Face your fears. A lesson worthy of praise, if the film preaching them weren't so completely full of ****.
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Saw III (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 20
Rotten:58
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus: Saw III does little beyond repeating its predecessor's tropes on a gorier level.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release: Oct 27, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $80,150,343
Synopsis: In 2004, a low-budget horror film about a man who put people with moral failings into grisly, murderous situations became a huge hit. In 2005, the sequel scored again, upping the body count and the terror. In 2006, the franchise continued,... [More]
Starring: Tobin Bell, Angus MacFadyen, Dina Meyer, Shawnee Smith
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Reviews for Saw III
Starts with an interesting premise but quickly squanders it on the usual barely-glimpsed bloodbaths.
08/18/07
One of the most sadistic, brutal, grisly films of the current splatter-porn genre.
03/24/07
The only brains on display are the ones that get drilled out of human skulls.
02/12/07
Like an herbal blend of grand guignol and gothic horror, Saw isn't everyone's cup of tea.
12/26/06
It requires a stretch of the imagination too far, but there's still plenty of gore and tricksy murders here.
11/29/06
If humorless torture marathons like this represent the future of American horror cinema, it's time for Hollywood to officially outsource the genre overseas, where they remember the pleasures of a good scare.
11/13/06
No one will ever be able to accuse series creators and scribes Leigh Wannell and James Wan of being stingy with the red stuff.
11/11/06
If you found Hannibal's brain cooking scene a tad too much, you will want to avoid Saw III; but if you are a fan of the gory versions of horror, this will be an iconic essential
11/10/06
I couldn't watch Saw III without thinking of reality TV shows like Fear Factor. Can it be a deliberate parody?
11/09/06
not great filmmaking, but very profitable and a fun way to get some cheap Halloween thrills.
11/08/06
God or Jack Valenti only knows how this work of pure entertainment got an R rating 'for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language.'
11/07/06
Top Critic ...getting dangerously close to turning the mangled bloody body business into tedious and tripe titillation...the Jigsaw chaotic chronicles have run its corrosive course
11/06/06
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