haunting and chilling

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2019)

Crisp, violent, and completely engaging, Darren Lynn Bousman's Saw III is a horror sequel at the top of its franchise's game. Fitting like a puzzle piece into the scheme of the larger series, this third chapter finds its protagonists clashing in a cat and mouse game of traps and morality while the game's Svengali lies dying. Bousman imbues the work with sickly glow that juxtaposes a near graceful intricacy of scene and story. The work is pulpy and gruesome, but it is gripping and cracklingly constructed.