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(2008)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing/severe aberrant behavior involving strong bloody violence, torture, child abuse and some nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • This movie contains no sexual content, but it does contain female nudity.
  • A girl kisses another girl very briefly. Does not go beyond that.
  • A tortured woman is stripped of her shirt, baring her breasts.
  • A disfigured naked woman is shown several times during the film; breasts are visible. Crotch briefly as well.

Violence & Gore

  • A little girl shows another girl her bleeding arms.
  • A girl is stabbed twice in the thigh with a short, blunt object. Her arms are also clawed at, leaving shallow but bloody cuts.
  • In brief flashbacks, a young girl is reprimanded and smacked when she spits out food.
  • We see a slightly disfigured woman for some time.
  • A woman has a giant metal contraption nailed into her head, it is pulled off resulting in some bleeding.
  • A woman tries to kill herself by cutting her arms, she briefly cuts her wrists but not deep. Blood is briefly shown.
  • A woman is shot in the forehead. A bloody entry wound is seen for two seconds.
  • A woman is seen being punched several or more times in the face and a few times in the stomach. Most of it is shown from a slight distance.

Profanity

  • Some minor profane language.
  • 1 brief instance of 'slut'.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are briefly seen drinking wine at a gathering.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A couple scenes include feeding of what appears to be green soup where the person gags it out.
  • The second half of the film (roughly forty minutes) is intense and shocking.
  • A woman slitting her wrist in close up with a huge knife.
  • Very emotional atmosphere
  • This movie overall is disturbing, grimy, unsettling and sad.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman's throat is slit by her own self. Not too much graphic detail, but still bloody. Her friend runs up behind to catch her body as she falls to the floor.
  • A young woman is brutally stabbed. While we do not see the act onscreen there are many shots of the aftermath.
  • A woman shoots a family.
  • Four people are swiftly killed with a shotgun blast to the chest (although one is merely unconscious). Blood splatters around them.
  • A woman is shown partly unconscious with her whole body mutilated.
  • A woman is seen wincing for several seconds, it is implied that her backside is being cut. It is revealed in a later scene that she has been skinned alive, and her state is shown in graphic detail throughout the final scenes of the film.
  • A woman shoots herself through the mouth offscreen. The scene cuts before any violence is shown.
  • A young woman is beat up throughout most of the second half.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A ghoul attacks a woman on several different occasions. It claws at her and chases her.
  • There scene where Anna finds the martyred woman in the basement is extremely hard to watch and depressing.

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