Here we have a vigilante of sorts who wears a pig’s head and targets cops with a history of corrupt behavior: lying on the witness stand, shooting unarmed civilians, etc. Of course, minor spoiler alert, one of the key distinctions with Spiral is that John Kramer and his disciples don’t have anything to do with the killing spree in this film-they’re mostly mentioned offhand and serve as inspiration for the spinoff’s new sadistic mastermind.
I’m pretty sure John Doe and John Kramer would vibe.) (Both feature depraved minds with twisted moral codes playing god to anyone they deem unworthy. If anything, the franchise could be considered one of the more successful-if not somewhat distant-descendants of Se7en. (By “mythos” I think Bousman mostly means “we still have the torture devices on deck.”) But Spiral’s similarities with Se7en isn’t such a major tonal shift that it’ll discombobulate audiences. Spiral director Darren Lynn Bousman, who previously helmed three Saw sequels, has admitted the spinoff cribbed some from Fincher’s masterpiece, telling Empire that he and Rock envisioned a film that felt like Se7en while maintaining the franchise’s mythos.
(Remember what actually was in the box?) Beyond establishing Fincher as an exciting new filmmaker-and vindicating him after the well-publicized fiasco with Alien 3- Se7en became the gold standard for R-rated procedurals, thrillers, and other genre fare trying to push past the constraints of working within the studio system. Few thrillers have cast a longer shadow than Se7en, David Fincher’s 1995 sophomore feature, which remains an uncompromisingly bleak outlier in the major studio pipeline.
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