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(2005)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • In the first half there are topless or half nude women.
  • 5 sex scenes as well as nudity.
  • A mans full butt is shown twice - not sexual, meant for laughs.
  • A woman's bare breasts are briefly visible in a restroom
  • Muffled moaning is heard in a hotel room
  • Three men and two women sit in a spa together they have towels around their waists however
  • as a man enters a room a woman is seen pulling in a shirt and breasts are seen for a split second
  • A man goes into a room in a brothel, nothing else is shown
  • A man has a porn magazine in the background, VERY blurred breasts can be seen if focused on.

Violence & Gore

  • The scenes of bloody violence don't happen until halfway through the film.
  • Very gory, dark, and graphic. Even more so than Roth's previous film Cabin Fever
  • there are 8 scenes of torture
  • A man touches the floor of a restroom; a hand from a neighboring stall grabs his and cuts him with a scalpel.
  • A man with a chainsaw walks toward a man chained in a chair, he slips and falls dropping the chainsaw on his leg; his leg is severed, blood pours, and the man chained to the chair frees himself and shoots the man in the head.
  • A man with a chainsaw approaches a man who is gagged and chained into a chair: the man holds the chainsaw above him and begins to bring it down toward the man, the man chained to the chair vomits, and the man brings the chainsaw down and cuts off two of the other man's fingers (they fall off and blood spurts).
  • A man goes into a room where a woman is screaming and another man uses a torch to burn her face; the man then shoots the man with the torch. The woman's right eye is dangling out of her face; the man cuts the eye off and yellow pus oozes from the wound.
  • A man drills several holes into another man's body (blood pours from each hole).
  • A man collects dead and dismembered bodies, and another man hides under a pile of bodies and parts; a severed hand falls on the floor, the man picks it up and puts it back on the cart, then pulls large pieces off the cart and cuts them into smaller pieces with a large knife.
  • Several children stand in a street blocking a car from passing, one child throws a bottle that hits a man on the head, and other children pound on the car and on the two men inside (a man's head is dented from a blow and blood pools under his head).
  • A man walks through an abandoned plant and stops at a room; he sees another man lying on a table with his chest open and covered with blood and a man with a scalpel standing over him.
  • A man's body lies on a table, he has several wounds, and his mouth is stitched shut.
  • A man approaches a woman strapped to a chair with a large cutting device, and he puts it on her toes; she screams, he squeezes the device, which cuts off her toes. Offscreen.
  • A man hits another man in the head with a hammer.
  • At a police roadblock a man is pulled out of his car and beaten.
  • A man tackles a boy who has stolen his cellphone and holds him around the throat (the boy gags when he is freed).

Profanity

  • People swear in Slovak.
  • There are 69 uses of "fuck", 20 sexual references, 23 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, and 10 religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People take pills.
  • People smoke marijuana together.
  • A man smokes marijuana out of a hookah.
  • People drink alcohol at a bar.
  • People smoke cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The deaths may be intense for some viewers.
  • The scene with the woman getting her face blow-torched and her eye clipped off is hard to watch.
  • The torture scenes may be intense for some viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman commits suicide by jumping in front of a train (blood splatters on a few people) after feeling shocked about her disfigured face.
  • A man with a scalpel approaches another man who is restrained in a chair; he bends down behind the man, the man chained to the chair screams frantically and tries to get up from the chair; it is revealed that his Achilles tendons have been severed, they split and he flops to the floor unable to walk. The man then grabs him by the head and slits his throat offscreen.
  • A man drives into three people on the street, two are thrown onto the windshield and are killed; the third is hit by another car.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Two men are slipped tranquillisers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In the director's cut, it ends on a scene of Paxton kidnapping the Dutch businessman's young daughter.
  • A mutilated woman commits suicide by jumping in-front of a moving train.

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