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Yes, you read the title correctly. Saw VI, the most recent in a series of films based around gratuitous violence, has managed to receive the ever-so-tantalizing ‘X’ rating generally saved for films within the ‘adult’ genre.

So how did Saw VI find itself being stuck with a rating that will make it slightly taboo and largely limited in viewability? Well, apparently the Spanish Culture Ministry’s Film Institute thinks the amount of violence that characterized the previous Saw films has gotten out of hand.

The first Saw films did well in Spain, but giving the reason of “extreme violence” as grounds for an X rating, Saw VI will only be released in eight theaters in Spain– all of which have been, until now, the theaters to show pornographic films. Needless to say, that locale alone might serve as a deterrent for much of the Saw franchise’s former audience.

The small amount of theaters where the film can be released comes as a crushing blow to Buenavista, which had planned on a release of 300 copies of Saw VI in Spain, and a continuance of the success seen by the first five Saw films.

Buenavista has already appealed the rating, but it is unlikely that the decision will be overturned before the film’s release.