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Sex & Nudity

There is some nudity non sexual

Violence & Gore

Very violent / bloody scenes almost from the begining.

-Several people are shot with a shotgun. There is lots of blood spray and splatter.

-A girl apears to be attacked the attacker slices and slashes with graphic results .

-There are disturbing flashbacks of a child getting tortured . She is beaten and force fed .

-We see a deformed naked woman several times throughout the course of the film.

-A woman's face and skull are crushed repeatedly off screen with the after effects shown briefly in a graphic shot.

-A girl's arms are cut open. Her head is smashed against a wall.

-A women gets her throat cut with a fairly bloody scene

-A woman had a giant metal contraption stapled into her skull and her genital area. The staples are pulled out of her skull and the metal contraption is pulled off. We see skin get peeled off.

-A woman tries to cut off her hands. She cuts extremely deep into her wrists and there is lots of blood and gore. She then slams her head on the wall

-A woman is shot in the forehead. Lots of resulting blood.

-A girl is tortured. We see her get beaten relentlessly. She is force fed and endlessly beaten quite violently.

-It is shown quite graphically that someone is skinned alive

-A woman shoots herself in the head.

Profanity

None.

None.

Plenty of violence This film includes graphic violence that is on an emotional level unlike many other horror movies. On top of this, there is a lot of intense thematic material

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MPAA:
Rated R for disturbing/severe aberrant behavior involving strong bloody violence, torture, child abuse and some nudity.
Certification:
France:-16 (re-rating on appeal) (with warning) / France:-18 (original rating) / Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) / Finland:K-18 (self applied) / Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (uncut) / UK:18 / Canada:18+ (Quebec) / Canada:R (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) / Australia:R / USA:R (edited version) / Netherlands:16 / USA:Unrated (uncut) / Italy:VM18 / South Korea:18 / New Zealand:R18 / Portugal:M/18

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