Reason.tv: Writer-Director Marcus Dunstan on “Torture Porn,” Censorship, and His New Film Saw VI

October 22, 2009

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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Comments

|10.22.09 @ 3:27PM|#

I thought "Red Band" trailers could be shown in theaters, but only before "R" or "NC-17" movies.

|10.22.09 @ 3:37PM|#

Red band trailers CAN be shown in theaters. However, they rarely are because they can only be shown before R- or NC-17 rated films. I saw one recently on the Art House circuit. The big chains almost never show them.

Baslim|10.22.09 @ 5:09PM|#

I actaully saw a red band trailer before the movie Election, at a big chain theaters, but that was the only time I've every seen one.

|10.22.09 @ 7:10PM|#

Torture Porn? Nah, that is what Nutrasweet does.

Some dude|10.22.09 @ 8:41PM|#

Why is "torture porn" in quotation marks? It isn't torture porn?

Stormy Dragon|10.23.09 @ 12:55AM|#

While it certainly be legal to make movies like the Saw franchise, if you are a fan of such movies there's something seriously wrong with you.

|10.25.09 @ 12:08PM|#

Oh, man, he hints it's about health-care reform. That's torture.