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Fri 11 Nov 2006UK audiences really swoon over Saw 3Saw 3 is top of the box office in the UK and the US, but in England, the East Anglian Ambulance Trust has issued a warning that the movie's torture scenes are so gruesome that they have caused viewers to pass out.The trust says it received emergency calls to treat people watching the film at cinemas in Stevenage, Peterborough and Cambridge last weekend. Five required ambulance assistance and one had to be taken to hospital after fainting with fright. A spokesman for the trust said: "People need to be aware this film is not for the squeamish or faint-hearted. As well as collapses, we have had reports of people running screaming from the cinemas."