Some horror movies double as allegories for social issues, while others are all about good old-fashioned scares and special effects. Balancing the two, however, can get tricky. Get too preachy and it just becomes a PSA with blood spatter, but get too gory, and the message is diluted, like Jigsaw’s hamfisted justifications for his many traps across the many Saw movies.
In 2023, one movie found that perfect balance... then took more than two years to reach theaters. But now that it’s finally here, it doesn’t shy away from anything, be it injustice or industrial waste.
