The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for sadistic violence and torture, including terror and graphic descriptions
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A killer tells a victim "I'm gonna rape you".
  • Crime scene shots of nude women.
  • A woman's nude corpse is seen.
  • It is mentioned that a woman was genitally electrocuted.

Violence & Gore

  • A man is showing sawing off a woman's head (after she is dead), then picking it up by the hair.
  • A man breaks into a home and kills a man, then kidnaps his girlfriend. We then see her tied up in painful positions (arms wrenched behind back, etc.) crying and begging to be let go. She is hung up in chains, gagged, tortured and is coerced into slitting the throat of another abducted/tortured girl.
  • A man ties a woman up and stabs her in the neck very slowly with two needle-like weapons attached to his fingers. The woman's face is very close to the camera and we can see her in agony, choking to death on her own blood behind the clear tape covering the lower half of her face. Graphic and intense.
  • Many people describe brutal killing. In gruesome detail, including animal feces being stuck in mouths, intestines being pulled out, genitals being removed or electrocuted, being burned alive, teeth being removed by pliers, women being raped post-mortem. Sometimes there are brief flashes of photos accompanying them.
  • A lot of emotional turmoil is expressed.
  • A character hyperventilates while screaming at the same time.
  • A man has murdered and buried dozens of corpses in his backyard, including a baby.

Profanity

  • One use of the word "Fuck" and "fucking".
  • One use of the word "Bastard"
  • One use of the word "Bitch"
  • Two uses of "shit".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are scenes (taped by the killer) that include victims screaming, crying, begging for their life, including not just physical but extreme emotional and verbal abuse --including very intense brain-washing scenes, punctuated with torture--by the killer.
  • Many crime scenes (including remains of corpses) and autopsy documentations are shown. No rape or sexual abuse is shown, but forensic and other experts describe the evidence of it, including genital mutilation.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A man knocks a child unconscious and abducts her.
  • A former abductee kills herself (offscreen).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Scenes of vicious and prolonged torture, including violent abduction). Police photographs of scars, wounds, mutilations are shown. A character's arm ends in a stump beneath the elbow.

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