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Sex & Nudity

  • Stranger pulls woman into barn and rapes her. No nudity is seen.
  • Later, Stranger has dinner with the same woman, and it is implied they have sex later in the evening. They are seen in bed together, bare shoulders and back revealed.
  • Stranger attempts to rape another woman, forcefully dragging her into a bedroom, but then collapses on the bed because he's tired. After an argument, the two kiss, and wake up in bed together (bare shoulders seen) the next morning.
  • A few sexual references are made.
  • A woman wears a dress revealing cleavage.
  • Eastwood sits in a bathtub supposedly naked, but nothing is seen.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman in grabbed and dragged into a barn and held down while being raped as she screams "NO'. Another man watched the horrific attack and doesn't help her - he smiles instead.
  • Three men are shot and killed, little blood seen.
  • A man is whipped to death by 3 men. Blood is shown all over his face and body.
  • Three different men are shot in cold-blood.
  • Another man is whipped to death.
  • Outlaws ride in to a town and shoot and kill several people in cold-blood.
  • A man is shot multiple times with some blood pouring out.
  • A man is hung by a whip and killed.
  • A man has his ear blown off, with blood around it.
  • A man has a stick jabbed through his throat, we hear gory sound effects, then briefly see the wound with hardly any blood.
  • A man is shot in the ear, and we see the bloody hole in his ear.

Profanity

  • 4 uses of shit
  • 1 incomplete "What the fuck?"
  • Occasional use of the words "ass", "son of a bitch", and "bastard".
  • "Damn", "God", and "Hell" are uttered as well.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some drinking and cigar smoking.
  • The Stranger smokes a cigar frequently.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Rated R: For Brutal Violence Throughout Including A Rape Sequence, And For Brief Strong Language.
  • The two scenes where the man is being whipped is intense and sadistic.
  • The final 15 minutes is very dark.
  • The implied rape scene is very intense.
  • The whole movie has a mysterious atmosphere accompanied by an eerie score.

Spoilers

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Profanity

  • When Cole Carlin begs The Stranger to stop whipping him to death during the film's climax, the latter says "Fuck you!" to him - hard to hear though due to the screaming and the fire crackling in the background.

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