---
name: "Kevin Greutert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kevin-greutert"
fi1m_id: "kevin-greutert"
imdb_id: "nm0340436"
tmdb_id: 2150
wikidata_id: "Q926978"
roles: ["Assistant editor","Director"]
born: "31 March 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-24T10:03:21.914454+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kevin Greutert

## Identity

Kevin Greutert

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kevin-greutert
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kevin-greutert
- **IMDb ID:** nm0340436
- **TMDB ID:** 2150
- **Wikidata ID:** Q926978
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Greutert, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q926978, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340436/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2150

Assistant editor and director. Born 31 March 1965 in Pasadena, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant editor, Director
- **Born:** 31 March 1965, Pasadena, California, USA
- **Active:** 1997–present
- **Also known as:** K. Greutert, K Greutert, Greutert, 凱文格勞特
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 directing, 5 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (2), 2000s 83 (1), 2020s 62 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 66 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Mystery 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,897m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Greutert, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q926978, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340436/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2150

## Fi1m on Kevin Greutert

> Kevin Greutert brings an editor's precision to horror and gives Tobin Bell room to be quietly frightening. We value the restraint, though *Saw X* shows that clear cutting cannot compensate for a film that runs too long.

In *Saw X* (2023), a sick man shaves, counts pills and sits with other people who are dying. Kevin Greutert lets these routines occupy time that the series would usually spend on a trap. We were unsettled by Tobin Bell's quiet preparation for death, because Greutert leaves us watching a man get through his day without hurrying towards the machinery. This is where we find him most interesting as a director.

He came to directing through the cutting room, editing *Saw* (2004) and its first four sequels before making his feature debut with *Saw VI* (2009). *Saw 3D* (2010) followed, then work outside the series with *Jessabelle* (2014), *Visions* (2015) and *Jackals* (2017). We would still begin with his handling of *Saw*, where the connection between editing and directing is particularly clear. By *Saw X*, his third film as director in the series, he was also doing the cutting himself.

That experience helps when a face is placed against two glass tubes and a pump in the opening eye trap. Greutert makes the mechanism readable, establishes the rule and avoids the frantic whip-pans of the early sequels. The camera stays put long enough for us to understand what we are dreading. We rate this precision: confusion would offer a welcome distraction, and he declines to provide one.

Bell benefits most from Greutert's willingness to slow things down. His almost courtly stillness gives John Kramer the weariness of someone who has already considered his own death, and Greutert does not interrupt it. Yet the running time stretches revenge into a lecture, and the attention paid to Kramer stops earning its place. Our reservation is not about how long it takes to reach the first trap; it is about how little the extra time adds once the film has established its central character. Consider *Saw X* for Bell, but do not expect a brisk evening.

## Biography

Kevin Greutert is an American film editor and director, best known for his extensive work on the *Saw* film series. He edited the first five entries, beginning with *Saw* (2004), as well as *Jigsaw* (2017), and directed *Saw VI* (2009), *Saw 3D* (2010) and *Saw X* (2023), on which he also served as editor.

Born in Pasadena, California, Greutert graduated from Polytechnic School and earned a B.A. in Cinema Production from the University of Southern California. He began his career in editorial on films including *Titanic* (1997) and *Armageddon* (1998). His other directorial credits include *Jessabelle* (2014), *Visions* (2015) and *Jackals* (2017). He is married to actress Elizabeth Rowin.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Directed (1)

- *Saw X* (2023), Fi1m 64, Editor, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/saw-x.md)

### Crew (5) — the average rests on these

- *Barbarian* (2022), Fi1m 77, Creative Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/barbarian.md)
- *Chaos Walking* (2021), Fi1m 44, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/chaos-walking.md)
- *Donnie Darko* (2001), Fi1m 83, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/donnie-darko.md)
- *Armageddon* (1998), Fi1m 64, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md)
- *Titanic* (1997), Fi1m 84, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Psycho Killer* (2026), Additional Editor
- *#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Immaculate* (2024), Creative Consultant — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/immaculate.md)
- *Divinity* (2023), Editor
- *Saw X* (2023), Director, Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/saw-x.md)
- *Cobweb* (2023), Editor
- *Barbarian* (2022), Creative Consultant — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/barbarian.md)
- *Umma* (2022), Editor
- *Spiral: From the Book of Saw* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Chaos Walking* (2021), Additional Editor — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/chaos-walking.md)
- *Ghosts of War* (2020), Additional Editor
- *His House* (2020), Creative Consultant — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/his-house.md)
- *Jigsaw* (2017), Editor
- *Leatherface* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Jackals* (2017), Director, Editor
- *Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw* (2015), Thanks
- *Visions* (2015), Editor, Director
- *Jessabelle* (2014), Director, Editor
- *Mercy* (2014), Additional Editor
- *Unfriended* (2014), Thanks
- *The Collection* (2012), Editor
- *Saw 3D* (2010), Director
- *Saw VI* (2009), Director
- *Repo! The Genetic Opera* (2008), Thanks
- *Saw V* (2008), Editor
- *The Strangers* (2008), Editor
- *Saw IV* (2007), Editor
- *The Thirst* (2007), Editor
- *Room 6* (2006), Editor
- *Saw III* (2006), Editor
- *Journey to the End of the Night* (2006), Editor
- *House of the Dead 2* (2006), Opening Title Sequence
- *Saw II* (2005), Editor
- *Supercross* (2005), First Assistant Editor
- *Saw* (2004), Editor
- *Cruel Intentions 3* (2004), Assistant Editor
- *George of the Jungle 2* (2003), as Tookie (voice) · Associate Editor
- *Frank McKlusky, C.I.* (2002), Associate Editor
- *Corky Romano* (2001), First Assistant Editor
- *Donnie Darko* (2001), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/donnie-darko.md)
- *Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire* (2000), Associate Editor
- *Stepsister from Planet Weird* (2000), Assistant Editor
- *Inspector Gadget* (1999), First Assistant Editor
- *Blindness* (1998), Assistant Editor
- *Armageddon* (1998), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md)
- *Titanic* (1997), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/titanic.md)
- *Red Corner* (1997), Assistant Editor
- *Jungle 2 Jungle* (1997), Assistant Editor
- *Chameleon* (1996), Assistant Editor
- *Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco* (1996), Assistant Editor
- *The Shot* (1996), as Editor
- *Excessive Force II: Force on Force* (1995), Assistant Editor
- *The Visual Bible: Acts* (1994), Assistant Editor
- *Mary Silliman's War* (1994), Assistant Editor

## Gallery

- ![Kevin Greutert](https://film.one/media/person/15798/gallery-ed779311d94c.jpg) Kevin Greutert — Kevin_Greutert_and_Elizabeth_Rowin_at_Comic_Con_2010.jpg: Cathy Greutert
derivative work: MikeAllen (talk) 22:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Kevin_Greutert_at_Comic_Con.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kevin Greutert](https://film.one/media/person/15798/gallery-d48770c67557.jpg) Kevin Greutert — Image via TMDB

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