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(II) (2016)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing violent content, language throughout, crude sexual references, drug and alcohol use - all involving teens.
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Much of the plot is built around a twelve-year-old boy wanting to have some sort of sexual relations with his babysitter.
  • A young teen mentions about how he wants to watch two older teens have sex
  • Two teens talk about how to get girls aroused
  • In the beginning a pre teen boy zooms in on a picture of a woman in underwear a picture on the side shows a topless woman covering her breasts, brief and no nudity.
  • A woman asked her husband if he's "sucked another mans cock before" he replies by saying "not that I recall"
  • During a game of truth or dare, a male character dares another male character to touch a girl's breast, which he does against her will.
  • 17 uses of adult jokes
  • Two teenagers talk in detail about what it would be like to have sex with cartoon girls. They also ask an older teenage girl how many men she's slept with.

Violence & Gore

  • A pistol and a shotgun are pointed at characters in multiple instances along with threats of shooting them.
  • Overall the violence is not very graphic but is more intense and can be found disturbing due to some of the premise(s) of the movie, multiple depictions of blood associated with the violence, but any possible gore is limited to a couple shots of brief injury detail.
  • a guy gets killed by a paint can blood and paint are shown dripping on the floor

Profanity

  • A character survives a stabbing, then looks at the person who stabbed him/her and gives him/her the middle finger.
  • A wife asks her husband if he's sure that he has never "sucked another man's cock."
  • A man mentions to his wife that a group of people are being "cunts" one brief use of the c-word
  • Much of the coarse language used is by a 12 year old
  • 63 uses of "fuck."
  • "Ass" and "asshole" are both used once.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A character smokes weed to "calm down."
  • A character early on says his brother is going to give him weed, the character later smokes it offscreen and is yelled at by another character for doing it inside his house. Shortly after they make another character smoke it once onscreen.
  • A character who is 12 years old drinks from a bottle of champagne in a scene and tells a story of a time he and a friend drank all of it and were throwing up, while an older girl scolds him untill she manages to take it away.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In one scene, two characters are hiding in a closet, and a scary mask is shown with frightening music playing.
  • Although the whole movie is supposed to be dark-humoured, it's still really disturbing and shocking.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Character is hit in the face with a falling paint can, and his face "explodes" (offscreen) on impact; we can see blood mixed with paint dripping down his shoes.
  • A character is slapped, and falls down the stairs in a loud and violent way. The character is then tied up, and tortured.
  • A character is hung by a noose.
  • A child is shot with a shotgun, and then finished off by being shot in the face.
  • A character hits another character in the head with a bat. He recovers and tackles the first character who then stabs his cheek with a pencil. Another character enters and points a gun at him as he gets the bat that he then drops while the first character gets it and hits him again, this time revealing a puddle of blood.
  • A girl is stabbed in the neck with a knife

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Characters tell/threaten another character they are going to frame her with alcohol making it look like she got drunk, they try to force her to drink from it but she prevents this by shattering the bottle on the ground.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A child starts crying and says he want's his mommy before he is shot in the face, the person who shot him in the face starts screaming hysterically and swearing at the dead child and then starts laughing. really disturbing scene.
  • The premise of a mentally ill child torturing and murdering people is really disturbing.
  • A sequence of events during a home invasion leads to a kid and his babysiter getting a gun from his parents room and sets out to scare the man away. During and before this a man wearing a ski mask is seen a couple times with a flashlight and shotgun as they sneak through the house. This is all very tense and suspensful untill the babysiter catches on that it was staged to impress her when the kid was going to "scare away the home invader", who ends up being his friend.
  • A Man Gets Hanged This May Be Frightening To Some Viewers

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