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(1989)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A young boy walks in on his mother and father making out on the floor. They are both in their underwear. They are all sweaty and appear to have smeared blood around their mouths. The boy later has a flash back to this scene but now he sees his parents stroking and then biting each other as they make out.
  • A young girl sits high in a tree and talks to a boy below. He is looking up her skirt but a branch blocks anything from our view.
  • Later, the same young girl is drunk and tells the boy to take off his shirt.

Violence & Gore

  • A man works as a dead body examiner. Dead bodies are shown, but lying on tables. Some are shown in closeup as some are cut open.
  • A man cuts open a dead body. Not shown, but the knife has small blood on it.
  • A lot of bloody images, some of them are somewhat graphic. A few people are stabbed (with bloody results).

Profanity

  • Like 1 or 2 swear words, hardly any in this movie.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The parents drink red wine with several meals.
  • The parents play cards with neighbors. The mother says "this is your fault, your tea is making me giddy". The neighbor says it is Long Island Iced Tea. The all laugh and the pitcher of tea is spilled.
  • A young girl steals wine from the boy's parents' cellar. They get drunk sitting in a deep freezer.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A young boy has a few severe nightmares though out the movie, he dreams about jumping into his bed but jumps into a river of blood instead. In another dream he sees a twitching human arm sticking out of the sink, and blood running out of the refrigurator.
  • Not a lot of violence, but disturbing throughout in terms of tone.
  • The boy goes down to the basement and sees a leg on a hook.

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Violence & Gore

  • A boy hits his dad with a bat. He stabs him and dies.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A boy's grandparents put a plate of sandwich on the beside table. It is revealed to be human meat in the sandwich.
  • The boy returns to the basement with a school social worker. The leg is gone but they find a whole dead body. There is a chase and struggle by someone with a knife (we can't see who has the knife). The counselor is killed.
  • The father tries to force the boy to eat some meat, the boy stabs the father. The father picks up the boy by the head and the mother stabs the father. There is a struggle and the mother falls on the knife and is killed. The father chases the boy to the cellar. A wine rack falls on the father and he is killed.

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