The Saw franchise is a novel one. Basically, unlike most horror films, this one actively went out to try and make you puke your entire insides up through your tear-ducts. Instead of having ghouls and monsters and the like (which, it has to be said, are stupidly fun), Saw went about getting the protagonist in each film and making them do unspeakably grim things to themselves.
However, like all horror franchises, you get overkill. There’s only so much gore you can take before you find that you’ve stopped crying and dry-heaving and started masturbating furiously to it. Basically, after a while, violence and open-sores stop being horrible and start becoming… well… nothing really.
And it’s with that that Saw producer Oren Koules confirms that the seventh instalment in the series will be the last. Ever. Ever, ever, ever.
Yep. Koules told USA Today that the very-long-running puke of films (that’s the collective noun for a group of horror films isn’t it?) will come to a close with the release of Saw 3D later this year.
He said: “It’s time to stop. We have told the story we wanted to tell, and this is going to be a great farewell.”
Now think of some of the nasty things you’ve seen in the series thus far. Think about how pale and vomitous people went at the mention of Human Centipede. The stakes have been upped and the last Saw is really going to have to pull out all the stops to make this a spectacular farewell.
Well, Koules notes that Saw 3D will feature 11 booby traps. Okay? They were so grim that they needed to be re-cut and re-submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America six times to be brought down from an NC-17 rating to an R.
Zoinks!
“I’m surprised we got it,” he commented. “It’s more violent than any of them. But it’s in 3D, it answers all the questions, it comes full circle. We have the goods on this one.”
October 29th is the date to put in your diary. Buy a sick bucket.
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