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Twitter spiral saw2/13/2024 “Initiation”: A university’s pledge week takes a sinister turn when a star athlete is murdered, setting off a spree of social media slayings that drives a group of students to discover the school’s dark secrets. “Gangs of London: Season 1”: The murder of London’s most powerful crime boss sets off a violent struggle to fill the underworld void in this British TV drama. Before long, they are wreaking havoc on the swamps and trailer parks of Florida. “Feral State”: A grifter uses his charisma to attract a gang of followers made up of runaway and orphaned children. “Die In A Gunfight”: A modern update on “Romeo and Juliet” with a dash of “Succession” mixed in, this film features Diego Boneta and Alexandra Daddario as star-crossed lovers from powerful rival families in present-day New York City. As she does so, however, the body count mounts in this horror flick. “Jakob’s Wife”: After a chance encounter with “The Master,” a woman dissatisfied with her marriage to a small-town minister discovers a new sense of boldness. “Dream Horse”: Based on a true story, this film stars Tony Collette as a Welsh village bartender who convinces her friends and neighbors to pool their money and buy a colt, thus entering the dizzying world of high-stakes horse racing. But they try too hard to avoid stepping on too many toes, resulting in a film that’s muddled and messy on many levels.” However, she noted, “‘Spiral’ exists in a very different cultural moment, and the filmmakers attempt to speak to it, with a killer using torture as a means of exerting bloody justice on corrupt cops. “The original torture porn trend was a product of the political climate of the time, as the ‘War on Terror’ manifested ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA torture reports,” writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. “Spiral”: This latest entry in the “Saw” franchise features Chris Rock as a police detective investigating a grisly set of murders by a Jigsaw copycat killer. ![]() The reboot of an aughts horror series known for going heavy on gore tops the DVD releases for the week of July 20.
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