Saw 3D TV Spot Too Sharp for UK Ten-Year-Old

Steve Barton |

Jan 12, 2011

What is this world coming to? So get this … a TV spot for Saw 3D has been banned in the UK because a ten-year-old kid complained to his parents that it was “distressing”. That’s right, distressing!

The news comes straight from the BBC:

A TV trailer advertising the film Saw 3D has been banned after a 10-year-old complained that it was “distressing” and “inappropriately scheduled”.

It began with a screaming man reaching towards the screen with a bloodied hand and featured images of saw blades. The unnamed child saw the advert at 2029 in a break during The Gadget Show on Channel Five.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was “likely to cause distress to young children”. Advertising services organisation Clearcast had originally cleared the advert to be shown after 1930. It said that anyone watching TV later than that would know that it was for a film trailer and clearly based in fantasy. But the ASA upheld the child’s complaint.

It said images in the advert which depicted people in a cinema “linked the scenes from the film with a recognisably real situation”. These include scenes which showed cinema-goers “suddenly trapped by metal restraints and where the figure reached out and pulled a cinema-goer back towards the screen”, the ASA said.

“We considered it was therefore likely to cause distress to young children who might not make a clear distinction between the scenes from the film and the scenes in the cinema.” It said a post-1930 restriction was “not sufficient” and ruled the advert must not be be broadcast again in its current form before 2100.

So we ask you … distressed child or parents looking to make a quick buck by eventually suing? We’re leaning toward the latter.

Synopsis:
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror…

The first theatrical feature to be shot exclusively on the cutting-edge SI-3D digital camera system, Saw 3D brings the horrifying games of Jigsaw to life like never before.

Saw 3D – Official Trailer
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Saw 3D TV Spot Too Sharp for UK Ten Year Old