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(2015)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for sexual content including dialogue, and some violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a scene where a woman is seen to sit on a clothed man's crotch and rub against it to sexually arouse the man. No nudity.
  • A couple has intercourse doggy style, with the woman's buttock's slightly visible, no other nudity is present. Most of the scene is in the dark.
  • Some dialogue features allusions and detailing of sexual violence or violence during sexual acts.

Violence & Gore

  • A man repeatedly bashes his nose on hard surfaces to induce nosebleeds.
  • Demonstrations of a lack of empathy or appropriate emotional reactions to violent acts.
  • The movie opens with a scene of a woman driving to a field and shooting animals. Very triggering for animal lovers.
  • Real dead rabbits are carried by some characters and tossed in the woods.
  • A woman jumps from a very high distance, we do not see the jump but we see the aftermath and the twitching body with blood while she screams.
  • Some of the stronger scenes involve one where a man's hand is forcibly held inside a toaster as it is being heated up as a punishment; a woman struggling with another woman while holding a knife before stabbing her in the stomach; scenes of the characters being hunted in the forest as they are shot at with tranquilizer darts.

Profanity

  • Some sexual references in an emotionless context.
  • There are 7 uses of the f-word. It is often used as a verb to refer to the sex act.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are shown drinking alcohol and smoking on a few occasions.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A character jumps from a high distance, and there is a long shot of them screaming and crying on the ground as blood pools up around her.
  • Attempted suicide.
  • A woman chokes on an olive while a man sits and watches her, she is all right though the scene. This is played for black humor.
  • After a woman tells a man that she's kicked an animal to death, she imitates the animal's death cries.
  • We see a man who no longer has his lips, we don't see what's below the bandages but a woman relays a story about why he doesn't have them.
  • A man has his hand jammed into a toaster as punishment for masturbation. Short, but pretty intense.

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Violence & Gore

  • A woman tells a man she has kicked his dog to death, we do not see the actual act, but we see the aftermath of the dog's corpse for many seconds where there is a large amount of blood as well as flesh around the stomach. We also see the blood on the woman's shoes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A married couple is bound and the man is convinced to shoot his wife.
  • We see a dead dog lying in a pool of blood. Very disturbing and sad.
  • A man holds a steak knife right to his eye and attempts to gouge them out, we never see him do it, but it can be seen as pretty disturbing.
  • The scene where a woman jumps out a window and yells in pain afterwards is pretty unpleasant.

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