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The Holy Mountain (1973)

Parents guide

The Holy Mountain

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Severe
  • Violence & Gore:
    Severe
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Moderate
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Severe

Sex & Nudity

Severe
113 of 145 found this severe
Full-frontal male and female nudity in multiple scenes for extended periods of time. Vulvas and penises are visible.
There is a group of provocatively dressed prostitutes, one of whom is a very young girl.
A sex scene with no nudity.
In a training simulator, many children (mostly boys but at least one girl) are seen briefly running around naked wearing silver hats.
A group of boys are running to a man, nudity is visible from five at least from behind.
An ice sculpture in the shape of a penis is seen.

Violence & Gore

Severe
66 of 80 found this severe
During a recreation of the conquest of Mexico, real toads and horned lizards are covered in blood and subsequently blown up with small explosives on a set.
Corpses of both animals and people are repetitively used as symbolic imagery throughout.
Many cadavers are shown.
A man defecates and then turns the feces to gold.
An old man gives a small girl his eye by taking it out of his eye socket. Graphic.
A man cuts his fingers off.
Goat decapitation offscreen, but the beheaded corpse is shown afterward.
Bloody executions by guns.
A riot scene leading to a graphic massacre, blood is shown to be different colors at times, and the food is used to represent organs being torn or cut out.

Profanity

Mild
50 of 81 found this mild
A few uses of "shit" and "damn." And one use of "fuck."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Moderate
44 of 77 found this moderate
This film is essentially designed for drug use, the director said one of the reasons he created the film was to take drugs and watch.
Many sequences where characters use drugs.
A main character gets drunk.
Characters share a joint.
Some smoking.
A very intoxicated and insane man stuffs a child's mouth full of drugs (different colored pills). He also positively talks about them, implying that drugs are a good thing.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe
56 of 84 found this severe
This is arguably the weirdest film to ever exist , almost every scene is incomprehensible regardless the intense nudity.
The film contains various religious imagery and metaphorical representations of Christianity. For example, one of the main characters, known as Thief, bears a resemblance to Jesus Christ, as often depicted. As a result, he is used as a model for wax effigies for sale. He is later seen to consume the face of one of his effigies before sending it to the sky with balloons.
There are religious symbols and references, which are shown in an abstract and sometimes absurd manner.
Some of the demonic imagery can be frightening, although the musical score tones down the horror-like atmosphere. There is graphic violence and it is all quite surreal and unsettling.
Several creepy and downright insane scenes are shown at the end of the movie. Quite intense.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 18
  • Australia
    • Roriginal rating
    • MA15+2007, re-rating
  • Brazil
    • 18
  • Canada
    • 18A
    • 13+Québec
  • France
    • 16
  • Germany
    • 18
  • Hong Kong
    • III
  • India
    • Not Rated
  • Indonesia
    • 21
  • Ireland
    • 182020
  • Italy
    • VM18original rating
    • VM142001
  • Japan
    • R-15
    • R15+2010
  • Mexico
    • C
  • Netherlands
    • 18
  • New Zealand
    • R18
  • Norway
    • 15VOD
  • Peru
    • 18
  • Poland
    • 18
  • Saudi Arabia
    • Not Rated
  • Singapore
    • R21
  • South Korea
    • 18
  • Spain
    • 18
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • United Kingdom
    • Xcut
    • 181999, uncut
  • United States
    • TV-14
    • TV-14DLSV
    • 16+DLSV, suggestion, new rating, Crude Humor
    • Rcertificate #24011
  • Ukraine
    • 18
  • United Arab Emirates
    • Not Rated
  • West Germany
    • 18

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