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Sex & Nudity

One very brief scene of woman taking off top in non-sexual context; the side of one of her breasts is visible for a few seconds.

a woman is raped by a tree her breast is briefly seen, along with a tree branch squeezing it. Moaning can also be heard, along with the branch possibly very briefly thrusting.

Violence & Gore

Zombies attacking people, people "killing" zombies by removing heads.

There is a scene where a woman throws a man against a bookcase.

A woman stabs another woman in the ankle with a pencil, you can see blood ooze, and crunching of her bone.

A man forces a woman into a cellar and hits her in the face with the handle of an axe.

A woman falls into a lit fireplace and her face is smoldering and bleeding when she gets out.

A woman bites off her own hand, you see blood gush while she is chewing and you here crunching of the bone, there are no cutaways you see the entire thing, whenshe is finished she screams in pain and blood squirts and spews from the bloody stump.

A man stabs a woman with some sort of voodoo knife, we see blood pour out the head of the knife.

A man gets thrown into another bookcase.

A man gouges the eyes out of a zombie, you see bright viscous red blood flowing out of his eye sockets.

A man chops up a woman with an axe, you see only blood splash off the axe each time he draws back and a little squirting of blood, you then see the womans chopped up body flailing around.

A man comes from outside bleeding and bruised severely.

A man hits a woman several times.

A man hits a woman in the head and face multiple times.

A woman grabs a man's leg and scratches it untill we see bone, blood is pouring out of the wound while shes doing it.

A woman jumps into the air and a man whacks her head off with a shovel, you see the body on top of the man still grabbing at him and blood spews and sprays in his face, while the blood- splattered head comes alive.

A pipe breaks open and blood flows out of it into a man's face.

A man shoots a woman in the head and neck, we see blood spurt.

A man grabs another man's leg and begins to bite into it, we see blood start to trickle out of the wound.

A woman hits a man in the back with the blunt side of a fire poker.

A woman and man start to decompose fiercely.

Giant arms explode out of a man and woman we see blood spray, guts fly out and a decomposing head splatters on the floor spraying blood and brains everywhere.

Profanity

Some strong language, but it is brief and infrequent.

Possible smoking or references to liquor.

Lots of scenes; the whole movie is meant to be frightening. The extreme gore may also be intense for a lot of viewers. The tree-rape scene may be intense for some. The demon-possessed people look frightening, complete with pale skin, white eyes, and blood pouring out of their mouths.

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MPAA:
Rated NC-17 for substantial graphic horror violence and gore.
Certification:
Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) / Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1990) / Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2002) / USA:Not Rated (DVD rating) / Malaysia:(Banned) / Germany:16 (heavily cut) / Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) (uncut) (2001) / UK:18 (re-rating: 1990) (cut) (re-rating: 2001) (uncut) / UK:(Banned) (1984-1990) / UK:X (original rating: 1982) (cut) / USA:R (edited UMD version) / Netherlands:16 / Germany:18 (re-rating) (1995) (court decision) (cut) / Argentina:16 / Canada:14A (rated 2006) / USA:X (original rating) / Chile:14 (2006 DVD Rating) / South Korea:18 / West Germany:(Banned) (1984) (uncut) / Sweden:(Banned) (1988) / Italy:VM14 / Canada:18A (Ontario) (Re-rated 2008) / Italy:VM18 (original rating) / Australia:R / Canada:13+ (Québec) / France:-12 / Hong Kong:III / Iceland:(Banned) / Ireland:(Banned) (original rating) / Ireland:18 (re-rating) / Japan:R-15 / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:15 (DVD rating) (2004) / Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) / Portugal:M/18 (original rating) / Singapore:(Banned) / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 (re-rating) (1997) / USA:NC-17 (rated 1994) / Germany:BPjM Restricted

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