How Saw X Got The Cops Called On The Movie Editor

While editing audio for the eyeball trap scene, neighbors of Steve Forner — presumably unaware of what he did for a living — became concerned that the «mild-mannered» artist was torturing someone in his home. As a home video camera reportedly captured, LAPD officers responded to the disturbance call and knocked on his door, at which point a startled Forner answered, likely hoping that his excuse of working on a movie wasn’t one that real serial killers employ. 

According to Forner, the cops told him that the neighbors had rang them up accusing him of violently torturing a real person. After explaining that he was simply cutting together a scene for a horror film, Forner even invited the officers in to watch the sequence for themselves. The realization was enough to send the cops into a fit of laughter, before they politely declined the invitation and left Forner to his bloody workload. Though Forner was likely at least a bit shaken, the ordeal seems to greatly amuse Greutert, who served as the lead editor on the first «Saw» film back in 2004.

«I can only imagine the look on his face when he realized what was happening,» he marveled to NME.

In a morbid sort of way, it’s almost impressive that «Saw X» was able to elicit such a strong reaction through its audio alone — though Jigsaw’s antics have historically proven to impact audiences in such a way, more than you might expect.