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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. From TMDB
98 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw is a 2021 horror mystery film, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Chris Rock, Max Minghella and Samuel L. Jackson.
- 91 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
- posts span May 13, 2021 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 98 · most liked firstRemembering the legendary Ethel Barrymore, Oscar-winning classic film, stage, and radio actress, on her 147th birthday, regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". Beloved for roles in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, THE PARADINE CASE, MOONRISE, PINKY, and much more.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this photo of #Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience Antwerp could go with quite some movie titles, such as The Spiral Staircase (1946) or The Library 2013... #WeekFforFilms #Alphabetchallenge #Historicalbuildings
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday 🐶 The Spiral Staircase (1946) 🎯 The Last of Sheila (1973) 🍿 10 to Midnight (1983) 🌊 One-Eyed Jacks (1961) #letterboxd #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw 10-Film Collection (Digital) is $9.99 on Apple TV apple.co/4b0Ozm1 #ad Saw/Saw X/Spiral/Jigsaw seems to be Movies Anywhere eligible currently
neutral · AI labelView post →I think “Spiral: From the Book of Saw” is the funniest movie title of my lifetime. It takes six words before you get any idea whatsoever what the movie is
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with One Book 📚 - Protector, by Larry Niven One Movie 🎥 - The Fountain One Album 💿 - The Downward Spiral One TV Show 📺 - The Expanse One Videogame 🎮 - Armored Core
neutral · AI labelView post →Perfect rainy afternoon movie, fun 1940s chiller The Spiral Staircase, available on YouTube. boxd.it/9sYnIf
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben mentioned this briefly before the film, COBRA WOMAN was directed by Robert Siodmak, who became one of film noir’s great directors. His later films include The Killers, The Spiral Staircase and Criss Cross. #TCMParty #CobraWoman ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →It's my first #NoirvemberChallenge and it's already living up to its name. After much deliberation, my pick For Best Murder in a #FilmNoir Opening Scene is the gaslight noir THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946). It is so creepy, and makes us part of the story with the hugely meta early movie theater setting.
neutral · AI labelView post →As mentioned on this week's Thought Spiral, here's the short film I made earlier this century, "The Mediocre Samaritan" youtu.be/B4VH8X2av8s?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies this week: The Last House (2026), The Thing (2011), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), Passenger (2026), The Spiral Staircase (1946), House of Wax (1953). Watch Carrie next or knock off another vintage horror? #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky #movies #horrorsky #horrorfest
neutral · AI labelView post →Despite the disclaimers at the start of the movies, you do get people trying to emulate the iconic regression inducing hypnotic swirls of the Hypno Spiral movies at home! Of course, it doesn't work as well without that movie magic! ⤵️
neutral · AI labelView post →ALL SAW MOVIES, RANKED: ACTUALLY GOOD: * Saw VI * Saw WATCHABLE: * Saw V * Saw X * Saw II * Jigsaw BARELY WATCHABLE: * Saw: The Musical * Saw III * Saw IV ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE: * Saw 3D "NOT A SAW MOVIE" TIER: * Spiral: From The Book of Saw
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I've had a little sleep, some TIFF and Fantastic Fest titles to put on your radar (aka my faves). Starting with what will be Italy's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, THE SPIRAL. Such a fun, wicked Faustian tale.
neutral · AI labelView post →The horror film The Spiral Staircase (1946) recreates what it was like to watch a movie circa 1906 (though in something of an anachronism the movie being shown is the Sands of Dee from 1912)
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Movie: Spiral Director: Darren Lynn Bousman Definitely think this movie gets too much hate. #HorrorSky #FilmSky #Horror
positive · AI labelView post →Spiral Rolleiflex SL35M Ultrafine Finesse 100 Arista liquid film developer 1+9 7-minute development.
neutral · AI labelView post →'Roid Week Fall 2024 Day 1 - Post 2 Spiral. Fujifilm Instax mini EVO + Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome film Settings: FILM No. 5 Monochrome + LENS No. 8 Mirror #believeinfilm #filmphotography #instaxminievo #instaxminimonochrome #roidweekfall2024
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your fave black & white movie? You can't expect me to pick just ONE. M The Spiral Staircase Dr. Strangelove To Kill a Mockingbird Metropolis Double indemnity Arsenic and Old Lace Casablanca Night of the Living Dead The Ghost and Mrs. Muir I CAN'T JUST CHOOSE ONE.
neutral · AI labelView post →My #Noirvember film #15, Robert Siodmak’s THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE. Mute housemaid is stalked by a serial killer who is terrorising the small town she works in. Incredibly atmospheric, beautifully shot, genuinely suspenseful film that also functions as a proto slasher.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to George Lucas, perhaps best known for how a violent beating in his film “THX-1138” was sampled for the opening to Trent Reznor’s “The Downward Spiral.”
