Saw 3D is a 2010 3D horror film directed by Kevin Greutert, written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, and starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery and Cary Elwes. It is the seventh and final installment of the Saw film series, and the first and only film in the series to be shot in 3D. The film is also known as, Saw VII 3D and advertised as Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.An eighth installment was planned, but the decrease in the box office performance for Saw VI compared to previous installments led to Saw 3D being the final planned film in the series, and the plot concept for Saw VIII being incorporated into Saw 3D. Saw V director David Hackl was to direct the film, but two weeks before filming Lionsgate announced that Greutert, who directed the sixth film, would direct. Principal photography took place in Toronto, Ontario from February to April 2010 and was shot with the SI-3D digital camera system, as opposed to shooting with traditional cameras and later transferring to 3D in post-production.
Saw 3D was originally scheduled to be released on October 22, 2010, but was pushed back a week to October 29, 2010, in the United States and Canada; it was released a day earlier in the United Kingdom and Australia. The film was initially rated NC-17 (no children 17 and under admitted) by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and had to be edited and re-submitted six times to finally receive an R rating. In Australia, the film received an R18+ rating despite all the previous installments all having an MA15+ for their theatrical release. Upon release, the film received largely negative reviews from critics.
In a flashback sequence following the first Saw film, Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) crawls from the bathroom to find help after sawing off his foot. Along the way, he reaches a steam pipe and uses it to cauterize his ankle stump. The next scene cuts to a crowd of people gathering around a storefront window in an urban shopping area where they watch two men, Ryan (Jon Cor) and Brad (Sebastian Pigott), tied to a worktable. There is a buzz saw in front of each man, and their mutual lover, Dina (Anne Lee Greene), is suspended above a third saw. Realizing her betrayal, they decide to save themselves and allow her to lower onto the saw, killing her.
After witnessing Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) survive the reverse beartrap, Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) goes to Matt Gibson (Chad Donella), an internal affairs detective at Hoffman's precinct. She offers to incriminate Hoffman in exchange for police protection and immunity. Hoffman, meanwhile, continues his work, killing four racist skinheads in a trap at an abandoned junkyard's garage and abducting Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery), a self-help guru who achieved fame and fortune by falsely claiming to have survived a Jigsaw trap. As the police investigate the junkyard and search for Dagen, Hoffman sends videos to Gibson, offering cryptic clues to his location and promising to stop the games if Jill is delivered to him.
Bobby awakens in an abandoned insane asylum and is informed that his wife Joyce (Gina Holden) has also been abducted and will die if he does not reach her in time. Dagen navigates his way through the asylum, finding his publicist Nina (Naomi Snieckus), his lawyer Suzanne (Rebecca Marshall) and his close friend Cale (Dean Armstrong) all in traps. Despite his efforts to save them, all three are killed. The SWAT team manage to discover and raid the asylum, but they cannot reach either of the Dagens and all eight of them are killed by toxic gas.
Meanwhile, Gibson finds Hoffman's command center in the junkyard and discovers he had hacked the police security camera system. An automatic turret gun then activates, killing Gibson and both of his men. Hoffman, posing as one of the corpses from the garage trap, infiltrates police headquarters and kills Dr. Heffner (James Van Patten), Det. Rogers (Laurence Anthony) and four other officers and staff before finally reaching Jill. After a brief scuffle, he ties her up and puts her into the original reverse bear trap that Amanda Young wore and survived, which kills her. After Dagen removes two of his wisdom teeth to retrieve the combination to a locked door, he finally reaches Joyce and is forced to undergo the test he claimed to have survived: drive two hooks through the pectoral muscles in his chest, then hoist himself up on the attached chains to deactivate her trap. He fails, with the hooks ripping through his skin, and watches in horror as a brazen bull metal capsule slams shut around Joyce and she is burned alive within it.
Hoffman destroys his workshop and prepares to leave town, only to be captured by three Pighead-masked figures, the leader revealed as Lawrence Gordon. Flashbacks reveal that John Kramer (Tobin Bell) helped Lawrence recover after he escaped the bathroom, and Lawrence had worked as his accomplice for surgical resources ever since. Tasked by John to watch over Jill, and to take action if anything happened to her, Lawrence shackles Hoffman in the bathroom from the first film. Throwing away the hacksaw he had used to cut off his foot, he leaves Hoffman to die.
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