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(2009)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, disturbing images, language and brief sexuality
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A young man and woman can hear a couple in the next room having sex (sexual moans and noises are heard.) They have a giggle about it. We then see the couple in the next room, a brief sex scene in which a man thrusts slowly on top of a woman, there is no visible nudity besides their shoulders and his back, as the scene takes place beneath a sleeping bag
  • A young man makes a young woman strip naked to check if she is 'infected', we see her pulling down her pants etc. but we don't see any nudity.

Violence & Gore

Profanity

  • Profanity count: 1 - son of b, 2 - hell, 8 - sh*t, 1 - holy sh*t, 1 - a*hole, 1 - *ss, 7 - Jesus Christ, 4 - Jesus, 10 - F, 1 - god dammit.
  • 'Fuck' is said many times, also 'shit, hell, damn, ass, dick, piss, bitch.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man who is about to have his arm cut off is injected with morphine to help take the edge off the pain.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Body count of the dead: 9 people, 1 polar bear and one baby woolly mammoth that's been dead over 20,000 years according to the movie.
  • There are several disturbing scenes featuring the parasites and the victim's different reactions to them. The gory parts are very realistic and can be unsettling.

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Violence & Gore

  • A bug crawls out of a hole in a woman's forehead. A bloody dead dog is seen on the ground. Several people throw up. A woman shoots two men. A man scratches a bloody bug bite on his arm. A man's urine stream is bloody. A bug crawls out of a woman's eye and goes back inside. A man cuts into a festering wound on his arm and a bug is seen. One of the actors wants to get his arm cut off. The scene is quite intense and rich in detail. A skeleton is seen. A body is seen covered with bugs. We see a man (who is hanging onto a helicopter) fall down and hit the ground. (he has some blood on his mouth afterward). A bug is seen crawling into a cut. A man is shot and blood squirts out of his neck wound. A helicopter crashes and explodes.

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