‘We Wanted Traps You Could Put Together from Home Depot’: How the ‘Saw X’ Team Brought the Franchise Back to Basics

“Saw X” begins with the kind of reverse time jump that only a horror franchise on its tenth film would dare to attempt. After the previous eight sequels advanced the story of John “Jigsaw” Kramer and his many imitators in a relatively linear fashion — while relying heavily on flashbacks to keep including Tobin Bell...