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(1984)

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • Irv Manders gets shot in the arm.
  • A young girl uses her powers to set men on fire on their heads. One is set fire from his arm to all over as he burns to death.
  • A man wakes up with a stick poking him as a man smacks him in the nose. Blood pours out.
  • A man strangles a man on the road.
  • An old man is struck hard in his face after being woken up, killing him instantly.
  • There are several occasions where Andrew is seen with a nose bleed, because using his mind-bending powers make his nose bleed.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some beer drinking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A girl uses her powers to set things on fire.
  • A young girl sets fire on men.
  • A man rolls down to a road and his daughter wakes him up as there a truck almost runs them over.
  • In a flashback, a corpse of a woman is shown.
  • The climax is non-stop intense, unsettling, shocking, convincing, and horrifying.

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Violence & Gore

  • A girl gets shot in the neck with a dart. Her father is shot too. They wake up afterwards. Alive
  • Andrew is shot in the neck.
  • Charlie burns John to death.
  • Andrew follows a trail of blood and discovers his dead wife stuffed in a closet with a bloody rag stuffed in her mouth. She has blood on her finger tips too.
  • A postman is strangled with a rope by Rainbird. He also dies.
  • Captain Hollister is shot through the head, there is a brief shot of blood exiting the back of his head and a shot of him lying on the floor with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Charlie kills at the end.

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