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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Rated R for strong violence and terror, sexuality, drug use and language.

A girl and a boy kiss repeatedly and passionately on a couch and then run upstairs (sex is implied); we later see the nude girl brushing her hair in front of a mirror (her bare breasts are visible from a distance) and her bare right breast is briefly shown as she is murdered.

A girl is seen changing her shirt from behind (the side of her bare breast is briefly visible).

A girl and a boy kiss, fall onto a couch, and begin making out; the two are later shown in bed, nude, having sex (the scene is shown from behind; however, we do see the boy thrusting on top of the girl and hear them both moaning pleasurably), and afterwards, the girl's bare left breast is visible for a few moments; she later exposes her bare breasts (which we briefly see) in front of a man that she believes is the boy and then gets out of bed to speak on the telephone, where the man strangles her (her bare breasts are shown for most of this scene).

A nude girl's corpse is discovered, and her bare right breast is slightly visible (the scene is very dark and hazy).

Also, a woman undresses while talking on the phone and walks around her garden, she still has her underwear on.

Violence & Gore

A girl is stabbed repeatedly in various areas of her body with a kitchen knife (we only see the knife coming up and down and then see blood on the girl's chest as well as on the blade of the knife).

A man climbs on top of a car and grabs a woman by the hair through an open window as she is driving; she swerves off the road and escapes to the other side of the car, and the man uses his hand to break the window behind her; the woman gets out of the car, unharmed, and the man jumps in, driving away.

A man's bloody corpse is shown on the side of a road.

A man strangles a dog to death (we only see the dog's legs starting to limp as he is held in the air and hear whimpering).

A man grabs a girl from behind in a car and begins strangling her; they struggle for several seconds until the man slits the girl's throat with a kitchen knife (no blood is shown; the throat-slitting is extremely brief).

A man jumps out of a closet and throws a boy against a door; the two struggle until the man impales the boy through the stomach with a kitchen knife, leaving him to dangle there (we only see him raise the knife, hear a crunch, and see the boy's legs starting to limp; the knife is then shown in the boy's stomach from the side; no blood is evident).

A man strangles a girl to death with a telephone cord; she struggles and gags for several seconds until she dies.

A girl discovers another girl's corpse with a slightly bloody slit throat lying on a bed, a boy's bloody corpse with a knife in his chest hanging in a doorway, and a third girl's corpse in a closet. The girl is then stabbed in the shoulder from behind by a man with a kitchen knife (we later see the bloody wound) and falls over a balcony railing, landing roughly on a staircase below; the girl, now limping, locks herself in a kitchen and tries to escape through a door leading outside, which has been held shut with a rake; the man breaks through the kitchen door with his hand and the girl breaks through the other door's glass pane, escaping (her hand is later shown with blood on it). The girl is chased across the street and throws a potted plant at a boy's window to get his attention to let her in; once inside, the man attacks her again from behind a couch, attempting to stab her with his knife, but misses and hits the couch instead; the girl then stabs the man in the neck with a knitting needle (we see the needle in his neck as he pulls it out and apparently dies, and then see a little blood on the tip of the needle, but the scene is dark and at night, so it may go unnoticed).

The man attacks the girl once again and she locks herself in a closet as he breaks through its doors with his knife; the girl stabs him in the eye with a coat hanger, causing him to drop his knife, which she then uses to stab him in the chest (not graphic; no blood is shown).

The girl is attacked by the man for a final time as he attempts to strangle her; they struggle for several seconds until another man enters and shoots the man six times, causing him to fall off of a balcony to his presumed death in the yard below (no blood is evident).

Profanity

Nothing major.

The 's' word is used a few times.

A woman is shown smoking a cigarette.

Two girls share a cigarette as they walk home from school.

Two girls smoke a marijuana joint.

A girl and a boy drink beer in a car and are later shown smoking cigarettes while in bed.

Many frightening/intense scenes

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