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Spain Slaps Saw VI with X Rating
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Horror, Sequels, Distribution
Well, they don’t call it torture porn for nothing.
Although previous installments of Saw have done well in Spain, the franchise’s sixth installment will be facing a large hurdle. The Spanish Culture Ministry’s Film Institute, the country’s equivalent to the MPAA, has just given Saw VI an X rating.
The label - the first one Spain’s ever stamped on a movie for violence - limits the number of theaters the film can be shown in to eight. (Buenavista had hoped to distribute 300 copies of the sequel.) Previous Saw entries were simply considered “not under 18.”
Buenavista has filed an appeal on the decision.
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| Hollywood Reporter
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