Writer-Director Marcus Dunstan on "torture-porn," censorship, and his new film Saw VI

Reason.tv's Ted Balaker sat down with filmmaker Marcus Dunstan who, along with his writing partner Patrick Melton, wrote the last three Saw films, including Saw VI, which hits theaters October 23. This summer Dunstan made his directorial debut with The Collector, which he and Melton also wrote. (Disclosure: Balaker's wife was a producer on The Collector.)

In this eight-minute interview, Dunstan and Balaker discuss Saw VI, censorship, red band trailers (which cannot be shown on television), how new media outlets like Ain't It Cool News are challenging traditional tastemakers, and whether calling a film "torture-porn" is actually a compliment.

Reason.tv's Marcus Dunstan interview was produced by Ted Balaker. Director of Photography: Alex Manning; Set Designer: Hawk Jensen; Editor: Zach Weissmueller; Associate Producer: Paul Detrick.

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• saw
• saw vi
• saw 6
• horror film
• censorship
• torture porn
• jigsaw
• Marcus Dunstan
• Patrick Melton

[airborne373]

Violence against people - no problem.

Violence an animal - all hell breaks lose.

What's wrong with this?

[032125]

Why should I care about this? Why does Reason care about this?

[mmeshneck666]

If you want to see a tribute to torture porn, write :

DESPERA - Chroniques de la Douleur

[gypsy42330]

saw 6 in French makes "saucisse" meaning saussage lol

[HumanLampshades]

@airborne373 Let me explain this for the retards. See, little piggy "Babe" hasn't done ANYTHING wrong to anyone, unfortunately for it, it's gonna be torture and kill in a slaugtherhouse, completely innocent and helpless, it doesn't know why it's there and why it's kill...

A human piece of shit is always aware of his situation and can "deal" with it, a human piece of shit is probably not innocent, he's one among billions, why in the hell should the death of unsympathic shit be sad to me?

[FreeSpiritRaziel]

Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton are geniuses. Saw is like a videogame. It is fiction. The reality is much more regrettable. Pray and march to lunch at KFC :P

[gbrycki]

The Saw movies are actually scripted? Huh. Go figure.

[stefminus]

this is dumb. i have never watched these movies and never will. it isn't a coincidence that when the government starts torturing people as a matter of policy, that movies about it start appearing. it's like in the 80's when the drug war/war on crime totalitarianism kicked into gear, COPS became a big thing on saturday nights. pretty soon there will be tv shows about bankers and the Civilian Corps that the military wants for the domestic homefront.

[zetsway5000]

Isn't this the same guy that puts health care "reform" propaganda in his movies?

[Fugaboo06]

I have found a couple diffrent sites for watching saw vi and other shows online my favorite one is theonlinecinema. net/saw-vi, if this one doesnt work for you, just PM and i'll hook you up with the links to others :)

[lzbobo128]

society as "We the People", is allow him to make these movies, i dont know what YOU would consider moral obligations, i see my obligations as an American to speak my mind in whatever manner i want, and i want to see people do the same, even if i disagree what is being shown in the movie or whatever it is i disagree with

[truthsabre7]

The real problem is that people are willing to pay for this junk.