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Sex & Nudity

  • A young boy masturbates another young boy and is implied to perform oral sex on him. A young girl watches.
  • A young man and an older man meet in a motel room to have sex. The older man rubs and fondles the young man before removing his pants. Nothing explicit is shown. The older man performs oral sex on the younger man. The younger man's face and the older man's hands are the only things visible during this scene. After some time the younger man climaxes in the older man's mouth. Sucking, gargling and choking sounds are heard in the background during the scene.
  • A boy watches his mother and her lover have sex, and talks about how he had an orgasm for the first time while watching them. There are shot of the boy's face
  • A teenage boy is raped by an older man(no nudity).
  • A teenage boy and an older man have sex. They kiss passionately and strip nude (brief rear nudity).

Violence & Gore

  • A woman shows a teenage boy a dead cow. She encourages him to put his hand inside its genitals.
  • A young boy puts fireworks in another boy's mouth, and then he proceeds to light them. They shoot up in the air, and the older boy's mouth is then seen bloody and cut up.
  • Some bits of horror movies are shown being watched by characters. A zombie movie is seen on television, and a bit where a man is violently ripped apart by zombies. Blood and gore is shown, although the film is in black & white. Also, a female character is shown watching the same movie, and a bit is shown where a zombie eats a large insect.
  • A young boy in a movie theater watches a film where we see a girl's head being chopped off. Blood briefly squirts from the neck stump before the camera cuts away.

Profanity

  • There is 25 uses of fuck, 12 uses of shit, 3 uses of damn (once as goddamn), 3 uses of ass, 14 uses of slut (all in one scene), 2 uses each of cock and dick, and 1 use each of prick, retard, and faggot.
  • Fuck is used several times throughout the film, as well as others like shit, bitch, ass, cock, faggot, etc.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Many scenes show character smoking and drinking. Teenagers are frequently shown smoking and drinking. A teenage character often abuses drugs and is seen taking LSD and smoking marijuana. A man snorts cocaine in one scene and forces a teenage boy to do the same.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The fireworks scene may be uncomfortable to watch.
  • The rape and subsequent beating may be uncomfortable to watch.
  • Themes of child molestation and sexual abuse.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man makes two eight year old boys perform a multitude of sexual acts, including fisting him. Most of this is related through narration, but there are intermittent shots only showing above the waist. Nothing sexual is shown onscreen between the two boys.
  • Neil is violently raped by a man. He forces Neil to do drugs before forcing Neil to perform oral sex. Neil tries to get away but the man follows him into the bathroom puts him in the shower where he rapes Neil. The man is heard finishing. The scene goes on for 2 or so minutes.

Violence & Gore

  • A man shoves a young man to a bed and makes him do oral sex after he slaps him several times, the act extends some time as the man is insulting the young man verbally using crude terms, he spits on him and shoves him violently to the bed. Later that scene, the man hits the young man in the head with a rod, shoves him into the bathtub, and grabs both of his legs and rapes him violently from behind. The man picks up a bottle of shampoo and starts hitting the young man on the head with it as he rapes him (the water in the bathtub becomes becomes bloody).

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