Running time: 90 mins.

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Kevin Greutert, who has edited the previous five films in the Saw franchise, graduates to the director’s chair for this latest exercise in blood and gore, timed as ever to tempt moviegoers into multiplexes on Hallowe’en.

Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) lives to slay another day — from beyond the grave — as Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) emerges as the one and only successor to the diabolical killer’s crown.

FBI profiler Strahm (Scott Patterson), one of the only people who could expose Hoffman, is now dead.

However, Strahm’s colleagues now have the duplicitous detective’s scent, and as the police close in on their prey, Hoffman is compelled to orchestrate one last game of survival into motion, which finally reveals the true scale of Jigsaw’s horrific master plan.