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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

Note: The number at the beginning of each section refers to how much explicit content of that kind there is in the film on a scale of 1-10. The fraction at the end of the last section is the total sum of the sections over the highest sum possible (50) and is therefore an approximation of about how explicit the film is a whole.

Sex & Nudity: 1

None.

Violence & Gore

Violence & Gore: 10

- A person is chopped in half by several strikes from a large swinging axe, and both of his hands are crushed by a mechanical device. (We see this in great detail, including the victim's guts and both of his crushed hands. The scene is repeated a couple of times through out the movie in a less graphic manner.)

- A person is decapitated, the corpse and head are shown detached in a pool of blood.

- A man has his head encased in a glass box which fills with water. He stabs himself in the throat in order to breathe.

- A corpse is put in a bathtub, where it's attached to electrical wires, we see the corpse thrash and jerk as it's being electrocuted.

- A person dies in an explosion. The aftermath is shown, with the remains of the body such as severed limbs and insides all over the floor.

- A person is crushed by two walls closing on him. One of his arms breaks graphically.

- Several times throughout, the graphic dead corpses from the previous 4 movies are shown in flashbacks, including crushing of heads, bloody shoot-outs and decapitations and the remains of a person whose head was blown off by an explosive collar on their neck.

- In a very disturbing scene, two people place their hands inside a device that cuts it vertically, we see blood, the hands being cut by the saws and the bloody mess inside the device's glass box. In a later scene we see hands of one of them graphically cut in half.

- Other scenes of much milder violence including shoot-outs or hand-to-hand.

*When purchasing or renting this movie you are vieweing the unrated version. Some scenes are much worse than can be described here.

Profanity

Profanity: 7

Regular use of the f-word (around 50), and other profanities.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: 3

-One of the characters is (or was) a heroin user,

-Use of alcohol at different points in the movie

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 9

*Intense scenes which depict sequences of disturbing graphic and often very bloody violence. The film is very VERY disturbing in this manner and usually uses music that affects the situations of violence. *On occasion someone wearing a pigmask will ambush someone and drug them so they can be put into traps, this can make some people jump.

An idea of how accurate the TECE (below) is: 5-10 is a little-kid suitable, G-Rated type of film (i.e. Care Bears, Sleeping Beauty); 10-15 is going to be a little harsher, but not by much (i.e. The Incredibles); 15-20 could be pretty high up there (i.e. Indiana Jones), 20-25 is going to pretty darn adult (i.e. The Dark Knight); 25-30 is going to be a film most likely not suitable for anyone under 17 (i.e. Braveheart); 30-40 is going to be an absolutely, positively adults-only film (i.e. THIS), and 40-50 is going to be hard-R to NC-17 (i.e. Pulp Fiction).

Total Explicit Content Estimation: 31/50.

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MPAA:
Rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, language and brief nudity.
Certification:
USA:R (certificate #44624) / UK:18 / Australia:MA / Singapore:R21 / Ireland:16 / Canada:18A / New Zealand:R18 / Hong Kong:III / France:-16 / Norway:18 / Argentina:16 / Brazil:18 / Belgium:KNT / Portugal:M/18 / Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) / Sweden:15 / South Korea:18 / Japan:R-15 / Australia:R (director's cut) / Australia:R (DVD) / Germany:18 (uncut) (theatrical release) / Netherlands:16 / South Africa:16LV / Ireland:18 (DVD rating) / Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) / Finland:K-18 / Germany:18 (cut) (DVD release) / Germany:Not Rated (SPIO/JK) (uncut) (DVD release) / Germany:Not Rated (SPIO/JK) (unrated version) (uncut) / Austria:16 / Iceland:18

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