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Saw III is a 2006 American horror and crime film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The screenplay was written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, who also served as producers alongside Mark Burg and Gregg Hoffman. Twisted Pictures produced the film, which was distributed by Lionsgate Films and Netflix. The cast includes Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, and Bahar Soomekh. Filming took place in Toronto, and the movie runs for 108 minutes.
The film was released on October 26, 2006, and carries an R rating. It has received mixed critical reception, with a Metascore of 48/100 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 28%. Audience ratings vary, including a 6.2 score from 228,530 votes on IMDb and a 6.418 average from 4,925 votes on TMDb. The film earned a budget of $10,000,000 and generated $164,874,275 in revenue. It has received one award and nine nominations.
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Film · TMDB
6.4Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
Cast
- Tobin Bell as John Kramer / Jigsaw
- Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young
- Angus Macfadyen as Jeff Reinhart
- Bahar Soomekh as Lynn Denlon
- Donnie Wahlberg as Eric Matthews
- Dina Meyer as Kerry
Themes
- sadism
- brain tumor
- suffocation
- torture
- survival horror
- death match
- mutilation
- mind game
- brain surgery
- death game
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
226,704 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
28%
Metacritic
48/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 9 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Darren Lynn Bousman
- Screenplay by
- Leigh Whannell
- Story by
- Leigh Whannell James Wan
- Produced by
- Gregg Hoffman Oren Koules Mark Burg
- Starring
- Tobin Bell Shawnee Smith Angus Macfadyen Bahar Soomekh Dina Meyer
- Cinematography
- David A. Armstrong
- Edited by
- Kevin Greutert
- Music by
- Charlie Clouser
- Production company
- Twisted Pictures
- Distributed by
- Lionsgate Films
- Release date
- October 27, 2006 ( 2006-10-27 )
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $10 million
- Box office
- $164.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Saw III is a 2006 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and a story by Whannell and James Wan. A sequel to Saw II (2005) and the third installment in the Saw film series, it stars Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, and Dina Meyer.
In the film, John Kramer (Bell), who is known as the Jigsaw Killer and forces his victims to participate in deadly games in order to test their will to live, puts a man named Jeff (Macfadyen) through a series of tests of his ability to forgive, after Jeff's son was killed by a drunk driver. Meanwhile, John's apprentice Amanda (Smith) has kidnapped a doctor named Lynn (Soomekh) and tasked her with keeping John, who is bedridden with terminal cancer, alive long enough for Jeff to complete his game.
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