The Saw Franchise Needs To Evolve Beyond John Kramer

The Saw Franchise Needs To Evolve Beyond John Kramer

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw looks to reboot the long-running horror franchise but to do so, it needs to evolve beyond John “Jigsaw” Kramer.

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The Saw Franchise Needs To Evolve Beyond John Kramer

Spiral: From the Book of Saw looks to reboot the long-running Saw series, but to do so, it needs to evolve beyond John Kramer. That’s not meant to be a knock on the character or his portrayer, Tobin Bell. Bell has been consistently great in the role since the beginning, making Jigsaw just sinister enough that he’s believable as a dangerous villain, but also injecting him with enough pathos that it’s also possible to feel sorry about the events that led him to become a killer.

John definitely is a killer too, even if both he and the Saw franchise like to claim otherwise. In the eyes of the law – and also of common sense – putting a person in a death trap they can only escape by brutally mutilating themselves is at best attempted murder, and if they die, it’s clearly homicide on Jigsaw’s part. Putting someone in a machine capable of breaking all their bones, but then offering them a slim chance to survive does not redeem the situation as a whole.

John Kramer’s moral failings aside, he’s certainly always been an interesting character and a very memorable part of each Saw film. At the same time though, after eight films, Saw is bigger than just one man, and the only way it can ever truly move on to a new stage is to stop relying on Jigsaw to tie things together.

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Why The Saw Movies Need To Move On From John “Jigsaw” Kramer

If creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell had anticipated their low-budget horror effort Saw would become such a massive hit, one assumes they would have thought twice about giving their villain terminal cancer. Still, that’s what happened, and respectably, neither they nor anyone else involved with the sequels chose to have John “Jigsaw” Kramer magically become cancer-free. John has been dead since Saw 3, a film that’s now 15 years old. Yet, despite his death, every subsequent sequel has bent itself over backward to incorporate John into the plot somehow. That would be one thing if it meant simply having him make a flashback cameo, but every sequel after Saw 3 has made every new villain a Jigsaw apprentice or basically insinuated John had foresight to an almost superhuman degree, planning out games for years after his death.

As fun as it is to see Tobin Bell do his thing as Jigsaw/John Kramer, the idea he’s still such a big factor in events so long after his demise really started to strain credibility, and John almost became a plot albatross around the neck of the franchise. It’s been four years since 2017’s Jigsaw failed to set the world on fire, and thankfully, it appears from the marketing Spiral: From The Book of Saw is trying to tell its own story within the same universe. While it obviously wouldn’t make sense to not reference John at all in Spiral, there hopefully won’t be any late-game twists tying everything back to John’s grand plan, or that reveal the new killer hunting Chris Rock’s detective was yet another apprentice. Saw needs to move on and become a new beast, and it can’t do that while carrying John’s coffin along behind it.

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