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SAW 3D

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SAW 3D

Type of media Film

Approved Running time 89m 46s

Release date 29/10/2010

BBFCInsight Contains strong gory horror

Genre(s) Horror

Director(s) Kevin Greutert

Cast includes Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Gina Holden, Tanedra Howard, Shauna MacDonald, Noam Jenkins, Dean Armstrong, Chad Donella, Naomi Snieckus

Cut This work was passed uncut.

BBFCinsight publication date 19/10/2010

Note: The following text may contain spoilers

SAW 3D is the seventh film in the horror franchise and features a vengeful killer torturing selected victims with elaborate purpose-built devices. It was classified '18' for strong gory horror.

There are several scenes of strong gory horror. The killer often constructs elaborate devices or rigs up machinery to kill his victims. For example, circular saw blades slice into the victims causing blood and intestines to spray from the wounds. In another scene, a man has to remove a fish-hook, attached to a piece of string, that is lodged inside a woman's stomach. As he attempts to retrieve it, the woman coughs up blood until the fish-hook, covered in viscera, is finally removed. The horror and violence throughout the film is often prolonged and sadistic, dwells on the infliction of pain or injury, and also features the strongest gory images. The BBFC's Guidelines at '15' state that 'Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic [...] violence is also unlikely to be acceptable'. Therefore, like its predecessors, the film was only permissible at '18'.

SAW 3D also contains some strong language.

Details

Title
SAW 3D
Year
2010
Distributor(s)
Lions Gate UK Ltd
Classified date(s)
08/10/2010
Main language
English
Submitted run time
89m 46s
Approved footage
8079+0
BBFC reference
BFF271926
Registration number
CFJ22193

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