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Sex & Nudity

  • A quick shower scene with the lead female. Most of her profile is only shown in silhouette, with only her bare back and a very brief side view of her breasts shown.
  • The main character is asked if she poses nude.
  • A busty woman is offered a beer to flash her breasts. She does not.
  • An attempted rape is almost carried out, but the victim stops struggling and the attacker loses interest. He is clothed. Before he moves away from her, you see her breasts and bare abdomen. He also rubs his hand on her clothed crotch suggestively.

Violence & Gore

  • Someone unexpectedly makes a small cut on another's nape. A little blood is shown.
  • After a man 'rapes' a woman (it looks more like he is humping her leg), she slits his throat. Some blood spurts. He dies a few minutes later.
  • A man burns to death, screaming. You can see his charred body afterwards.
  • After a man has almost entirely sank in thick mire, a woman pushes the last part of his head that is still surfaced, under.
  • A man is killed with a shotgun blast offscreen. Later his corpse is found, with a bloodied face.
  • A man is somewhat-graphically ran over. There is a fairly minimal amount of blood shown.

Profanity

  • Crude gestures are used (the middle finger).
  • A harsh use of f*cking c*nt towards a woman.
  • Usage of religious exclamations, such as god damn.
  • Name-calling (greaseball, and so on), some of which is misogynistic towards the lead female (i.e. broad).
  • Other than the examples in this section, there are uses of shit and fuck sprinkled occasionally throughout. There are a handful of instances of ass/asshole, and even one of two more uses of c*nt (besides the one stated above).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drinking and driving is displayed in the film's opening (though by the antagonists).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Sex & Nudity

  • There is a second rape scene, only this time it is carried out uninterrupted. The attacker demands that the victim lie down, he unzips (you do not see his genitals), and then proceeds to thrust into her. It is not at all graphic, and actually just looks like he is dry humping her leg. He climaxes. Immediately after the act is complete his throat is slit.

Violence & Gore

  • A group of thuggish men have a quick fistfight after their car is ran off the road, and the driver is blamed. It is not brutal or lengthy.
  • An extended scene shows people destroying virtually everything in a man's house, and both the homeowner and his companion are in danger.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This film is likely be to a difficult watch for some who are more sensitive. It revolves around two people who are hoping to share a weekend together, but a group of thugs invade their home and harass them. They are psychologically, physically and sexually abused. This is not easy to watch. That said, there are harsher films out there of this same ilk.
  • There is prolonged threat towards the two main characters. It is unknown just how far their tormentors will go.

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