Jigsaw: Evolution

Jigsaw: Evolution is a 2018 American Horror film written by Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater, directed by Taika Waititi starring Matt Passmore, Hannah Emily Anderson, Clé Bennett, Emma Kenney, Brandon Larracuente, Victoria Justice, Morgan Saylor, Connor Jessup, Jaz Sinclair, Kofi Siriboe, Courtney Kato and Cary Elwes. It is the ninth overrall instalment in the Saw film franchise and follows Jigsaw (2017). The film concerns John Kramer/Jigsaw accomplice Logan in the wake of the 2017 test subjects and Hallorann murder integrating fellow colleague Eleanor Bonneville into the world of being an apprentice, tasking her with setting up a game involving a group of adolescents. The film again was a departure in style for the series opting instead of the usual claustrophia and overt violence for a more subtle approach, though working in darker overtones to the previous instalment. The film was released theatrically and in IMAX select theatres on October 29th, 2018 to mixed reviews from critics, praise from audiences and positive reception to its' direction and cinematography.

Plot
The film begins with high school principal Walter Boorman (Wallace Shawn) awaken in his college office after chase and abduction from the college campus in his office. He has a pyramid styled device on his head and a Billy the Puppet seated in the other chair reciting the task of releasing himself by via office intercom announcing all his indiscretions. The final indiscretion however he chooses death over, feigning is age and the consequence being life imprisonment, as a result the contraption folds his head up, the chair he was seated in rolls back and he is expunged out the window as the TA meeting parents and students that heard his confessions repel in shock.

Logan Nelson and Eleanor Bonneville are revealed as the orchestrators of Walter's trap and Eleanor is being trained to be Logan's apprentice as they continue John Kramer's Jigsaw legacy. Eleanor is struggling with remorse after the Walter Boorman death and with their abduction of eight high school students involved with Principal Boorman in the scandal incident that caused the death of Eleanor's younger sister Beth.

The group of adolescents awaken in the circus tent of an abandoned amusement park. The group comprises of academic Layna Emerson, school captain Patrick Mendone, school gymnast and Patrick's girlfriend Kylie Sanderson, Kylie's best friend Sienna Miller, Sienna's ex-boyfriend and short tempered Mal Reynolds, Millie Davis, Millie's brother Wes and Jenny Si.

The group are to traverse a series of tests to assume freedom.

The tent itself deflates with spikes and the group escapes as an entrance appears.

The group's tests juxtapose with Eleanor and Logan, Eleanor delving more and more into the death of her sister and John Kramer, discovering that other than herself, Logan and Dr. Lawrence Gordon there is another accomplice.

Detective Keith Hunt following the death of Detective Hallorann becomes convinced that Logan and Eleanor are involved and is assigned the investigation into the missing Grandview High teenagers.

Patrick dies in the anvil chamber test, a test where the group must surpass a set of seven falling anvils as controls the fall by a claw machine rigged to a mechanism controlling the set death falls.

Jenny being the one just before Patrick witnesses his demise and then in a state of panic and trauma takes her own life via stabbing herself in the jugular with a secretly provided knife from the awakening tent.