neutral · AI labelView post →This silent movie #spiral is one of my favorites precisely because it's wobbly and handmade taking me further and further down with every turn of the crank.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase is an excellent film that I hadn't heard of until I started this year's challenge. Movie 046/100 #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #Filmsky #Horrorsky #MutantFam
neutral · AI labelView post →A classic #spiral black and white Shot on film, this gets it right.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: ‘Spiral’ was the first film in the ‘Saw’ franchise to not physically feature actor Tobin Bell or feature the John Kramer / Jigsaw character beyond photographs. (Wikipedia) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: 'Ring 2' is the only entry in the Japanese 'Ring' series that is not based on Koji Suzuki's novel series. This was because the film was produced less than a year after the first film to replace the 'Ring' sequel 'Spiral' which was panned by audiences. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I watch the happy past montage in this film, I just assume that they wanted to use the Intrtlude song from The Downward Spiral, but they already spent their allotted Nine Inch Nails budget on the soundtrack ... . #FrightClub #TheCrow
neutral · AI labelView post →Iconic Movie Scenes: Halloweek The killer watches Helen. The Spiral Staircase (1946) Lovely gothic look and feel despite being outdoors youtu.be/Gx306GPNVNs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Spiral (from the book of Saw) today and oof, that's a stinky movie right there, that's what that is.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie 34- The Spiral Staircase (1946) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →"Backward Outside Death Spiral 3" sounds like a figure skating anime horror movie and yet it's such a beautiful move #olympics #figureskating
neutral · AI labelView post →This unit and Jack the teddy might be in trouble. We sat down to watch a horror movie, but this wonderful spiral came on; and we don’t want to stop watching. Who wants to join our movie night? 📸 by @rubbertoyastro.bsky.social #rubberdrone #dronification #hypnosis #spiral #gasmask #spookyvibes
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Spiral with @jazzpomegranate.bsky.social , the one saw movie I swore I'd never watch.
negative · AI labelView post →202Saw rolls on with 2021's Spiral: From the Book of Saw, a very weird movie for many reasons. Above all: Chris Rock.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for movie #2! The next randomly selected movie is... Spiral: From the Book of Saw, 2021
neutral · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase is a surprisingly perfect movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Mistakes: The title Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) refers to Twisted Pictures' 2004 horror movie of the same name. However, Saw (2004) was not a book; it was a film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Immediately had to write about NO REST FOR THE WICKED, a hauntingly beautiful and primally Queer vampire film. Neck and bitten neck (and nipple) with The Spiral for top of Fantastic Fest for me so far! cinapse.net/2026/09/fant...
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought I was done bidding on The Spiral Jetty fifteen years ago, but now a vintage 16mm print of Robert Smithson's film is coming up for auction. greg.org/archive/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →Spiral is a great movie. Hard to watch but so good.
positive · AI labelView post →There was supposed to be a red spiral atop my saw themed coffee but alas it turned out as well as the movie Spiral.
negative · AI labelView post →I'll play. Vampire Movie: Let the Right One In Zombie Movie: Night of the Living Dead Haunting Movie: The Uninvited Creature Feature: Godzilla Minus One Found Footage: [•REC] Slasher: The Spiral Staircase Cosmic Horror: The Thing Psychological Horror: Eyes Without a Face
neutral · AI labelView post →While I'm waiting for my film to come back from the lab, I'll post some images from my phone. Vatican Museum Spiral Samsung S25 Ultra #photography #photo #rome
neutral · AI labelView post →I will be good as the rest of #FantasticFest goes on, but this makes a good starting point. Seen several good films so far but still have special spots for both THE SPIRAL and INTO THE SKY. One hit me on a funny & dark level I needed & the other is a "curse" film I very much needed in my life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paolo Strippoli's stylish and subversively twisty chiller THE SPIRAL casts Jasmine Trinca as a Real Housewife of Bari and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as the stranger who claims her soul. Delectably nasty fun about the steep price of perfection. #Venice2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase (1946): Well done Psychological Horror film that yes, plenty of drama but when it the Horror hits, it hits well and it helps that Dorothy McGuire carries the film as Helen without even saying a single word until the end.
neutral · AI labelView post →Second movie: Spiral (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic Fest 2026: THE SPIRAL (2026) @yoadriantorres.bsky.social on Paolo Strippoli’s tremendous film that examines the price a family must pay to get what they want. #FantasticFest www.neonsplatter.com/reviews/fant...
neutral · AI labelView post →260. Spiral (2019) #filmsky #movies #film #horror #horrorsky #Horror365Challenge
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Spiral: From The Book Of Saw so much. it's such a dogshit movie. I'd call it the second-worst Saw movie, but I'm not even sure it counts as a Saw movie
negative · AI labelView post →THE SPIRAL 🎥 should have been a hysterical camp masterpiece, but the fatphobia is so genuine the entire movie becomes too nasty to enjoy movieswetextedabout.com/the-spiral-i...
negative · AI labelView post →Good morning, I just remembered the film Spiral: From the Book of Saw.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film 48 of #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days: Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) - Darren Lynn Bousman Source: itvX A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the month chapter of the spine-tingling Saw franchise. Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson star.
neutral · AI labelView post →You can’t help but be drawn into THE SPIRAL. My review of the best film I’ve seen so far at this year’s #fantasticfest over at @cinapse.bsky.social cinapse.net/2026/09/fant...
neutral · AI labelView post →#TIFF Movie #5 - The Spiral - 5/10 I dunno, man. After the way Obsession blew-up last year after its screening at Midnight Madness, I don't know that they needed to schedule yet *another* Monkey's Paw type horror, albeit more of a psychological one. I had high hopes for this one nonetheless, but ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to NIN Downward Spiral, having a few microbrews (I’m not a snob, I’m allergic to gluten), and plotting a late night of movie watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →Italian director Paolo Strippoli’s horror-thriller THE SPIRAL (L'ESTRANEA), which debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival yesterday and will go into wide Italian release on October 8, is partially holiday-set. The story of a family willing to sell their souls in order to appear perfect.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Spiral, Weight of The World, and The Gift Back to Back, if you watch it like that it kind of feels like an epic film doesn’t it. Has anyone else watched it like this? #BTVS #BuffyTheVampireSlayer #HorrorSKY
neutral · AI labelView post →I spent half this movie trying to figure out why the cop guy looks so familiar only to realize he was the twist villain of Spiral: From The Book of Saw and playing basically the exact same role. that's rough, buddy.
negative · AI labelView post →The opening to Spiral was same old same old. The follow up was uninspired cop movie 101. Now that all of that is finished, Chris Rock has been making the rest of the movie AMAZING.
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