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(1995)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for grisly afterviews of horrific and bizarre killings, and for strong language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Several references to sex are covered during the movie.
  • A photo of a man, wearing a strap-on with a large sharp blade (where his penis would be). This photo is shown twice.
  • Two characters kiss while in bed. This is brief and not sexual.
  • A character says "masturbating."
  • Lust is one of the 7 deadly sins utilized by the killer.
  • Towards the beginning of the movie, a dead obese man is seen on an autopsy table. His genitals can be briefly seen for about two seconds.
  • Very disturbing scene about lust.there's a dead prostitute strapped to a bed and the details are not seen, but they are verbally graphic.

Violence & Gore

  • Torture is discussed but it is never shown. Also, the aftermath of killings is shown.
  • The violent act in which these victims are killed is not shown. The detective work displays the aftermath of the victims in a grim and gruesome way either on location, in pictures or both. Some of these scenes can be disturbing.
  • A large, obese man's bound corpse is found. It was hinted that the murderer made him eat a lot of spaghetti before kicking him in the stomach and rupturing it off-screen, revealing the gluttony sin.
  • A guy is depicted as having bled to death after being ordered by another man to chop off a pound of flesh off-screen, representing the Greed Sin. Blood is seen spattered on a carpet, and the word "Greed" is written in letters all over the floor.
  • A police officer finds something on a bed that is wrapped in a blanket during a raid. When it is removed, an emaciated guy with veiny, gray skin and marks is shown being confined to a man's bed for a year, slowly starving him to death until an off-screen heart attack kills him, symbolizing the Sloth Sin. The police panic and hurry the guy to the hospital as he chokes on breath, demonstrating that he is still alive.
  • The man who was being interrogated tells of being forced to use a sharpened dildo and have intercourse with a woman while the killer holds the gun and holds him at gunpoint. The woman is tragically stabbed as a result of this (off-screen). Her body is seen later, when the police arrive at the murder scene (the shot is set up such that the guy obscures everything from the camera except her legs).
  • The image shows a woman on a bed with blood all over her. It is revealed that she overdosed on sleeping pills and killed herself (off-screen) after a guy defaced her face by chopping off her nose. When the cops show up at her residence later, her body is seen. The word "Pride" is written in blood on the walls.
  • Two men pursue a murderer through buildings, resulting in gunshots and a soggy street. They encounter the murderer in an alleyway, who hides on a truck and uses a tire iron to strike his face, causing a gash on his eye and temple. The murderer, aiming a pistol at his temple, spares him.
  • A murderer walks into a police precinct and hands himself in. The entire precinct looks at him as he summons the detective. He displays blood spattered on his clothes and the chopping off of his fingertips. He is told to get on the ground by the cops, who then handcuff him. As one of the policemen tries to bind him, blood covers all over his hands.
  • Film for all public.

Profanity

  • Most of the swearing happens in the second half of the movie.
  • 75 "f" words (2 used sexually, 1 with the prefix "mother"), 14 "s" words, 10 hells, 1 slang reference for male genitals ("d*ck") used as an exclamation, 1 ass, 1 damn, and 7 uses of "Jesus" and/or "Christ," 6 uses of "God damn," and 1 use of "God" as exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are seen smoking and drinking.
  • Wine is shown during a dinner table scene

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film has an exceptionally dark theme, story and tone.
  • The film is sometimes very dark and disturbing in terms of violence with various murders related to the thematics of the seven deadly sins
  • None of the murders are shown but you see the aftermath of some of them and it is very brutal. When nothing is shown it is also very disturbing.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A non graphic conversation about a man killing a woman by wearing a strap-on with a blade.

Violence & Gore

  • Two cops handcuff a man and lead him out onto a field. The detective puts the man at gunpoint after the man admits to killing the detective's wife. The detective shoots the man in the head in retaliation despite his companion's pleas for him not to murder him (a drop of blood and mist is visible). After emptying his chamber on the victim's corpse, the man turns to go.
  • An obese man is forced to eat for 12 hours, at which point he becomes unconscious. The killer then kicks the man in the stomach, which ruptures. This event isn't shown, but is later explained.
  • A man is tied to his own bed for a year. This is shown as a jump scare when a police officer shines a light in his face presuming he is dead, only for the man to start coughing, it is later mentioned that he bit off his tongue a long time Ago (offscreen).
  • A model's nose is cut off (not shown). A man then glues a phone to one hand so she could call for help, and a bottle of medication so he could put herself out of her misery. She chooses to put herself out of her misery by ingesting the medication. This isn't shown at all, but is later talked about.
  • A man admits to killing a woman by cutting her head off. The head is placed in a box, and the box is shown, but not the head.
  • A man shoots another man, minimal blood. The scene is also shown from very far away.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man is questioned by police when they discover he killed a woman by using a specially modified harness that uses a blade to kill the woman. He is in shock.
  • The ending is extremely intense, and the hysterical behavior of a major character just makes it more suspenseful.
  • A woman is killed by beheading and her head is delivered to the police in a box. The beheading and the head are not shown. We see a box and then dialogue explains what occurred.
  • A character finds in literary form, a confession to self harm, and it also talks about seven children that were killed. Although nothing is shown, it is still intense.
  • Sloth is easily the most intense sin of all, basically having a man without moving for a year. We see the aftermath of his deteriorated body. Then it is revealed that he ate his own tongue. This is all offscreen.
  • The victim representing lust is killed after she is strapped to a bed and raped by a man, who is forced to wear a knife/strap-on at gunpoint. We only see the dead body of the woman in bed (no nudity) and the man crying after.

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