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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong bloody violence, a scene of violent sexual content, language and some graphic nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man is shown walking fully naked through the snow. His genitalia and his penis are shown.
  • A man performs oral sex on another man under duress. There is limited onscreen nudity during this act; only his bare back is seen. Clips of a very graphic verbal description of this act is interspersed throughout this scene. This goes on at least for a couple of minutes.

Violence & Gore

  • About 90% of the violence is contained to shooting. It's bloody, but it shouldn't be that disturbing
  • This movie is extremely sadistic at times
  • As one would expect from a Tarantino film, there is quite a bit of violence.
  • A woman is seen being punched in the face, elbowed in the face and kicked.
  • A man is shot in the back, however, the gunshot is only heard and no impact wound is seen.
  • Most of the violence in the movie is exaggerated, gunshots cause explosions of blood and heads explode in cartoonish ways. The violence is not realistic at all and is mostly done for comedic effect but it's still somewhat gory.

Profanity

  • "Nigger" is used throughout the film but it is used in a historical context..
  • 21 uses of "fuck", 15 uses of "shit", 18 uses of "hell", 23 uses of "ass", 11 uses of "bastard", 21 uses of "damn", 24 uses of "goddamn", 13 uses of "bitch", 9 uses of "son of a bitch", 2 uses of "Jesus Christ", 2 uses of "Jesus", 1 use of "Christ almighty". And over 50+ uses of the "N" word.
  • 22 uses of "god damn."
  • The word "Motherfucker" is used when a male character Bob closes the door.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • As you would expect from a Tarantino film red apple cigarettes/tobacco is used and spoken about
  • Pipe smoking throughout.
  • A character rolls tobacco into a cigar.
  • Drinking in a few scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Lots of sudden violence
  • Even though Quentin Tarantino's previous movies like Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained have a slight dark tone to them, this is his darkest movie yet.
  • Though the film is very violent, it usually is not portrayed in a frightening or disturbing manner. Sometimes its even shown comedically.
  • Infrequent, strong, gory violence but not exactly disturbing due to the darkly comedic tone
  • During the entire last half of the movie Daisy's face is completely covered in blood and brain matter making her appearance quite menacing.
  • The film constantly has an air of intensity around it and is made to feel very claustrophobic.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A man forces another man to give him oral sex in exchange for a blanket, this is "a scene of violent sexual content" as the MPAA was referring to. The man recounts the story as the scene is shown as a flashback. We see the man on his knees with his head at the other man's crotch, but no nudity is shown. The scene is only about three seconds long, and the actual act is not a part of it.

Violence & Gore

  • In the final scene of the film, a woman is hung by the neck from the ceiling. She can be seen choking and flailing while two men laugh at her. Very disturbing. That being said, the woman is the main antagonist and the audience will have no sympathy for her character.
  • Almost every single character in the movie dies in some brutal, gory way. There are two left alive by the end of the film. Based on the severity of their wounds, it is unlikely that either of these two would survive much longer.
  • A man describes in great detail and takes great pleasure of how he raped and killed a man's son by forcing him to give oral sex buck naked.
  • Daisy kills John Ruth by shooting him in the chest at point blank. Blood graphically spews out of his chest.
  • Some characters ingest poison and vomit lots of blood; this lasts for about a full minute. This is extremely exaggerated.
  • A man is shot in his groin (the impact is not seen) all we see is blood splattering onto the floor and the man screaming in pain. Later he is seen laying on a bed holding his blood soaked genitals.
  • A man's head explode after being shot at with two guns, graphic but cartoonish, done for comedic effect.
  • A man is shot after a heated situation, blood spurts out.
  • Four men enter into a haberdashery and shoot everyone in it. A woman is shot graphically in the face point blank (cartoonish blood spurts), a man gets shot in the chest, two women get shot with graphic results, a man is stabbed in his back repeatedly till he is dead (the shot is somewhat obscured as the action is quick and we do not see the stabbing in closeup) and a man gets shot in the face, happens offscreen but blood splatters all over the snow on the ground.
  • A man is shot in the back of his head and tons of his brain matter and blood are splattered on the face of a woman.
  • A woman hacks off the arm of a dead man whom she is chained to in order to free herself.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene where Major Marquis Warren describes the manner of how he raped a man's son is quite disturbing as the whole encounter shown and he takes great pleasure in describing the act.

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