10 Horror Movies Audiences Couldn't Handle

Saw III: the last credible movie in the franchise’s original run, before the plots turned to flashback exposition of the previous films’ events and ever-more ridiculous reveals.

This threequel calls up Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) to the grinder, forced into a warehouse rat run of tricks, traps, and tests that challenge his capacity for forgiveness, following his inability to recover from his son being killed in a hit-and-run incident. Unfortunately, Jeff's success in this area will determine his and his remaining family's fate, and Jeff is not a forgiving guy. Meanwhile, in the background, a dying John Kramer is locked in a quiet battle of wits against his rogue apprentice Amanda (Smith), who has taken to sabotaging traps so Kramer’s victims have no chance of survival.

The Saw films have always been a tough watch, but English audiences struggled with this one. The East Anglian Ambulance Trust reported an unusual spate of emergency calls to cinemas on the night of III’s release, treating people overcome by shock and fright. Five people needed ambulance assistance, one was taken to the hospital, and the Trust’s spokesperson released a statement saying that they hadn’t seen anything like this in nearly two decades working with the ambulance services.